Fear-Inflected Imaginaries: A Focus on the Rhetorical Force & Function of the Non/Image
Channel: Havens Wright Center for Social Justice
Date: 2022-09-25

A lecture by Adela Licona examining the rhetorical force and function of the "non-image" - pictures we do not need to see but need only imagine - that distort ways of seeing the world - in this case, the immigrant.

Adela C. Licona is Associate Professor of English and Interim Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona. Her research and teaching interests include non/dominant rhetorics, cultural, ethnic, gender, and sexuality studies, social justice media, critical youth studies, community literacies, action-oriented research, borderlands studies, environmental justice, and feminist pedagogy. She is co-editor of Feminist Pedagogy: Looking Back to Move Forward (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) and author of Zines In Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric (SUNY Press, 2012). She has also published in such journals as Antipode, Transformations, Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies, Sexuality Research and Social Policy, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and Critical Studies in Media Communication.