Debra Hawhee, Professor of English, Communication Arts and Sciences, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Jeremy Engels, Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences

Airways: Respiration, Vocalization, Atmospherics

This reading group, co-hosted by the Arnold-Ebbitt Interdisciplinary Rhetoricians (AEIR), will focus on the recent turn within humanistic inquiry towards questions of air–how its differential flow through bodies conditions the processes of cognition, affection, and being, and how its unpredictable circulatory dynamics resemble and/or infold the movements of discourse and other social forces. Our readings will span a number of disciplines (provisionally including classics, religious studies, Black studies, media theory) and culminate in a final symposium in April 2025 that will consist of graduate student presentations of work-in-progress, practice-based workshops, and a keynote panel.