Kristan Poirot
Assistant Professor
Office: 421 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-2518
poirot@mailbox.sc.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2004
Specialization Areas
- Feminist Rhetorical History
- Rhetorical Criticism
- Gender, Race & Sexuality
Recent Courses
See Course Descriptions for detailed information.
- SCCC 158: Rhetoric (Honors)
- WOST 430: Sexual Subjects
- SPCH 546: Alternative Voices: Rhetoric of the First & Second Wave
- SPCH 741: Rhetorical Criticism
Scholarly Overview
My primary research interests lie at the intersection of feminist rhetorical history and contemporary gender studies/theory. Generally, my work examines feminist rhetorics as those rhetorics construct, maintain, and challenge sex, sexual, and racial differences and identities. My current book manuscript, Feminists Make Sex, explores the role feminism has played in the production of sex difference in the 19th and 20th centuries. In this book, I examination the rhetorics from figures like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, and Rita Mae Brown, as well as pivotal historical conflicts centered on the intersections of sex with race and sexuality. I do so in order to accentuate contemporary theoretical concerns over sex, identity, recognition, and ethics through historically grounded analyses of feminist movement rhetoric.
Works in Progress
- Feminism Makes Sex: Rhetorics of Womanhood, Identity, and Difference
- “Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s One-Sex.” Under Review, Quarterly Journal of Speech
- “Domesticating the Liberated Woman.” Under Review, Women’s Studies in Communication
Publications
- “Mediating a Movement, Authorizing Discourse: Kate Millett, Sexual Politics, and Feminism’s Second Wave.” Women’s Studies in Communication.
- “Evaluating Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Race-Based Pharmacogenomics: A Focus Group Study of Public Understandings of Applied Genomic Medication.” Journal of Health Communication.
- “Review of: Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media Culture.” NWSA Journal.
- “Review of: Joyous Greetings: The First International Women’s Movement.” Quarterly Journal of Speech.