Rachel Hall
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Studies
136 Coates Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, Louisiana State University, 2006-present.
Visiting Professor, Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University 2005-2006.
Education
Ph.D. and M.A., Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004.
B.A., English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996.
Books
Wanted: The Outlaw in American Visual Culture. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009.
Refereed Publications
“Of Ziploc Bags and Black Holes: The Aesthetics of Transparency in the War on Terror.” The Communication Review 10:4 (2007).
“Patty and Me: Performative Encounters Between an Historical Body and the History of Images.” Text and Performance Quarterly 26:4 (2006).
“Missing Dolly, Mourning Slavery: The Slave Notice as Keepsake.” Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies 61 (2006).
“It Can Happen to You: Rape Prevention in the Age of Risk Management.” Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy 19.3 (2004).
“Tenderness: A Mediation in Six Parts.” Co-authored with Della Pollock. The Theater Annual: A Journal of Performance Studies 55 (2002).
Book Chapters
“Of Ziploc Bags and Black Holes: The Aesthetics of Transparency in the War on Terror.” In The New Media of Surveillance, edited by Shoshana Magnet and Kelly Gates. New York: Routledge, 2009.
Recent Conference Presentations
“Disappearing Service: The Circulation of Postmortem and Portrait Photographs of U.S. Military Personnel.” American Studies Association, Washington, DC November 2009.
“Performing Innocence: From Presidential Rhetoric to Vernacular Rituals of Mourning.” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL November 2007.
“The Body and the Archive of Confiscated Stuff.” Carnal Knowledges Visual Culture Symposium, George Mason University, March 2007.
“Performing Capture: Ritual Realism in the Wanted Poster.” National Communication Association, San Antonio, TX November 2006.
“Virtual Security: Reading the State Department’s Blueprint Man.” National Communication Association, San Antonio, TX November 2006.
“Performing the Wanted Poster: Beyond Surveillance and Spectacle.” National Communication Association, Boston, MA November 2005.
“Niche Remembering: Patty Hearst in Public Memory.” Contesting Public Memories Conference, Syracuse University October 2005.
“Tracking Instrumental Realism: Word and Image in the Wanted Poster.” International Association of Word and Image Studies, University of Pennsylvania September 2005.
Invited Presentations
“Forms of Memory: Carrie Mae Weems and Memory.” Contesting Public Memories Conference, Syracuse University, October 2005.
Teaching Experience
Louisiana State University (Fall 2006-present)
Graduate Seminars
Visual Culture, Performance and Culture
Undergraduate Courses
Visual Rhetoric, Surveillance and Culture, Forms of Memory, Performance in Everyday Life, The Art of Protest.
Syracuse University (Fall 2005-Spring 2006)
Visual Rhetoric, Visual Culture, Gender and Communication, and Rhetoric of the Family Album
Duke University Center For Documentary Studies (Fall 2004)
Keeping Family
University of North Carolina (Summer 1997- Spring 2004)
Media Criticism, Social Theory and Cultural Diversity, Gender and Communication
Editorial Experience
Editorial Board, Critical Studies in Media Communication, (2006- present)
Assistant Curator, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, (Spring 2005)
Associate Editor, Journal of Cultural Studies, (2001-2002)
Assistant Editor, Journal of Cultural Studies, (1997- 2001)