Daena J. Goldsmith, professor of rhetoric and media studies at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, might be this year’s Gravlee Lecturer. The 2019 lecture, “Personal and Political: Blogging Motherhood and Autism,” will be held inside the Lory Student Center Theater on Wednesday, Feb. 13, at 6:30 p.m., with a reception to follow. It is provided using the Department of Communication Studies.
Goldsmith’s lecture will deal with how non-public testimonies instructed online tackle political import. The identity comes from the name of her modern-day e-book challenge, wherein she makes a case for the individual and cultural importance of the “mother blogs” she has tracked during the last decade, from boom to bust.
Goldsmith’s studies suggest how some blogs that commenced as non-public memories for an intimate community ended up enticing publicly with culturally contested ideas about motherhood and autism.
“These case research yield insights into the rhetorical and socio-technical functions that make these blogs, in my opinion, pol, critically significant, even as also raising questions about the sustainability of this form of online advocacy,” she says.
Scholarship
Goldsmith’s scholarship specializes in how patterns of verbal exchange create identities, relationships, and groups. Her teaching covers more than a few topics, which include fitness narratives, the rhetoric of gender, social media, and research methods. Her award-winning e-book, Communicating Social Support, examines how we talk and guide each other via normal stresses and lifestyle crises.
Goldsmith has been recognized with the National Communication Association’s Gerald R. Miller Book Award, Bill Eadie Distinguished Scholarly Article Award, and Franklin H. Knower Article Award. In 2017, she changed into presented the Lorry Lokey Faculty Excellence Award. She is a Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative member and has consulted with the Portland Art Museum’s artNOW application.
Her works are posted in the Journal of Communication, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Social Science & Medicine, Communication Monographs, Human Communication Research, and Journal of Applied Communication.
The Gravlee Lecture Series honours G. Jack Gravlee, chair of the Department of Communication Studies from 1975 to 1985. Gravlee retired from CSU in 2004. The lecture collection brings eminent conversation scholars to campus for a keynote presentation and interaction with students, faculty, and the college network.
