79th Annual Convention of the
Southern States Communication Association


Norfolk, Virginia April 1-5, 2009

Student Presenters: Anita Mixon, Coley Ray, and Lateshia Beachum
Faculty Presenter: Jason Munsell

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

CC Presentations:

Anita Mixon, “Fantasy Impersonating Reality or Reality Impersonating Fantasy?  Critical Study of Indian Film.”
Coley Ray, “Knitting Gender Through Talk and the Internet:  An Ethnography of the Stitch ‘n Bitch.”
Lateshia Beachum, “The Boondocks, ‘The N***a Moment,’ and the Limits of Satire.” *Lateshia’s paper won the Franklin Shirley Award for the top undergraduate paper at the conference!
Jason Munsell, “Speech Hygiene, Speech Personality, and the Rhetoric of Citizenship.”