Allie Rowland

Associate Professor/Maurer Director of Rhetoric and Communication Performance and Communication Arts Department
Allison Rowland
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9290-3615

  • PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder
  • M. Res., University of Bath, U.K.
  • B.S., James Madison University

Research Interests

How do lives come to matter? I have coined the term zoerhetorics to describe the persuasive communicative practices that makes lives important or disposable. I also study reproductive justice, the rhetoric of the human microbiome, and biocitizenship.

I direct St. Lawrence University's nationally-recognized communication across the curriculum program, the Communication Across the Disciplines Fellows. CADF fellows attend the annual Oral Communication Institute to support their integration of speaking assignments into their courses.

Selected Publications

Forthcoming 2023, Covid And...How to Do Rhetoric in a Pandemic, Michigan State University Press.

2022, "Small dick problems: Masculine entitlement as rhetorical strategy." Quarterly Journal of Speech (2022): 1-22.

2020, Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood, Ohio State University Press (New Directions in Rhetoric & Materiality Series). 

  • *Book of the Year Award, Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine, 2021
  • *Honorable Mention, Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award for Outstanding Published Scholarship in Public Address, 2021
  • *Honorable Mention, Rhetoric Society of America Book Award 2021

2017, Allison L. Rowland, “Zoetropes: Turning Fetuses into Babies at the National Memorial for the Unborn.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 47:1.

2017, Allison L. Rowland and Chris Ingraham,  “How Google Street View Became Fertile Ground for Artists,” The Conversation, no. 77845.

2016, Allison L. Rowland, “Life-Saving Weapons: The Biolegitimacy of Drone Warfare.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 19:4.

2016, Chris Ingraham and Allison L. Rowland, “Performing Imperceptibility: Google Street View and the Tableau Vivant.” Surveillance & Society, 14:2.

2014, Allison L. Rowland and Peter Simonson, “The Founding Mothers of Communication Research: Towards a History of a Gendered Assemblage.” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 31:1.

Book/Media Reviews

2023, Allison Rowland, Review of Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupert Marya and Raj Patel, for Rhetoric of Health & Medicine.

2022, Rahel Madeska and Allison Rowland, Review of The Dilemma of Desire, for QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. [*Co-authorship with undergraduate student.]

2019, Allison L. Rowland, Review of Jasbir Puar's The Right to Maim: Ability, Capacity, Disability, Journal of Medical Humanities.

Classes Taught

First Year Program: #Men: Masculinities in Popular Culture

First Year Program: Queer Performances on and off the Stage

First Year Seminar: Speak Up! Rhetoric & Public Speaking

PCA 111, Rhetoric and Public Speaking (sometimes offered at Riverview Correctional Facility)

PCA 250, Research Methods in Performance & Communication Arts

PCA 315, Gender & Communication

PCA 335 Sex Talk

PCA 365 Rhetoric of Algorithms

PCA 370 Against Health: Rhetoric and the Health Humanities

PCA Special Topics: Rhetorical Theory

PCA Special Topics: Rhetoric of Life & Death

PCA Special Topics: Queer Rhetorics

Professional Affiliations

National Communication Association

Rhetoric Society of America

Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine

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