Poirot, Kristan
individual record
Associate Professor
Positions:
- Associate Professor, Communication, College of Liberal Arts
- Associate Professor, Women & Gender Studies, College of Liberal Arts
overview
Dr. Kristan Poirot engages the concerns of contemporary feminist theorists, rhetoricians, and historians by examining the circulation of sex, gender, and race identifications in U.S. contexts that span from the nineteenth century onward. In her work, Poirot examines number of different rhetorical sites to better understand the situatedness of these identifications. She pays particular attention to social movement rhetorics and public memories about resistance and white heteronormative male supremacy. Her focus on place and context enables a feminist intervention that grapples with both the conceptual and material entailments of sex, gender, and racial disparity.
education and training
- Ph.D. in Speech Communication, University of Georgia - (Athens, Georgia, United States) 2004
- M.S. in Speech Communication, Southern Illinois University Carbondale - (Carbondale, Illinois, United States) 2000
- B.S. in Speech Communication, Southern Illinois University Carbondale - (Carbondale, Illinois, United States) 1999
selected publications
Academic Articles3
- Dubriwny, T. N., & Poirot, K (2017). Gender and Public Memory. Southern Communication Journal. 82(4), 199-202.
- Bates, B. R., Poirot, K., Harris, T. M., Condit, C. M., & Achter, P. J (2004). Evaluating direct-to-consumer marketing of race-based pharmacogenomics: a focus group study of public understandings of applied genomic medication.. J Health Commun. (6),
- Poirot, K (2004). Mediating a Movement, Authorizing Discourse: Kate Millett,Sexual Politics, and Feminism's Second Wave. Women's Studies in Communication. (2),
Books1
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awards and honors
- Arts and Humanities Fellowship conferred by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) - Division of Research 2015
recent teaching activities
- AFST425 Rhetoric Civil Rights Instructor
- AFST689 Sptp: Gender & Black Resistanc Instructor
- AFST689 Sptp:black Freedom Movements Instructor
- COMM203 Hnr-public Speaking Instructor
- COMM203 Public Speaking Instructor
chaired theses and dissertations
- Ziemer, Jordan Allen (2016-08). "Entrepreneurs of the Church World": Investigating Intersections between Enterprise Discourse and the Occupational Identity of Church Planters. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Riley, Catherine Lorelei (2015-12). The Rhetoric of Homiletics: Preaching, Persuasion, and the Cappadocian Fathers. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Lockhart, Eleanor Amaranth (2015-08). Nerd/Geek Masculinity: Technocracy, Rationality, and Gender in Nerd Culture's Countermasculine Hegemony. (Doctoral Dissertation)
Email
poirot@tamu.edu
First Name
Kristan
Last Name
Poirot
mailing address
Texas A&M University; Communication; 4234 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4234
USA