In Stigma Stories: Rhetoric, Lived Experience, and Chronic Illness, Molly Margaret Kessler
focuses on ostomies and gastrointestinal conditions to show how stigma is nearly as central …

Teaching Racial Literacy through Language, Health, and the Body: Introducing Bio-racial
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This essay develops a theory of the visceral imagination by analyzing the first safe sex
manual written in the age of AIDS—How to Have Sex in an Epidemic: One Approach. At the …

This article explores the sensory experience of being in Athens during the plague (430–426
bce). By approaching the ancient epidemic from a perspective of sensory archaeology, we …

ABSTRACT COVID-19 has ushered in controversy and debate over Chinese wet markets,
including calls for their immediate shutdown by major politicians and international figures …

The COVID-19 pandemic shifted relationships between hegemonic sensory perceptions and
disease epistemologies. The affective pedagogies of the COVID-19 sensorium signal …

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced us to consider our relations to the atmosphere, as social
distancing and masking measures focus our attention on how we might limit viral exposure …

Abstract While Louis Pasteur's germ theory functions as one of the foundational concepts of
modern medicine, resistance to COVID-19 prevention measures reveal a rejection not just of …

Critical affect theory continues to hold promise for rhetorical theory and criticism. This article
revisits the so-called affective turn in rhetoric and addresses subsequent critiques of the idea …

Despite significant scholarship on the semiotics and ideology of perfume advertising, its
racialized nature is underexamined. This is surprising given perfume-ad characteristics that …