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Posted On: October 14th 2026, 09:09 pm
Join the Department of English on Tuesday, Oct. 20 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Faculty Club for a lecture by Professor Carolyn Skinner, titled “Receptive, Collective Rhetorical Activity in U.S. Health and Medicine around 1900.”
Skinner explores how reception, the ways audiences take in and respond to rhetoric, reflects, shifts, and maintains people’s worldviews. Drawing on U.S. medical writing from around 1900, including reports on the discovery that mosquitoes transmit malaria, the debate over tuberculosis rates among African Americans, and press coverage of a woman physician’s obscenity trial in Chicago, she considers what this collective activity can teach us about how rhetoric informs individual and group perspectives, decisions, and behaviors.
Inaugural lectures celebrate Arts and Humanities faculty who have been promoted to the rank of professor. Interested in learning more? Check out the link in our bio!
Skinner explores how reception, the ways audiences take in and respond to rhetoric, reflects, shifts, and maintains people’s worldviews. Drawing on U.S. medical writing from around 1900, including reports on the discovery that mosquitoes transmit malaria, the debate over tuberculosis rates among African Americans, and press coverage of a woman physician’s obscenity trial in Chicago, she considers what this collective activity can teach us about how rhetoric informs individual and group perspectives, decisions, and behaviors.
Inaugural lectures celebrate Arts and Humanities faculty who have been promoted to the rank of professor. Interested in learning more? Check out the link in our bio!
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