Rachel Hall Associate Professor Communication Studies Louisiana State University 136 Coates Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Phone (225) 578 4240 Email: rchall@lsu.edu POSITIONS HELD Associate Professor, Louisiana State University, Fall 2012 present. Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University, Fall 2006 Spring 2012. Visiting Assistant Professor, Syracuse University, Fall 2005 Spring 2006. EDUCATION Ph.D. and M.A., Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004. B.A., English, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1996. BOOKS The Transparent Traveler: The Performance and Culture of Airport Security. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. Wanted: The Outlaw in American Visual Culture. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. ARTICLES Letting the Object of Study Lead: A Cultural Studies Ethic, Text and Performance Quarterly 34:1 (2014): 113-114. Unwitting Performances of Transparency: Monitoring the Traveling Public, Managing Airport Affect. Performance Research 16:2 (2011): 97-104. Cleared for Takeoff: Air Passenger Efficiency Training in the Post-9/11 Era. SAFE: Special Issue of Women s Studies Quarterly 39:1&2 (2011): 315-327. Of Ziploc Bags and Black Holes: The Aesthetics of Transparency in the War on Terror. The Communication Review 10:4 (2007): 319-346. 1
Patty and Me: Performative Encounters Between an Historical Body and the History of Images. Text and Performance Quarterly 26:4 (2006): 347-370. Missing Dolly, Mourning Slavery: The Slave Notice as Keepsake. Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies 61 (2006): 70-103. It Can Happen to You: Rape Prevention in the Age of Risk Management. Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy 19:3 (2004): 1-19. Tenderness: A Meditation in Six Parts. Co-authored with Della Pollock. The Theater Annual: A Journal of Performance Studies 55 (2002): 61-107. BOOK CHAPTERS Terror and the Female Grotesque: Introducing Full-body Scanners to US Airports (Feminist Surveillance Studies, edited by Shoshana Magnet and Rachel Dubrofsky, forthcoming from Duke University Press). Of Ziploc Bags and Black Holes: The Aesthetics of Transparency in the War on Terror. Reprinted in The New Media of Surveillance, edited by Shoshana Magnet and Kelly Gates. New York: Routledge, 2009. GRANTS Stranger Danger and other Paradigms of Child Safety in American Educational Films of the 20 th Century. Manship Humanities and Social Sciences Summer Research Grant, Louisiana State University ($9000), Summer 2011. Performing Transparency in the Age of Insecurity. ATLAS Grant ($45, 762), June 2009- June 2010. America s Most Wanted. COR Summer Stipend, Louisiana State University ($5000), Summer 2008. SELECTED INVITED PRESENTATIONS Asymmetrical Transparency: The Global Politics of Risk Management Securing the Image: Surveillance, Verification and Global Violence (Symposium on Visual Rhetoric), Northwestern University, October 2014. Transparency Chic: The Art of Performing Consumer and Suspect Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University, October 2014. Featured Speaker, Annual International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies 2
Conference, Indiana State University, September 2013. Wanted Dead: On the Refusal to Publicly Display Images of Bin Laden s Corpse Uncertain Knowledge: Practices, Media & Agents on (Non-)Affirmation in 19th- and 20th- Century American History, German Historical Institute, Washington DC, October 2011. Forms of Memory: Carrie Mae Weems and Memory. Contesting Public Memories Conference, Syracuse University, October 2005. EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE Editorial Board, Southern Communication Journal (2014-present) Editorial Board, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (2013-present) Editorial Board, Western Journal of Communication (2012-present) Editorial Board, Critical Studies in Media Communication (2006-present) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Expecting the Worst: The Routine Performance of School Shooting Drills National Communication Association, Chicago November 2014. The Aesthetics of Transparency: Risk Management as a Way of Seeing National Communication Association, Chicago, November 2014. From the Theaters of the War on Terror to the Stages of Homeland Security: The Rhetorics, Aesthetics, and Technologies of Preemptive Warfare and Law Southern States Communication Association, April 2014. Unwanted: Anthropomorphizing and Personifying Introduced Species as Criminals with Matt Chew Environmental History, San Francisco, March 2014. Citizens of Tomorrow versus the Dangerous Stranger: The Production of Public Space in Mid-Century American Child Safety Films Society for Cinema & Media Studies, Boston MA, March 2012. Stranger Danger and other Paradigms of Child Safety in American Educational Films of the Twentieth Century National Communication Association, New Orleans, November 2011. The Becoming Woman of the Passenger: Introducing Full-body Scanners to U.S. Airports Society for Cinema & Media Studies, New Orleans LA, March 2011. 3
The More You Know, The More You Show: Transportation Security Pedagogy American Studies Association, San Antonio TX, November 2010. Unwitting Performances of Transparency: Monitoring the Traveling Public, Managing Airport Affect, Performance Studies International, Toronto, June 2010. Disappearing Service: The Circulation of Postmortem and Portrait Photographs of U.S. Military Personnel American Studies Association, Washington DC, November 2009. Performing Innocence: From Presidential Rhetoric to Vernacular Rituals of Mourning. National Communication Association, Chicago, IL November 2007. The Body and the Archive of Confiscated Stuff. Carnal Knowledges Visual Culture Symposium, George Mason University, March 2007 and the National Communication Association Convention, San Antonio, TX November 2006. Performing Capture: Ritual Realism in the Wanted Poster. National Communication Association, San Antonio, TX November 2006. Virtual Security: Reading the State Department s Blueprint Man. National Communication Association, San Antonio, TX November 2006. Performing the Wanted Poster: Beyond Surveillance and Spectacle. National Communication Association, Boston, MA November 2005. Niche Remembering: Patty Hearst in Public Memory. Contesting Public Memories Conference, Syracuse University October 2005. Tracking Instrumental Realism: Word and Image in the Wanted Poster. International Association of Word and Image Studies, University of Pennsylvania September 2005. Outlaw Displays: The Public Face of Private Detection. National Communication Association, Chicago, IL November 2004. Let s Play Prisoners : Media, Performance and Cultural Identity. Crossroads in Cultural Studies, University of Illinois June 2004. A Meditation on Tenderness. Performance Studies International, Mainz, Germany March 2001. Materializing Fear: The Discursive Force of Rape in Women s Lives. International Communication Association Convention, San Francisco, CA May 1999. Identity Matters: Fear in the Discourse of Women s Safety. National Communication Association, Chicago, IL November 1997. 4
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Louisiana State University Graduate Seminars: Visual Culture Performance and Culture Historiography Undergraduate Courses: Intro to Visual Culture Technologies of Memory Critical Surveillance Studies Performance and Everyday Life The Art of Protest Syracuse University Graduate Seminar: Visual Culture Undergraduate Courses: Visual Rhetoric Gender and Communication Rhetoric of the Family Album Duke University Center For Documentary Studies Keeping Family University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Media Criticism Social Theory and Cultural Diversity Gender and Communication 5