Lisa M. Corrigan

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Lisa M. Corrigan is an American academic. She is professor of communication at the University of Arkansas and also works in the departments for African American Studies and Latino studies, as well as serving as director of the gender studies program.

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Childhood and education

Born in McDonaldsville, Ohio, to a steel-worker father and a nursing home worker mother, Corrigan had a complicated childhood due to constant layoffs in the steel manufacturing industry during her early years. She and her sister were in middle and high school while their mother was taking college classes, and Corrigan remembers the events as having been "really formative because we were going to college with her when we were in junior high school". Precocious as a child, Corrigan recalls reading large amount of books on her own accord and getting into conflict with her teachers due to her intellect and correcting mistakes made by her English teachers. [1]

There were also arguments with her father due to her social justice leanings, even in childhood, conflicting with her father's more conservative viewpoint. However, she found accord and full support from her mother, with them both often speaking of gender equality and sexism. Her mother also supported both sisters attending some form of higher education. To support Corrigan's academic growth, her mother pushed her to join the high school debate team, which she excelled at as a political and academic competition. Her success in the club at national level debate events led to her receiving a scholarship for starting college. [1]

She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in communication and English literature from the University of Pittsburgh. She went on to earn a Master's degree in rhetoric and political communication from the University of Maryland, College Park, before also earning a Ph.D. from the university in the same fields and an additional focus on women's studies. She then accepted a professorship at the University of Arkansas and later became an associate professor. [2]

Career

Published in 2016, the first book that Corrigan released, Prison Power: How Prison Politics Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation, investigated prison memoirs by black activists involved in the 1960s United States civil rights movement. [3] Though this lens, she showed how imprisoned activists used their incarceration to organize their political activities and expressed the rhetoric that would form the black power ideologies. [3] [4] She also discussed in an interview the difficulties of publishing and promoting the book, as reviewers of the pre-publication version, who she noted were predominantly ethnically white, refused to believe the black power movement as influential or important for the civil rights effort. [5]

Her second book was published in 2020 and titled Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties, which references back to the 1960s Black Arts Movement and the 1969 Negro Digest article "We Are Our Feeling: The Black Aesthetic". This piece by Ameer (Amiri) Baraka is used as a jumping-off point to discuss the viewpoint of the self in the black community and how emotions were a part of the Black Power movement and a response to the political and racial violence of the time period. In particular, it analyzed how the movement utilized emotional rhetoric in response to the ideology of "white hope" pushed by the Kennedy administration. [6]

Acting as editor for an essay collection, Corrigan published the book #MeToo: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist in 2021. She also acts as co-host for the podcast Lean Back: Critical Feminist Conversations. [7] Hosted with Laura Weiderhaft, each episode features a single topic, frequently a social topic such as "Shame" and "Vulnerability", and is discussed by both hosts for 30 minutes. [8] The creation of the podcast and its choice of name was decided as a response to Sheryl Sandberg's brand "Lean In" and other related "women's empowerment" brands that were actually "asking women to embrace a white supremacist, sexist, exploitative culture for their own personal gain". [9] It was chosen as one of the best podcasts of 2017 by Paste Magazine . [10] Her third book is tentatively titled Rhetorical Intimacies and will cover the impact of desegregation on political intimacy between the black community and other racial groups. [11]

Awards and honors

For Prison Power, Corrigan was given the 2017 Diamond Anniversary Book Award [12] and the 2017 African American Communication and Culture Division's Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association. Her following book, Black Feelings, was given an honorable mention for the 2021 Marie Hochmuth-Nichols Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Public Address from the same organization. [13]

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References

  1. 1 2 Hightower, Lara (October 8, 2017). "Lisa Corrigan: A Quest for Justice". Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette . Retrieved July 13, 2024.
  2. ↑ "University of Arkansas Scholar Wins Book Award From the National Communication Association". Women In Academia Report . October 16, 2017. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Relevant Books: Prison Power". The Journal of Pan African Studies . 9 (10): 427–443. December 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2024– via ProQuest.
  4. ↑ "Prison Power". C-SPAN . January 8, 2018. Retrieved July 11, 2024.
  5. ↑ Kendi, Ibram X. (January 20, 2018). "Prison Power: A New Book on the Role of Prisons in Black Liberation Struggles". aaihs.org. African American Intellectual History Society . Retrieved July 9, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Gender Studies Director Publishes New Book, 'Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties'". news.uark.edu. University of Arkansas. May 13, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2024.
  7. ↑ Louie, Kaitlin (2021). "Scholarly Interview with Lisa M. Corrigan, Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas on Social Movement and Social Justice Communication". mastersincommunications.com. Master's in Communication. Retrieved July 11, 2024.
  8. ↑ Tolbert, Autumn (August 28, 2019). "'Lean Back' podcast live in Fayetteville and an interview with the hosts". Arkansas Times . Retrieved July 12, 2024.
  9. ↑ Murphy, Jocelyn (March 5, 2021). "How About A Listen? 'Lean Back' with Lisa Corrigan, Laura Weiderhaft". Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette . Retrieved July 12, 2024.
  10. ↑ Jackson, Josh; McCammon, Muira; Techler, Graham (December 29, 2017). "The Best Podcasts of 2017". Paste Magazine . Retrieved July 12, 2024.
  11. ↑ "Honors College Lecture to Explore the Political Side of Intimacy". news.uark.edu. University of Arkansas. February 20, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2024.
  12. ↑ Massey, Kyle (October 11, 2017). "UA Professor Captures Scholarly Book Award". Arkansas Business . Retrieved July 9, 2024.
  13. ↑ "Gender Studies Director Lisa M. Corrigan Awarded Honorable Mention for Top Book Prize". news.uark.edu. University of Arkansas. October 13, 2021. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
  14. ↑ Reviews for Black Feelings:
  15. ↑ Reviews for Prison Power:
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