Dr. Lisa M. Corrigan is a Professor of Communication and Director of the Gender Studies Program at the University of Arkansas. She has written two books, Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation (University Press of Mississippi, 2016) and Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties (University Press of Mississippi, 2020). Her third book is an edited collection titled: #MeToo: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist and it will be out in July 2021 published by Routledge.

Lisa also co-hosts a popular podcast with Laura Weiderhaft called Lean Back: Critical Feminist Conversations

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lean-back-critical-feminist-conversations/id1084242264

By listening to this conversation with Lisa, you’ll learn about:  

-           Antiblack public policy -           The fantasy of civility -           Communication about power and freedom -           Collective struggle, navigating conflict, and shared power -           Whiteness of the American public speech tradition and how to increase inclusion -           Risk and the roots of speech anxiety -           Persuasion and flexing capital -           Black social protest and violence -           Listening, empathy, and cultural competency as tools of inclusion