I have a zero-time appointment in Art History. A few days ago I was asked to send them a short bio for their graduate student handbook. The copy they sent me to revise essentially reproduced my Department of Communication bio:
rhetorical criticism, rhetorical theory, photography, visual rhetoric, U.S. rhetorical history, U.S. women's rhetorical history, publics theory
The art history grad students here know me as the person who studies photography and asks odd questions about audience during colloquia. All that rhetoric stuff isn't very useful to them. So I revised my bio to this:
history of U.S. visual culture (esp. late 19th and early 20th centuries); photography; communication history; rhetoric; media and politics; relationships between visual culture and print culture
Still true to what I do and who I am, but a slightly different version of me.
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