My research approach is inspired by David Blakesley’s interdisciplinary method, Greg Ulmer’s MyStory composition mapping, (for a detailed review of Ulmer’s MyStory technique, visit the Book Oblivion Reading Group led …
My Research Approach
My research approach is inspired by David Blakesley’s interdisciplinary method, Greg Ulmer’s MyStory composition mapping, (for a detailed review of Ulmer’s MyStory technique, visit the Book Oblivion Reading Group led by a fellow …
Running Rhetorics
I coined the term “running rhetorics” and created the theoretical framework, that bears the same name, to explore the embodied, rhetorical, and phenomenological everyday lived experience of women runners. This isn’t …
Cacciatore Dissertation Speech
Stacy Cacciatore Dissertation Speech July 2, 2021 4,676 words for 30-minute presentation Thank you all for joining my dissertation defense today on Princesses, Divas, and Mother Runners: Gendered Institutional …

Stacy Cacciatore’s Exam Defense: Speech
<<Slide 1 Opening>> <<Slide 2 Quote>> “No one prepared me for living life as a fat person.” I re-read that statement from Jacqueline Brady several times and reflected on how …


Phenomenology
Phenomenology is the study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view. In qualitative phenomenological research, lived experience refers to a representation of the experiences and choices of a given person, and …
Barr, Liz. “Feminism, Epistemic Authority, and Biomedical Activism
Barr, Liz. “Feminism, Epistemic Authority, and Biomedical Activism.” Feminist Rhetorical Science Studies: Human Bodies, Posthumanist Worlds, Southern Illinois University Press, 2018, pp. 205–226. Barr coins the term “embodied vernacularity” which “accounts …
Jack, Jordynn. “How Good Brain Science Gets That Way: Reclaiming the Scientific Study of Sexed and Gendered Brains
Jack, Jordynn. “How Good Brain Science Gets That Way: Reclaiming the Scientific Study of Sexed and Gendered Brains.” Feminist Rhetorical Science Studies: Human Bodies, Posthumanist Worlds, Southern Illinois University Press, 2018, …