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Anita August
Anita August focuses her research on the areas of rhetorical visual theory and pedagogy, collective
intelligence communities, feminist visual culture and practices, writing and identity, nineteenth-century
feminist historiography, fairy tale pedagogy and creative writing pedagogy. Overall, her contribution to
rhetoric andwriting studiesisto present an interdisciplinary and rhetorically situated analysis of discourse
in all ofitsformswith a particularfocus on visual persuasion usingAristotle’srhetorical appeals: character
(ethos), reason (logos), and emotions (pathos). Her research, then, investigates vision, visual practices,
visuality, visual literacy, and visual culture in both historical and modern eras. For example, although
visual signs and visual symbols codify meaning and thus create knowledge, her research examines and
theorizes the rhetorical power of visual imagery as discourse. Therefore, she reaches across disciplines
to facilitate a dialogue regarding the social construction of visual imagery as a meaning-making practice
in socio-historical and cultural sites.
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