E Cram, Ph.D. Pronouns: they/them/theirs Department of Communication Studies Department of Gender, Women’s, Sexuality Studies The University of Iowa
117 Becker Communication Studies Building Email: [email protected] Iowa City, Iowa 52242 Phone: (319) 353-2267
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
EDUCATION Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana USA, 2015 Communication & Culture Minors in Gender Studies and Cultural Studies Dissertation: Violent Inheritance: Landscape Memory, Materiality, and Queer Feelings in the Rocky Mountain West
M.A. University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa USA, 2008 Women’s & Gender Studies Thesis: Corpulent Counter-Publics: Radical Cheerleading and Resignification of the Fat Body
B.A. University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming USA, 2006 Sociology, Women’s Studies, Honors Program Certificate
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2020-present Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa USA 2016-2020 Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa USA 2015-2016 Visiting Assistant Professor, Performance and Communication Arts St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York USA 2008-2015 Associate Instructor & Research Assistant, Communication & Culture Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana USA
AREAS OF RESEARCH & TEACHING
Rhetorical Theory & Criticism| Queer & Trans Studies | Environmental & Spatial Humanities | Visual & Material Culture | Affect & Political Emotion
HONORS & AWARDS Monograph of the Year Award, LGBTQ Communication Studies Division, National Communication Association, 2014
Stephen E. Lucas Debut Publication Award, National Communication Association, 2013 November 2020 Cram 2
Top Paper, GLBT Communication Studies Division, National Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, LA, 2011
Top Student Paper, GLBT Communication Studies Division, National Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, LA, 2011
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and the Making of the North American West. Under contract with University of California Press.
EDITED BOOKS Isaac West, E Cram, Frederick Dhaenens, Pamela Lannutti, Gust A. Yep, (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication, under contract Fall 2019.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES & GUEST EDITED ISSUES/FORUMS Guest Editor, Forum: “Queer Trans Culture and Invention Beyond Visibility: Experiencing Cassils,” QED: A Journal in Queer World-Making, 6.1 (2019): 72-130. “Introduction: Prelude to an Encounter,” 72-78.
E Cram,* Melanie Loehwing, John Louis Lucaites. “Protest Photography in a ‘Post-Occupy’ World: Keywords for a Digital Visual Rhetoric of Public Discourse.” Special issue “Digital Rhetoric: Perspectives and Definitions,” Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture, November 22, 2016.
E Cram,* Melanie Loehwing, John Louis Lucaites. “Civic Sights: Theorizing Deliberative and Photographic Publicity in the Visual Public Sphere.” Philosophy & Rhetoric, 49:3 (2016): 227-253. [Lead Essay]
“Archival Ambience and Sensory Memory: Generating Queer Intimacies in the Settler Colonial Archive,” Critical Communication/Cultural Studies 13: (2016): 109-129. [Lead Essay]
“‘Angie Was Our Sister:’ Witnessing the Trans-Formation of Disgust in the Citizenry of Photography.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 98.4 (2012): 411-438. Awarded 2014 Monograph of the Year, LGBTQ Communication Studies Division, National Communication Association Awarded 2013 Stephen Lucas Debut Publication Award, National Communication Association
*senior author, major contribution; **secondary contribution; ***equal contribution; ****minor contribution
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NON-REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES “Feeling a Monumental Midwest: Reflections from Monument Push,” QED: A Journal in Queer World-Making 6.1 (2019): 79-86.
E Cram and Cassils, Queer Conversations. “Cassils: On Violence, Witnessing, and the Making of Trans Worlds,” QED: A Journal in Queer World-Making 6.1 (2019): 117-130.
“Queer Geographies and the Rhetoric of Orientation,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 105:1 (2019): 98-115. (Extended review essay, 10k words)
“Pulse: The Matter of Movement,” QED: A Journal in Queer World-Making, 3:3 (2016): 147- 150.
“Feeling Cartography,” Women’s Studies in Communication, 39:2 (2016): 141-146.
BOOK CHAPTER CONTRIBUTIONS “(Dis)locating Queer Citizenship: Imaging Rurality in Matthew Shepard’s Memory,” Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Queer Studies, ed. Mary L. Gray, Colin Johnson and Brian Gilley (New York: New York University Press, 2016), 267-289.
BOOK REVIEWS Review of Making Photography Matter: A Viewer’s History from the Civil War to the Great Depression, Cara Finnegan. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 48:4 (2018): 432-435.
Review of Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion, Against Equality Collective. QED: A Journal in Queer World-Making, invited 3.2 (2016): 136-138.
Review of Cruel Optimism, Lauren Berlant. Rhetoric & Public Affairs 17.2 (2014): 371-374.
Review of The Civil Contract of Photography, Ariella Azoulay. Argumentation and Advocacy 47.3 (2011): 189-191.
WEB-BASED PUBLIC CONTRIBUTIONS “The Habits of Making Bodies Strange,” No Caption Needed Blog, March 15, 2013.
“Vigils as Witness to Popular Criminal Trials,” invited translation essay for Communication Currents (October 2012). www.communicationcurrents.com
“Seeing Gender in Transition,” No Caption Needed Blog, October 1, 2010.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS “Crimes Against Nature: Queer Ecology and Allegories of the Capitalocene.” Drafting stage.
Transforming Care in the Heartland: The Story of the Johnson County Historic Poor Farm. Book manuscript in early research stages. Archival and Fieldwork Stage.
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Queer Senses and the Aesthetics of Violence. Book manuscript in early research stages. Preliminary fieldwork completed in Omaha, Nebraska and New York City, New York.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED—INTERNAL
Dean’s Microgrant ($1750), College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Competitive. Fall 2020.
Fellow in Residence, Obermann Center For Advanced Studies. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Competitive. Fall 2020.
Book Ends—Obermann/OVPR Book Completion Workshop. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. For completion of manuscript, Violent Inheritance and the Legacy of Sexual Modernity in the Rocky Mountain West (former title). 2018-2019 (competitive).
Old Gold Summer Fellowship ($6000). University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. For book project, Violent Inheritance and the Legacy of Sexual Modernity in the Rocky Mountain West (former title). Summer 2017.
College Arts and Humanities Award ($950). Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Fall 2014 Travel Grant (competitive).
College of Arts and Sciences Travel Grant ($500). Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2013.
University Graduate School Educational Opportunity Fellowship ($1000). Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Fellowship to complete fieldwork for dissertation, Summer 2012.
Indiana University Louise McNutt Fellowship for the Humanities. Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2008-2009.
Unfunded Grants—internal Arts and Humanities Initiative (AHI) Standard Grant for Violent Inheritance and Queer Generation, Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Iowa. ($7,500 unfunded)
INVITED AND PROFESSIONAL LECTURES
Department Virtual Colloquium Research Talk, Department of Communication Arts & Sciences, Pennsylvania State University. Spring 2021.
Response to Keynote, Public Address Conference, Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas. September 2020. (Postponed to September 2021 because of COVID-19.)
“Producing the Alienizing Nation: The Sentimental Politics of Life and Grace Raymond Hebard’s Sacajawea Myth.” Keynote Response, Organization for Research on Women and Communication (ORWAC), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, March 2020. November 2020 Cram 5
“Queering Sexual Modernity in the Rocky Mountain West,” Public Address Conference Plenary. Public Address Conference, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA. Fall 2018.
“Lessons from a Queer West: Rethinking Place and Violence in Flyover Country.” Public lecture for the Omaha Day of Reflection and Action, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. April 8, 2017.
“Engaging the Archive.” Invited Workshop co-presenter (with Prof. Catherine Palczewski, University of Northern Iowa; Prof. Leslie Harris, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. January 28, 2017.
“Of Cake Wrecks, Pizza, and Cascades.” Plenary Response, Texas A&M University Gender and Citizenship Conference. College Station, Texas USA. February 18, 2016.
“Public Writing, Visual Practice and Transgender Politics.” Guest Skype Lecture in Prof. Peter Campbell’s “Writing for the Public,” Department of English, University of Pittsburgh, March 4, 2015.
“‘Isn’t that the Place?’: Geographic Securitization, Queer Senses of Place, and Transformative Feelings after Matthew Shepard.” Department of Communication and Culture Colloquium, Indiana University, September 26, 2014.
COMPETITIVELY SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Decolonizing the Canon,” Round Table Participant, Rhetoric Society of America, Portland, Oregon, May 2020. Conference cancelled because of COVID-19.
“Climate Friction: Nature, Technology, and Sexual Debility in the American 19th Century,” Rhetoric Society of America, Portland, Oregon, May 2020. Conference cancelled because of COVID-19.
“Queer Spaces between Metronormativity and Regionalism,” National Communication Association Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, November 2019.
“Kinship for Survival: Environmentalism Meeting Up with Sexuality Studies,” National Communication Association Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, November 2019.
“Beyond the Great Outdoors: Generating Eros and Earth Attachment with Queer Nature,” National Communication Association, Baltimore, Maryland, November 2019.
“Citation and Survival: Making Sense of Academic Harassment and Citation Practices in the Wake of #MeToo,” Roundtable Chair, National Communication Association Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, November 2019.
“Queer Generation: Temporality and the Confluence of Sexuality and Environment,” Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE), Vancouver, Canada, June 2019. November 2020 Cram 6
“New Materialities, New Mobilities: Retheorizing Place through Embodied and Experiential Differences,” Roundtable Panelist, National Communication Association Convention, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 2018.
“Playing with Judgment: Reflecting on the Rhetorical Legacies of John Louis Lucaites,” Roundtable Panelist, National Communication Association Convention, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 2018.
“Playing with Images: Reflecting on Visual Citizenship and the Scholarship of John Louis Lucaites,” Roundtable Panelist, National Communication Association Convention, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 2018.
“Violent Inheritance Between Carceral Infrastructure,” Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2018.
“Queer Trans Culture and Invention Beyond Visibility: Experiencing Cassils Roundtable,” Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2018.
“Bubble Publics and Geographic Affect in the Age of Trump,” American Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 2017.
“‘Materialize the Spirit of the Thing”: Cartographies of Re/Degeneration in the Making of American Vitality,” National Communication Association Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2016.
“Weaving Witness After Truth and Reconciliation: Remapping Memory with the Ruins of Indian Residential Schools,” National Communication Association Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2016.
“Archival Activism Roundtable,” National Communication Association Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2016.
“The post/decolonial imperative for critical cultural communication scholarship Roundtable,” National Communication Association Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2016.
“The Archive as Rhetoric,” Super-session Panelist, Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2016.
“Generating Regional Intimacies in the Anthropocene: A Call for a Rhetorical Theory Between Identification and Orientation,” National Communication Association Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2015.
“Embracing Opportunities for New Directions in Queer Communication Studies,” Roundtable Panelist, National Communication Association Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2015.
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E. Cram,**** Melanie Loehwing, and John Lucaites. “Communities of Civic Spectators: The Public Rhetoric of Occupy Wall Street’s Digital Protest Photography.” Conference on Community Writing, Digital Media Display, Boulder, CO, October 2015.
E. Cram,* Melanie Loehwing, and John Lucaites “Protest Photography in a ‘Post-Occupy’ World: Keywords for a Digital Visual Rhetoric of Public Discourse.” Indiana University Digital Rhetoric Symposium, Bloomington, IN, April 2015
“Placing Feminist Geographies in the Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Critical-Cultural Studies,” Roundtable Panelist, National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL, November 2014.
“Queer Senses of Seeing: Visuality and Tactility at the Edges of Photography,” National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL. November 2014.
“Re-membering Minidoka: Performing “Affected Persons” as Resistance to the Privatization of Landscape/Memory,” American Studies Association Convention, Los Angeles, CA. November 2014.
“The Impure Politics of Queering Institutions,” Roundtable Panelist, Rhetoric Society of America Conference. San Antonio, TX. May 2014.
E. Cram,* Melanie Loehwing, and John Lucaites “Connecting Photography and the Civic: Reflections on Ariella Azoulay’s Civil Imagination.” National Communication Association Convention. Washington, D.C. November 2013.
“Queer Ecologies and Rhetorical Landscapes: Challenging Metronormativity from ‘the ground.’” National Communication Association Convention. Washington, D.C. November 2013.
E. Cram,** Melanie Loehwing, and John Lucaites. “Simultaneous Actor and Spectator: Images of Camera Technology and Screens in Occupy Wall Street Photography.” American Studies Association Convention. Washington, D.C. November 2013.
E. Cram,* Melanie Loehwing, and John Lucaites “Disturbing Visual Argument: Theorizing Occupy Wall Street’s Public Spectatorship.” Alta Argumentation Conference. Alta, Utah. August 2013.
“Queer Memory and Settler Colonialism in the Lesbian Archive.” Southern States Communication Association Convention. Louisville, Kentucky. April 2013.
“What to Make of SB48?: Prospects and Challenges of Queer Curricular Interventions.” Round Table Panelist. National Communication Association Conference. Orlando, Florida. November 2012.
E. Cram,* Melanie Loehwing, and John Lucaites. “Toward Consideration of a Visual Ontology of Rhetorical Citizenship.” National Communication Association Conference. Orlando, Florida. November 2012. November 2020 Cram 8
“(Dis)placements: Towards a Transcorporeal Ethic of Fat Queer Body Politics.” National Communication Association Conference. Orlando, Florida. November 2012.
“Affect Binds Amidst the Ruins: Photography and Corporeal Citizenship at Heart Mountain.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. May 2012.
“‘Angie Was Our Sister’: Embodied Judgments and the Trans-Formation of Disgust in the Citizenry of Photography.” National Communication Association Conference. New Orleans, LA. November 2011. Winner of Overall & Student Top Paper in the GLBT Communication Studies Division.
“Queer Calamity: (En)Gendering Spatio-Temporalities in Doris Day’s “Calamity Jane.” Western States Communication Association. Monterey, California. February 2011.
“Contesting Space from Range Wars to the New West: Fences and the Mythic Production of Public Lands.” Agrarian Studies Mini-Conference. National Communication Association Conference. San Francisco, CA. November 2010.
“Queer(ing) Rhetorical Studies: Building Bridges between Queer Theory and Rhetorical Studies.” Round table Participant. National Communication Association Conference. San Francisco, CA. November 2010.
“Fat Tactics for a Healthy Democracy: Translating and Transforming Medical(ized) Bodies through Performance.” Popular/American Culture Association Conference, St Louis, Missouri. March/April 2010.
“Regulations of Queer Citizenship: Representing the Rural in Matthew Shepard’s Memory.” National Communication Association, Chicago, Illinois. November 2009.
“Contesting Queer Imaginaries: Queer Publics, Counterpublics, and the Rhetoric of Nostalgia in the Marriage Movement.” National Communication Association, Chicago, Illinois. November 2009.
“Corpulent Counter-Publics: Fat Politics and Stretching the Discursive Economy.” National Communication Association, San Diego, California. November 2008.
RESEARCH SEMINAR PARTICIPATION Midwest Winter Workshop in Rhetorical Studies. University of Illinois. February 2020.
“Queer Archival Immersion: Rhetoric, Performance, Pedagogy, and Politics at the Kinsey Institute.” Seminar co-facilitator (with Prof. Chuck Morris, Syracuse University; Prof. Eric Darnell Pritchard, University of Illinois; Prof. K.J. Rawson, College of the Holy Cross). Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, May 2017.
“Rhetoric/Violence.” Workshop participant. Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute. May, 2017.
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Midwest Winter Workshop in Rhetorical Studies. University of Iowa. January 2017.
“Connecting Textual Criticism and Field Work,” National Communication Association Seminar. Washington D.C., November 2014.
National Communication Association Doctoral Honors Seminar. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, July 2012.
“Queering Rhetorical Criticism.” Workshop Participant. Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, June 2009
PUBLIC SYMPOSIA “Challenges to Academic Freedom,” Panelist. Out There: A Symposium on Provocative Research, Pedagogy, and Academic Freedom. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, March 2019.
PEDAGOGY
TEACHING
University of Iowa, Assistant Professor, 2016-present Graduate Seminars Place, Power, and Public Culture, F2019 Rhetoric of the Body, S2019 Queer Geographies, F2017
Undergraduate Courses GWSS 2046/COMM 2045: Gender, Sexuality, and Space, F2016, S2017, F2018, S2019, F2019, S2021* COMM 2054: Movements, Protest, Resistance, F2018, S2020 COMM 4168: Rhetoric of the Body, S2018, S2020, S2021* COMM 4157: Outlaw Bodies, F2016, S2017
Additional Courses Graduate Independent Study: Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, S2019
*Taught online during COVID-19
St. Lawrence University, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2015-2016 PCA 111: Introduction to Rhetoric & Public Speaking, F2015 PCA 127: Introduction to Communication, F2015, S2016 PCA 4046: Outlaw Bodies, F2015 PCA 4046: Civic Media in a Digital Age, S2016
Indiana University, Associate Instructor, 2008-2015 C334: Outlaw Bodies: Intersections of Criminalization, S2014 November 2020 Cram 10
C323: Speech Composition: Public Intimacies, F2011, S2012 C205: Introduction to Communication & Culture, F2010, S2011 C324: Persuasion: Rhetoric, Ideology, & Citizenship, F2009, S2010 C121: Public Speaking, F2008, S2009, SU2012, F2013, S2015
GRADUATE ADVISING AND MENTORSHIP
Doctoral Advisees
Student Name Years Outcome Berkley Conner 4 POS (F18), CE (S20), PD (F20) Morgan DiCesare 2 POS (S20) Dan Stanfield 2 POS (anticipated F20) Kristiana Báez 1 PD (anticipated S21)
Committee Membership
Ace Eckstein POS (S17) alea adigweme MA (S18) Hannah Johnson* DD (F18) Tyler Snelling POS (F18), CE (S20) Kristiana Báez POS (S19), CE (S20) Micki Burdick POS (F19) Andrew Boge POS (F19), MA (S20)
POS= Plan of Study CE=Comprehensive Exam PD=Prospectus Defense DD=Dissertation Defense MA=Master’s Exam *=Second Reader of Dissertation
Research Supervision
Tyler Snelling, Research Assistant (SU18) Dan Stanfield, Research Assistant (SU20)
Graduate Teaching Supervision Michelle Flood Gender, Sexuality, and Media (S20) Chenthu Jayachandiran Intercultural Communication (F17)
SERVICE
TO THE PROFESSION Editorial Boards § Women’s Studies in Communication, 2019-2020 § Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 2018-2020 § Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2017-2020 § QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking, 2015-present
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Ad-Hoc Journal Manuscript Reviewer § Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition, 2019x1 § Women’s Studies in Communication, 2018 x1 § Southern Communication Journal, 2016 x1 § Transgender Studies Quarterly 2014 x1 § QED (2014 x1, 2015 x1), then joined board Editorial Assistance § Book Review Editorial Assistant, Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Ilana Gershon, editor. 2013-2015 § Editorial Intern, Quarterly Journal of Speech. John Louis Lucaites, editor. 2009- 2010. Reviewer for Professional Awards § External Reviewer, Folsom Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award, University of Nebraska Lincoln, 2016 § Dissertation of the Year Award, NCA Visual Communication Division, 2015 Professional Organization Committee & Division Leadership § Chair of Nominating Committee, Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division, 2015-2016. Convention Paper Reviewer § Environmental Communication Division, 2020 § Public Address Division, 2020 § Critical/Cultural Studies Division, 2018, 2019 § Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division, 2017, 2018, 2019 § Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Communication Studies Division, National Communication Association, 2012, 2013 § American Studies Division, National Communication Association, 2010
TO THE DEPARTMENT § Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, 2019-present § Undergraduate Affairs Committee, 2017-2019
TO THE UNIVERSITY § One Iowa LGBTQ Health Conference Programming Committee, with University of Iowa School of Public Health and University Hospitals, 2019- 2020 § University of Iowa Digital Studio Scholars Steering Committee, 2018-2019 § Public Speaking Liaison, Indiana University Advance College Project, 2014 § Graduate Representative to the Faculty and President/Vice President of the CMCL Graduate Student Association, Indiana University, 2010-2012 § Post/Post-Transsexual Conference, Steering Committee and Volunteer Coordinator. With Susan Stryker, Indiana University, April 2011.
TO THE PUBLIC § Co-facilitator, Transverse, Iowa City, Iowa 2018 § Bloomington PRIDE Film Festival Steering Committee, 2009-2013 § National LGBTQI Health Summit Volunteer, Indiana University, July 2011 November 2020 Cram 12
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & SCHOLARLY AFFILIATIONS
Professional Development Faculty Success Program, National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity, 2017
Scholarly Affiliations National Communication Association Rhetoric Society of American American Studies Association