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Erika Molloseau Pryor
B.A. from Western Michigan University
M.A. from University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D. from University of Pittsburgh
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Dr. Molloseau Pryor is an Assistant Professor in Communication. She successfully defended her dissertation, "Exhibiting Racism: The Cultural Politics of Lynching Photography Re-Presentations" in August 2007. Her dissertation explores lynching historically in the American south and contemporarily as a culture. The distinct components of lynching culture include: imagery or visual representations of lynching; discourse or the language used by lynching advocate and anti-lynching agitators; and re-presentation including the ways in which lynching imagery and language are used within museum settings; as well as how both language and visual representations are employed to frame contemporary acts of ritual, racial, and mob violence.
Dr. Molloseau Pryor specializes in the areas of Black Popular Culture; Feminist Theory; Masculinity Studies; Racialization and Social Movements; Contemporary Rhetorical Criticism; and the History of Media and Mass Communication.
Dr. Molloseau Pryor teaches COMM 239: Racialized Perspectives of Media; COMM 324: Rhetoric and Citizenship, and COMM 401: Visual Culture.
Prior to coming to Denison, Erika taught at the University of Pittsburgh, LaRoche College, and the Community College of Allegheny County.