Leslie A Hahner
Biographic Data
| ID | 5594903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie A Hahner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hahner |
| SIGNATURE | HAHNER L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baylor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3944-6689 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Networked conspiracism and autocracy in project 2025
In 2023, the Heritage Foundation published the ninth iteration of the Mandate series, Mandate for Leadership 2025: The Conservative Promise, also known as Project 2025. This book and associated initiatives are a call for what Kevin D. Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, calls “the second American Revolution.” While policy analysts suggest that the governmental and cultural ramifications of Project 2025 would be catastrophic if achieved…
Misogynoir and the public woman
This essay identifies how the very conception of public woman is infused with the opprobrium hurled against a wanton woman – a sexualized figure who has lost claims to moral standing or social worth. Our analysis begins diachronically by using thin description to trace the historical conflation of public woman in general, and Black woman in particular, with prostitute to outline the contours of the trope of public woman that have solidified acros…
We are Not One People
Rhetorical critics have often explored the dualism present in identification. Namely, that identification is intimately linked to division. Coming together involves some undoing of the previous identity; the creation of new material and symbolic connections. While identification has been theorized in the past by Burke, Black, and Ratcliffe, today's scholars of national identity and identification include Khan, Engels, Mercieca, and Stuckey (plus,…
Making Photography Matter
It Follows and Rape Culture
In 2014, the independent horror film It Follows debuted, garnering rave reviews from those who deemed the film subversive. In our view, this subversive potential could be generated from the ways the film explicitly references and counters rape culture. Yet so many critical responses to this film fail to even acknowledge that It Follows portrays or addresses sexual violence. We argue that while the film offers ample opportunity for the audience to…
It’s always more complicated than that”
Research Article| September 01 2015 "It's always more complicated than that": Bruce Gronbeck on Visual Method Leslie A. Hahner Leslie A. Hahner Leslie A. Hahner is Assistant Professor of Communication at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (3): 607–618. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.3.0607 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Link…
Yarn Bombing and the Aesthetics of Exceptionalism
This essay analyzes the international discourses and practices of yarn bombing—affixing knitted and crocheted works on public objects. Yarn bombing has recently become a nearly universally celebrated form of street art. The authors argue that acclaim for yarn bombing fashions an aesthetic regime that situates guerrilla needlework as an exceptional contribution to the urban landscape, while simultaneously policing alternate expressions of public a…
The National Committee of Patriotic Societies and the Aesthetics of Propaganda
This essay analyzes three pedagogical manuals on publicity design published by the National Committee of Patriotic Societies (NCPS) during the First World War. The NCPS represented dozens of nationalistic organizations dedicated to the mission of preparedness. This essay argues that in its publicity guidebooks, the NCPS suggested that propaganda designed with a Republican aesthetic could wed the working class to the war effort. Such advice was pr…
Working Girls and the Temporality of Efficiency
The public circulation of temporal discourse fashions the way in which subjects experience and value their time. At the turn of the twentieth century, experts in systematic management mandated that wage-earning women must be prodded into efficient labor in order to increase the overall yield of industry. Against this regime of time, the narrator of The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, as Told by Herself (1905) subverted the tempora…
Practical Patriotism
Drawing primarily on discourses and events from the period surrounding World War I, this essay examines the methods deployed by Camp Fire Girls and Girls Scouts to recruit the daughters of immigrants and, upon joining, acculturate these new members to the American way of life. The argument begins by analyzing those discourses describing the so-called “new immigrant” from southern and eastern Europe as a threat to national unity. Turning to the wa…
Yarn Bombing and the Aesthetics of Exceptionalism
This essay analyzes the international discourses and practices of yarn bombing—affixing knitted and crocheted works on public objects. Yarn bombing has recently become a nearly universally celebrated form of street art. The authors argue that acclaim for yarn bombing fashions an aesthetic regime that situates guerrilla needlework as an exceptional contribution to the urban landscape, while simultaneously policing alternate expressions of public a…
It Follows and Rape Culture
In 2014, the independent horror film It Follows debuted, garnering rave reviews from those who deemed the film subversive. In our view, this subversive potential could be generated from the ways the film explicitly references and counters rape culture. Yet so many critical responses to this film fail to even acknowledge that It Follows portrays or addresses sexual violence. We argue that while the film offers ample opportunity for the audience to…
It’s always more complicated than that”
Research Article| September 01 2015 "It's always more complicated than that": Bruce Gronbeck on Visual Method Leslie A. Hahner Leslie A. Hahner Leslie A. Hahner is Assistant Professor of Communication at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (3): 607–618. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.3.0607 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Link…
The National Committee of Patriotic Societies and the Aesthetics of Propaganda
This essay analyzes three pedagogical manuals on publicity design published by the National Committee of Patriotic Societies (NCPS) during the First World War. The NCPS represented dozens of nationalistic organizations dedicated to the mission of preparedness. This essay argues that in its publicity guidebooks, the NCPS suggested that propaganda designed with a Republican aesthetic could wed the working class to the war effort. Such advice was pr…
Practical Patriotism
Drawing primarily on discourses and events from the period surrounding World War I, this essay examines the methods deployed by Camp Fire Girls and Girls Scouts to recruit the daughters of immigrants and, upon joining, acculturate these new members to the American way of life. The argument begins by analyzing those discourses describing the so-called “new immigrant” from southern and eastern Europe as a threat to national unity. Turning to the wa…
Working Girls and the Temporality of Efficiency
The public circulation of temporal discourse fashions the way in which subjects experience and value their time. At the turn of the twentieth century, experts in systematic management mandated that wage-earning women must be prodded into efficient labor in order to increase the overall yield of industry. Against this regime of time, the narrator of The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, as Told by Herself (1905) subverted the tempora…
Yarn Bombing and the Aesthetics of Exceptionalism
This essay analyzes the international discourses and practices of yarn bombing—affixing knitted and crocheted works on public objects. Yarn bombing has recently become a nearly universally celebrated form of street art. The authors argue that acclaim for yarn bombing fashions an aesthetic regime that situates guerrilla needlework as an exceptional contribution to the urban landscape, while simultaneously policing alternate expressions of public a…
The National Committee of Patriotic Societies and the Aesthetics of Propaganda
This essay analyzes three pedagogical manuals on publicity design published by the National Committee of Patriotic Societies (NCPS) during the First World War. The NCPS represented dozens of nationalistic organizations dedicated to the mission of preparedness. This essay argues that in its publicity guidebooks, the NCPS suggested that propaganda designed with a Republican aesthetic could wed the working class to the war effort. Such advice was pr…
It’s always more complicated than that”
Research Article| September 01 2015 "It's always more complicated than that": Bruce Gronbeck on Visual Method Leslie A. Hahner Leslie A. Hahner Leslie A. Hahner is Assistant Professor of Communication at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (3): 607–618. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.3.0607 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Link…
It Follows and Rape Culture
In 2014, the independent horror film It Follows debuted, garnering rave reviews from those who deemed the film subversive. In our view, this subversive potential could be generated from the ways the film explicitly references and counters rape culture. Yet so many critical responses to this film fail to even acknowledge that It Follows portrays or addresses sexual violence. We argue that while the film offers ample opportunity for the audience to…
Making Photography Matter
We are Not One People
Rhetorical critics have often explored the dualism present in identification. Namely, that identification is intimately linked to division. Coming together involves some undoing of the previous identity; the creation of new material and symbolic connections. While identification has been theorized in the past by Burke, Black, and Ratcliffe, today's scholars of national identity and identification include Khan, Engels, Mercieca, and Stuckey (plus,…
Misogynoir and the public woman
This essay identifies how the very conception of public woman is infused with the opprobrium hurled against a wanton woman – a sexualized figure who has lost claims to moral standing or social worth. Our analysis begins diachronically by using thin description to trace the historical conflation of public woman in general, and Black woman in particular, with prostitute to outline the contours of the trope of public woman that have solidified acros…
Networked conspiracism and autocracy in project 2025
In 2023, the Heritage Foundation published the ninth iteration of the Mandate series, Mandate for Leadership 2025: The Conservative Promise, also known as Project 2025. This book and associated initiatives are a call for what Kevin D. Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, calls “the second American Revolution.” While policy analysts suggest that the governmental and cultural ramifications of Project 2025 would be catastrophic if achieved…
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