Brooke Covington
Department of English - Center for Sustainability in Education
Assistant Professor
McMurran Hall 201-G
(757) 594-7954
brooke.covington@cnu.edu
Education
- Ph D in Rhetoric and Writing, Virginia Technical Institute and State University
- MA in Writing, Rhetoric and Tech Communication, James Madison University
- BA in English, James Madison University
Teaching
Writing for Civic Engagement, Professional and Technical Writing, Medical Humanities, Rhetorical Theory, Research Methods
Research
Materiality, Rhetorics of Public Memorials and Monuments, Archives, Public Sphere Theory, Rhetorical Theory
Selected Accomplishments
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Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
(2024). “Tell Me a (Counter)Story: Disrupting Dominant Approaches to Narrative(s,) Medicine, Trauma, and Ethics". Vernon Press. -
Book Review
(2024). Book Review: Stuart J. Murray. The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics. The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2022. 207 pages.. Rhetoric Review. Pages, 4 pages. -
Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
(2023). "Centering Counterstories in Anti-Racist Podcasting Pedagogies". Campus Compact/Stylus Publishing. Pages, pp. 135-142. -
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(2023). “You Call It Honor, We Call It Dishonor”: Counterstorytelling and Confederate Monuments in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Community Literacy Journal. Volume, 17. Issue, 2. Pages, pp. 4- 24. -
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(2022). Unpacking the Vernacular Camouflage of Virginia Tech’s April 16th Memorial. Western Journal of Communication/Taylor and Francis. Pages, 31. -
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(2022). "How Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy Does the Body, Or Why Epistemology Alone Cannot Explain this Controversial Breast Cancer Treatment". Journal of Medical Humanities. Volume, 43. Pages, 141-158. -
Journal Article, Academic Journal
(2021). Ars Media: A Toolkit for Narrative Medicine in Writing Classrooms. Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. Volume, 8. Issue, 1. Pages, 22.
- Brooke Covington, "HuMetricsHss Community Fellowship," Sponsored by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation