The Composition, Rhetoric and English Studies (CRES) Program is hosting Dr. Christina Cedillo as the annual Bynum Lecture.

“Centering Corporal and Material Knowledges: Critical Embodiment as Praxis”

While scholars have increasingly taken up “the body” as a focus of critical study, highlighting the corporeal dimensions of knowledge-making, related theoretical concepts may still erase many material differences that characterize individual embodied experiences. In response, critical embodiment centers physical and material experience as a basis for “everyday theory.” Drawing on feminist rhetorics, disability studies, critical race theory, decolonial studies, and critical pedagogy, this presentation uses critical embodiment as an approach to research, writing, teaching, and living that aims to deconstruct ableist whitestream notions of “the body” that perpetuate marginalizing norms.

Christina V. Cedillo (she/they) is Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Houston–Clear Lake. Christina’s research examines embodiment at the intersections of race, gender, and disability. Their work has appeared in CCC, RSQ, and other journals. They are lead editor of the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics.