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<div>The Department of English Language and Literature and HeForShe are proud to announce “Nasty Women and Digital Hygiene: Feminism, Risk, and the Purity Myths of Technoculture," a talk by Dr. Elizabeth Losh to take place Tuesday, September 11 at 2PM In PAS
2438. All are welcome to attend. Please share the attached poster with students, colleagues and friends. </div>
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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">Elizabeth Losh is an Associate Professor of English and American Studies at William and Mary with a specialization in New Media Ecologies. Before coming to William and Mary, she directed the Culture, Art, and Technology
Program at the University of California, San Diego. She is a core member and former co-facilitator of the feminist technology collective FemTechNet, which offers a Distributed Open Collaborative Course, steering committee member of HASTAC, and part of the
organizing team of The Selfie Course. She is the is the author of Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes (MIT Press, 2009) and The War on Learning: Gaining Ground
in the Digital University (MIT Press, 2014). She is the co-author of the comic book textbook Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013) with Jonathan Alexander. She is also the author of a forthcoming edited collection
MOOCs and Their Afterlives: Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education from the University of Chicago Press. In addition to recent work on selfies and hashtag activism, she has also written a number of frequently cited essays about communities that
produce, consume, and circulate online video, videogames, digital photographs, text postings, and programming code. The diverse range of subject matter analyzed in her scholarship has included coming out videos on YouTube, videogame fan films created by immigrants,
combat footage from soldiers in Iraq shot on mobile devices, video evidence created for social media sites by protesters on the Mavi Marmara, remix videos from the Arab Spring, the use of Twitter and Facebook by Indian activists working for women's rights
after the Delhi rape case, and the use of Instagram by anti-government activists in Ukraine. Much of this body of work concerns the legitimation of political institutions through visual evidence, representations of war and violence in global news, and discourses
about human rights. This work has appeared in edited collections from MIT Press, Routledge, University of Chicago, Minnesota, Oxford, Continuum, and many other presses.</div>
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<div>With Warm Regards,</div>
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<div>Dr. Frankie Condon</div>
<div>Associate Professor of English Language and Literature</div>
<div>University of Waterloo</div>
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<div>Dr. Frankie Condon</div>
<div>Associate Professor of English Language and Literature</div>
<div>University of Waterloo</div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: center; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Poetry
is not only dream and vision; </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the
f</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">oundations for a future of change, a </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">bridge
across our fears of what has never been before.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center; widows: 1;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 254, 254);">~</span>Audre Lorde.</span></div>
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