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Lisa M. Corrigan is a professor of communication at the University of Arkansas who also works in the departments for African American Studies and Latino studies and is director of the gender studies program.

Education

Corrigan graduated with a Bachelor's degree in communication and English literature from the University of Pittsburgh. She went on to earn a Master's degree in rhetoric and political communication from the University of Maryland, College Park before also earning a Ph.D. from the university in the same fields and an additional focus on women's studies.

Career

Published in 2016, the first book that Corrigan released, Prison Power: How Prison Politics Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation, investigated prison memoirs by black activists involved in the 1960s United States civil rights movement. Though this lens, she showed how imprisoned activists used their incarceration to organize their political activities and expressed the rhetoric that would form the black power ideologies. She also discussed in an interview the difficulties of publishing and promoting the book, as reviewers of the pre-publication version, who she noted were predominantly ethnically white, refused to believe the black power movement as influential or important for the civil rights effort.

Her second book was published in 2020 and titled Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties, which references back to the 1960s Black Arts Movement and the 1969 Negro Digest article "We Are Our Feeling: The Black Aesthetic". This piece by Ameer (Amiri) Baraka is used as a jumping off point to discuss the viewpoint of the self in the black community and how emotions were a part of the Black Power movement and a response to the political and racial violence of the time period. In particular, it analyzed how the movement utilized emotional rhetoric in response to the ideology of "white hope" pushed by the Kennedy administration.

Acting as editor for an essay collection, Corrigan published the book #MeToo: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist in 2021. She also acts as co-host for the podcast Lean Back: Critical Feminist Conversations. Hosted with Laura Weiderhaft, each episode features a single topic, frequently a social topic such as "Shame" and "Vulnerability", and is discussed by both hosts for 30 minutes. The creation of the podcast and its choice of name was decided as a response to Sheryl Sandberg's brand "Lean In" and other related "women's empowerment" brands that were actually "asking women to embrace a white supremacist, sexist, exploitative culture for their own personal gain". It was chosen as one of the best podcasts of 2017 by Paste Magazine. Her third book is tentatively titled Rhetorical Intimacies and will cover the impact of desegregation on political intimacy between the black community and other racial groups.

Awards and honors

For Prison Power, Corrigan was given the 2017 Diamond Anniversary Book Award and the 2017 African American Communication and Culture Division's Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association. Her following book, Black Feelings, was given an honorable mention for the 2021 Marie Hochmuth-Nichols Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Public Address from the same organization.

Bibliography

• —, ed. (2021). #MeToo: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist. Taylor & Francis. p. 142. ISBN 9781000523669.
• — (2020). Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties. University Press of Mississippi. p. 238. ISBN 9781496827968.
• — (2016). Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation. University Press of Mississippi. p. 208. ISBN 9781496809100.