Kate Siegfried is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies. She specializes in critical/cultural studies, archival methods, international studies, philosophies of materialism, and social movements, as well as global systems of governance such as imperialism, colonialism, and interstate capitalism. 

Her forthcoming book, Rhetorics of Exile: Emergent Cartographies of Liberation (Ohio State University Press), is supported by funding from the Waterhouse Institute for the Study of Communication and Society at Villanova University, the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan, and the Hammond Fling Faculty Fellowship at UNL. As a transnational archival research project, Rhetorics of Exile demonstrates that though political exile is fundamentally repressive, exiled insurgents leveraged their experiences of displacement and containment as rhetorical resources for engaging in internationally oriented political action. Rhetorics of Exile reveals how seemingly disparate political ruptures that occurred during the second half of the twentieth century demonstrated that a new world system — unencumbered by the hegemonic Cold War narrative of the Eastern Bloc vs. Western Bloc and fundamentally different than the Westphalian interstate capitalist world-economy —was emerging. 

She has also published work on social movements, reproductive justice, Marxist philosophy, Black internationalism, and colonialism in Palestine and Ireland in venues including Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Cultural Critique, Rhetoric, Politics, & Culture, among other rhetoric journals and edited collections. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Rhetoric Society of America.

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