Rachel Hall
Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies
Associate Professor
Rachel Hall studies how visual logics shape our ideas about risk, security, mobility, access, and sustainability. Her current book project, "Natural Feelings: Anthropocene Remorse as a Settler Colonial Aesthetic," traces the recurrent white fantasy of adopting Native perspectives as a way of envisioning continuity with the nonhuman, from the nineteenth century to the present.
View a list of Hall’s published work.
Education
- Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Selected Publications
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“Architectures of Risk and Resiliency: ‘Embedded Security’ and the Redesign of Sandy Hook Elementary School.” Routledge Companion: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture, edited by Swati Chattopadhyay and Jeremy White. New York: Routledge (2019).
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“Expecting the Worst: Active-Shooter Scenario Play in American Schools.” Futureproof: Security Aesthetics and the Urban Imaginary. Durham: Duke University Press (2019).
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The Transparent Traveler: The Performance and Culture of Airport Security. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
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Wanted: The Outlaw in American Visual Culture. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009.
Selected Invited Presentations
- “Automating Injustice.” Monday Night Seminar at the Marshall McLuhan Center, University of Toronto (October 2017).
- “Asymmetrical Transparency: The Global Politics of Risk Management” Securing the Image: Surveillance, Verification and Global Violence (Symposium on Visual Rhetoric), Northwestern University, October 2014.
- “Wanted Dead: On the Refusal to Publicly Display Images of Bin Laden’s Corpse” Featured Speaker, Annual International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference, Indiana State University, 2013.