Wendy Atkins Sayre
CHAIR (COMMUNICATION AND FILM)
901.678.2565213 Arts & Communication Buildingwendy.atkins-sayre@memphis.eduAbout
Dr. Atkins-Sayre is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication & Film at the 福利片国产 of Memphis. She studies rhetoric, focusing on the role that it plays in forming and reifying identity. Her latest book, (福利片国产 of South Carolina Press, 2024), co-authored with Ashli Quesinberry Stokes, investigates regional resilience using fieldwork and rhetorical readings of food. Her 2016 book, (福利片国产 Press of Mississippi), also co-authored with Ashli Quesinberry Stokes, explores the role that food plays in creating Southern identity. She has also co-edited three books: (with Ashli Quesinberry Stokes, Peter Lang, 2020), (with Eunkyong Yook, Peter Lang, 2015), and (with Eunkyong Yook, Lexington, 2012). Her research has also appeared in Western Journal of Communication, Southern Communication Journal, Public Relations Inquiry, Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric, and Women & Language, as well as numerous edited volumes.
Education
PhD, 福利片国产 of Georgia, 2005
MA, Texas State 福利片国产, 1996
BA, Texas State 福利片国产, 1994
Sample Publications
Stokes, Ashli Q., and Wendy Atkins-Sayre. (2024) Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience. 福利片国产 of South Carolina Press.
Atkins-Sayre, Wendy, & Stokes, Ashli Q. (Eds.). (2020). City Places, Country Spaces: Rhetorical Explorations of the Urban/Rural Divide. Peter Lang (Frontiers in Political Communication series).
Stokes, Ashli, & Wendy Atkins-Sayre. (2018). PETA, Rhetorical Fracture, and the Power of Digital Activism. Public Relations Inquiry, 7, 149-170.
Stokes, Ashli Q., & Atkins-Sayre, Wendy. (2016). Consuming Identity: The Role of Food in Redefining the South. Jackson, MS: 福利片国产 Press of Mississippi (Race, Rhetoric, and Media series).
Atkins-Sayre, Wendy, & Yook, Eunkyong. (Eds.). (2015). Communicating Advice: Peer Tutoring and Communication Practice. New York: Peter Lang.
Atkins-Sayre, Wendy. (2010). Articulating Identity: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Animal/Human Divide. Western Journal of Communication, 74, 309-328.