{"id":6679,"date":"2018-12-07T20:43:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T20:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harrington.uri.edu\/?p=6679"},"modified":"2018-12-07T20:43:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T20:43:01","slug":"luanne-roth-joins-writing-and-rhetoric-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/news\/faculty-profile\/2018\/12\/07\/luanne-roth-joins-writing-and-rhetoric-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"LuAnne Roth joins professional and public writing faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Mariana Zardetto Alves &amp; Delaney LePage<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6681 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2164\/Roth_photo_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"289\">LuAnne Roth, Ph.D., joins the professional and public writing department as a senior lecturer. Roth received her doctorate degree in English from University of Missouri, Columbia. She also has a master\u2019s degree in folklore and mythology from the University of California, Los Angeles and a bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology from Augsburg College. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roth comes to the Harrington School after a long stint as an assistant teaching professor of English at the University of Missouri. In 2015, she received the Mary Lago Teaching Award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roth\u2019s research focuses on folklore, film\/media, and food studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFolklore is more than just stories,\u201d said Roth. \u201cIt is about what surrounds us &#8211; our expressions, jokes, the way we dress, the way we act. It is all folklore. It informs all our behaviors.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roth\u2019s work has been published in several journals such as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Western Folklore<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Food, Culture and Society,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as well as in edited volumes including <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Comfort Food Meanings and Memories<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What\u2019s Eating You?: Food and Horror on Screen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roth is working on two new writing projects. She is working on an essay on the 2016 \u201ccreepy clown\u201d panic that ensued on social media, titled \u201cPutting a Face on Fear.\u201d She is also writing a book-length manuscript that is focused on how food is employed as a tool to negotiate race, class and gender in media representations of the Thanksgiving meal, called \u201cTalking Turkey.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mariana Zardetto Alves &amp; Delaney LePage LuAnne Roth, Ph.D., joins the professional and public writing department as a senior lecturer. Roth received her doctorate degree in English from University of Missouri, Columbia. She also has a master\u2019s degree in folklore and mythology from the University of California, Los Angeles and a bachelor\u2019s degree in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1338,"featured_media":6681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-profile"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}