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Stephen Olbrys Gencarella
Male
- solbrys@comm.umass.edu
- Telephone
- (413) 545-3685
- Personal website
- http://www.umass.edu/communication/faculty_staff/gencarella.shtml
- Interests
- Language and Discourse, Performance Studies, Folklore
- Role(s)
- Researcher
Current Institutional Affiliation(s)
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Department of Communication
University of Massachusetts -- AmherstAmherst , MA, United States
Discipline(s)
- Communications
- Rhetoric
Biography
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2003
M.A., Tufts University, 1995
B.A., Providence College, 1993
Author of "Disciplining the Carnivalesque: Chris Farley's Exotic
Dance"; "Money Talks: Folklore in the Public Sphere"; "Seinfeld's
Democratic Vistas"; "Keep Your Keys: Teaching, Democracy, and
Performance Art"; and "The Ivory Tower, Apathy, and the Art of
Citizenship." Current research focuses on the commodification of civil
rights within local tourist practices, and the relationship between
rhetorical theory and cultural critique.