Friday Speaker Series: Blake Cravey

Blake Cravey is a rhetorical scholar interested in transdisciplinary approaches to criticism. Blake is concerned with investigating forms of relationality and their rhetorical construction, with particular emphasis on what he has come to call a properly rhetorical concept of love. He is committed to understanding how rhetorical texts produce, reproduce, and disrupt dominant pedagogies and possibilities of what love is, can be, does, and could possibly do sociopolitically. Through this exploration, Blake seeks to articulate how certain rhetorics of love wield the capacity to reconfigure our understanding of the relational dynamics of love, loss, politics, and community.