As the movement to remove monuments to slaveholders and imperialists from public spaces gains traction, Contested Commemoration (Routledge, June 2020) is a timely collection of essays co-edited by University Writing Program continuing lecturer Melissa M. Bender. The essays raise questions about how well the U.S. has come to terms with the more controversial episodes of its history through commemorative acts. 

Her research interests include writing pedagogy with special interest in rhetorical approaches to disciplinary composition and source work; rhetoric of health and medicine; visual and material rhetoric; the rhetoric of public history; U.S. memoir and life writing.

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