Public Scholarships & Publications

Publications

Clayborn, E.A. (2023). Getting some Little Rock history into your summer staycation, Arkansas Times.

Clayborn, E.A. (2020) Regionalist Gaze in Paul Theroux’s Deep South, Southern Communication Journal, 85:3, 166-177, DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2020.1727947.

Clayborn, E.A. (2019). The Death of Alan Berg. in J. Webb (Ed.) Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in American History. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

Clayborn, E.A. (2018, May). “The Myth of Southern Atonement: Constructed Forgiveness in Public Spaces.” [Thesis].
Top American Studies Thesis, National Communication Association Convention, 2019
Top Master’s Rhetorical Thesis, National Communication Association Convention, 2018

Conference Papers

Clayborn, E.A. (2020, November). Of Metonymy and (White) Men. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Indianapolis, IN. (top paper, American Studies Division)

Clayborn, E.A. (2020, November). The <War on Poverty> Ideograph. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Indianapolis, IN.

Clayborn, E.A. (2020, November). Sacred Silences in the American South. Presented at the Religious Communication Association “First Day” Conference, Indianapolis, IN.

Clayborn, E.A. (2020, May). Prophetic to Enter, Poetic to Subvert: Frances E.W. Harper and “Bible Defense of Slavery.” To be presented at Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference, Portland, OR.

Clayborn, E.A. (2020, April). Grist for the Mill of Memory Work: Media Frames and Public Spaces. To be presented at Southern States Communication Association Convention, Frisco, TX. (top paper, American Society for the History of Rhetoric).

Clayborn, E.A. (2019, November). Regionalist Gaze: Poverty Tourism in the American South. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Baltimore, MD.

Clayborn, E.A. (2019, April). Journey to Southern Atonement: A Case Study of the Arkansas Billgrimage. Presented at Southern States Communication Association Convention, Montgomery, AL.

Clayborn, E.A. (2019, March). Corporeal Remembering: Extending Memory Work to the Body. Presented at Southeastern Women’s Studies Association, Oxford, MS.

Clayborn, E.A. (2018, April). Creatures of the Culture That We Create: A Postmodern Perspective of Public Art in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Presented at Southern States Communication Association Convention, Nashville, TN

Book Reviews

Clayborn, E.A. (2020). Ashli Quesinberry Stokes & Wendy Atkins-Sayre, Consuming Identity: The Role of Food in Redefining the South. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016. 231 pp. Southern Communication Journal. DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2020.1781433.

Clayborn, E.A. (2018) Jodi Kanter, Presidential Libraries as Performance: Curating American Character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016; 198 pp. Southern Communication Journal, 83:1, 58-60, DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2017.1398272.