Communicating Regional Resilience: Amy Clark

Language carries history. It shapes belonging, signals identity and influences who is heard and how. In the second event of our Communicating Appalachian Resilience series, AppSciComm welcomes rhetorician and scholar Amy Clark for a conversation about Appalachian voice, representation and public storytelling. 

Amy Clark is Professor of Rhetoric and Applied Linguistics at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise and founding Co-Director of the Center for Appalachian Studies. She is the founding director of the Appalachian Writing Project, an affiliate of the National Writing Project. She is co-editor and author of the book Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community (University Press of Kentucky, 2013) and host and producer of the podcast Talking Appalachian. Her writing about the region and its dialects has appeared in the New York Times, Salon,  Oxford American, and Harvard University Press blog. Her third book, which examines the history, rhetoric and performance of "The Cyclone of Rye Cove"…