Claire Sisco King

Claire Sisco King is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University, where she is also on faculty in the Cinema and Media Arts Program. A critical cultural scholar of media and visual rhetorics, she is the author of Washed in Blood: Male Sacrifice, Trauma, and the Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2011). She has recently finished a book manuscript on celebrity culture, network studies, and metonymy and is the current editor of Women’s Studies in Communication.