Our guest is Janis L. Edwards, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Alabama where she teaches courses in rhetoric and political communication. Her research interests focus on rhetorical dimensions of media and memory, visual rhetoric, and gender and political communication. Her research has been published in journals such as Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication Quarterly, PS/Political Science and Politics, and Women’s Studies in Communication, and in numerous anthologies. She is the author of Political Cartoons in the 1988 Presidential Campaign: Image, Metaphor, and Narrative (1996) and edited Gender and Political Communication in America: Rhetoric, Representation, and Display, forthcoming, 2009.

We discuss Prof. Edwards’s chapter “Visualizing Presidential Imperatives: Masculinity as an Interpretive Frame in Editorial Cartoons,” in Janis Edwards Ed., Gender and Political Communication in America: Rhetoric, Representation, and Display (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009): in press.