Presentation on writing abstracts
Sample abstracts
Yang, D., Yan, C., Liu, S., Zhang, J., & Hu, Z. (2020). “Splitting tensile strength of concrete corroded by saline soil.” ACI Materials Journal, 117(1), 15-23. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.lib.utexas....
This paper reports the splitting tensile strength of concrete corroded by saline soil. The wet-dry cycle erosion test and splitting tensile test were performed on concrete cubic specimens with six different erosion inspection periods and a solution with the same concentration as the saline soil. The variation of chlorine and sulfate with erosion depth for different erosion inspection periods of corroded concrete, as well as the powder on the concrete within the erosion depth, were analyzed via X-ray diffraction (XRD). Combined with the parallel bar system, corroded concrete specimens were divided into corrosion and non-corrosion parts. Considering the corrosive effect of saline soil on the concrete specimen, the splitting tensile strength model of the corroded concrete in the saline soil area was established and compared with experimental values. The results show that the calculated values of the splitting tensile strength model established herein agreed with experimental values. The splitting tensile strength of concrete gradually decreased with the increasing erosion depth, and the erosion depth gradually deepened with the increasing wet-dry cycle time. This is because CaCO3, ettringite, gypsum, and Friedel’s salts were produced by reacting with concrete in the range of erosion, which resulted in the decrease of splitting tensile strength of concrete.
Dominic Manthey (2020) A Violent Peace and America’s Copperhead Legacy, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 50:1, 3-18, DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2019.1686533
This essay analyzes Union peace activism, commonly called the “Copperhead” movement, to illustrate how anti-war rhetoric during the US Civil War participated in debates over the nature of political violence. While the Copperhead push to end the war failed, the movement was an influential cultural and electoral force, pressuring opponents to modify their views while popularizing a version of national identity that did not end with the advent of Reconstruction. Far from petitioning for peace, the Copperheads’ rhetoric reframed the boundaries of justified violence along intersecting lines of gender, race, and memory. Specifically, I consider how the Copperheads appealed to a powerful “generational” memory built on a gendered interpretation of activism itself, offering a narrative of “manly” resolve meant to withstand the withering effects of their effeminate opponents who threatened the bedrock of an American civilization indebted to a white supremacist system.
Carlson, Jennifer. “Revisiting the Weberian Presumption: Gun Militarism, Gun Populism, and the Racial Politics of Legitimate Violence in Policing.” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 125, no. 3, Nov. 2019, pp. 633–682. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1086/707609.
Focusing on police chiefs in three states, this study revisits the Weberian presumption of the state’s monopoly on legitimate violence. Seventy-nine interviews with police chiefs in Arizona, Michigan, and California allow for an examination of their understanding of gun policy. Analysis reveals that they selectively embrace two frames of the state’s relationship with legitimate violence: gun militarism for criminal gun activity associated with black and brown communities and drug- and gang-related crime and gun populism with respect to lawfully gun-owning Americans, often marked as white and middle class. Sensitive to state-level sociolegal regimes, gun populism takes the form of antielitism in gun-restrictive California, crime-fighting by proxy in gun-permissive Michigan, and co-policing in gun-lax Arizona. The racial politics of legitimate violence intersect with state-level gun policies selectively to erode police chiefs’ investment in the state’s monopoly on violence, demonstrating that gun politics is pertinent not only for understanding violence in the United States but also for understanding the racial complexity of U.S. policing.
Glavey, Brian. “Having a Coke with You Is Even More Fun Than Ideology Critique.” PMLA, Volume 134, Number 5, October 2019, pp. 996–1011 (16)
This essay addresses the recent reception of Frank O’Hara’s poem “Having a Coke with You” to examine the much-maligned concept of relatability as a potentially useful aesthetic category. If the reactions to it on Twitter and YouTube are any indication, O’Hara’s Coke poem has become his most famous piece, immensely popular both online and, in a strikingly different way, in the work of contemporary queer theorists. Whatever the context—queer utopian criticism, an anarchist journal, a wedding ceremony, or even an official Coca-Cola public-relations campaign—readers tend to respond to the poem’s general mood rather than to its specific content. This reception speaks to the fact that O’Hara pursues what I would label a poetics of relatability: “Having a Coke with You,” like many other O’Hara poems, models ways of valuing art by relating it to other things and people. O’Hara explores this relational aesthetic by constantly negotiating between modes of reception that are self-reflective and modes that are social and intersubjective.
Romeo García & José M. Cortez (2020) The Trace of a Mark That Scatters: The Anthropoi and the Rhetoric of Decoloniality, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 50:2, 93-108, DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2020.1714703
The turn to Latin American rhetoric has broadly been galvanized by the need for a politics of difference. Critics have drawn from Latinamericanist theories of decoloniality to mobilize epistemological alternatives to Western forms of knowledge production and to critique the representations of alterity in the Western rhetorical tradition, posing variations of a common question: how to proceed from merely tolerating difference in the Western paradigm of rhetoric to actually theorizing rhetoric from the locus of non-Western (that is, non-logocentric) space? In this essay, we analyze the aporia dredged up by Latinamericanist theories of decoloniality as a prism through which to renew and rethink the terms and conditions of comparativist inquiry. We conclude by setting to work on preparing the non-nostalgic grounds for an alterity yet to arrive under the heading of the X.
Chaturvedi, Madhu, Jagannath Maharana, Arun K. Shukla. “Terminating G-Protein Coupling: Structural Snapshots of GPCR-β-Arrestin Complexes.” Cell, Volume 180, Issue 6. Pages 1041-1043. (19 March 2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.0...
β-arrestins (βarrs) play multifaceted roles in the signaling and regulation of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) including their desensitization and endocytosis. Recently determined cryo-EM structures of two different GPCRs in complex with βarr1 provide the first glimpse of GPCR-βarr engagement and a structural framework to understand their interaction.
Jennifer Lin LeMesurier (2020) Winking at Excess: Racist Kinesiologies in Childish Gambino’s “This Is America”, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 50:2, 139-151, DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2020.1725615
This essay argues that critical rhetorical work on race needs to account for how racist ideas are maintained and enacted via expectations about which kinesiologies are appropriate for which bodies. In the music video “This Is America,” artist Childish Gambino performs the contradictory expectations for Black male embodiment as both hyper-violent and hyper-talented by juxtaposing African and African American dance forms with gun violence. Analysis of this juxtaposition demonstrates how the expectation that the Black body must always remain in motion while in the public sphere creates an atmosphere of ontological exhaustion. These understandings of “appropriate” kinesiologies might be less prominent in discourse but no less influential on understandings of race. As the rhetorical analyst’s own body does not exist outside these societal biases, critical rhetorical analyses that seek to address racial divides should explicitly account for kinesthetic assumptions embedded in performance and viewership.
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