

McCann’s teaching and scholarship draw heavily on his involvement with community andĬampus advocacy efforts concerning the prison-industrial complex, organized labor,Īcademic freedom, campus climate concerns, and other social justice issues. Many contemporary discourses regarding sexual violence. Project that analyzes the carceral, heteronormative, and anti-black logics that mobilize Working with his colleague and collaborator Ashley Noel Mack, McCann is pursuing a Political, popular, and artistic appropriations of serial killer Ted Bundy. One examines efforts by the white radical left to appropriateīlack aesthetic practices during the Depression era. Presently, McCann is pursuing three separate book projects that share a common emphasis Of Speech, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly. He is the author of The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era (University of Alabama Press, 2017), as well as numerous scholarly essays that haveĪppeared in journals such as Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Communication,Ĭulture, and Critique Critical Studies in Media Communication Quarterly Journal He also serves as affiliate faculty in African and African American Studies, as well as Women's and Gender Studies. Movements, crime and public culture, intersectionality, the politics of citizenship, He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in argumentation and debate, social Studies, performativity, rhetorical studies, social movements, and whiteness studies. Studies, critical university studies, cultural studies, hip-hop studies, masculinity McCann is a cultural critic whose research and teaching interests includeīlack studies, crime and public culture, critical affect studies, critical prison PhD: The University of Texas at Austin (2009)īryan J. Master's Degree: Illinois State University (2004)

McCann Associate Professor - Rhetoric & Cultural StudiesĪffiliate Faculty, African and African American StudiesĪffiliate Faculty, Women's and Gender Studiesīachelor's Degree(s): Illinois State University (2002)
