If these Winship walls could talk.

Doctoral candidate Katelyn Wood’s paper has been named to the “Top Paper Panel” for the Western States Communication Association Performance Studies Interest Group. The convention will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico in February 2012.

Katelyn holds a B.A. from Illinois State University in Communication Studies and Gender Studies and has an M.A. from Rhetoric and Language at UT. Her thesis examined the integration of humor and comedic performances into Black feminist rhetoric. Her research interests include humor as a rhetorical act, the construction and performance of public memory, performance ethnography, and feminist and queer performance history.