Graduate Student, English
PhD Candidate, Rhetoric
Humanities & Social Sciences
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Andreea Deciu Ritivoi
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About
Broadly, my research focuses on how the relationship between religion and power shows up in language. More specifically, I am interested in the role gender plays at the intersection of identity, religious legitimacy, and institutional power in the context of Roman Catholicism in the United States. In the past, I examined the way abortion functioned in the political rhetoric of American Catholic bishops and activists. Now, my emphasis has shifted to American Catholic sisters, with a particular interest in the contrasting ways that women articulate identity in texts surrounding the recent Vatican-sponsored Apostolic Visitation of Institutes of Women Religious.
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