Professional Bio
Kelly Williams Nagel studies visual rhetorics, public memory, and imagination. She examines how genre-bending monuments and public art impact community-building and public memory around the world. She received her MA from Baylor University in 2017, where she studied the intersections between public art, constitutive rhetoric, and identity in the United States and Europe. She served as the Editorial Assistant for Rhetoric & Public Affairs Journal from 2015-2017, as well as in 2020. She has also studied political rhetoric, including the relationship between Joseph McCarthy and Dwight Eisenhower. Kelly has taught sections of CAS 100A and 100C: Public Speaking, and has served as a TA for CAS 175: Persuasion and Propaganda. Her favorite aspect of the Penn State community is meeting students from diverse backgrounds, and helping them manage their fears about public speaking. She is an avid fan of reading fiction and fantasy novels, the first cup of coffee in the morning, watching Cincinnati Reds baseball with her husband, and snuggling with their cat, Frankie.
Advisor: Michele Kennerly
