essays and reviews
Cara A. Finnegan, review of Mick Gidley, The Grass Shall Grow: Helen Post Photographs the Native American West (University of Nebraska Press, 2020), Great Plains Quarterly 42.1-2 (Winter-Spring 2022): 163.
Caitlin Frances Bruce and Cara A. Finnegan, "Visual Rhetoric in Flux: A Conversation," Rhetoric & Public Affairs 24.1-2 (2021): 89-108.
Cara A. Finnegan, "Revealing the Visual Logics of Sensational News," review of Amanda Frisken, Graphic News: How Sensational Images Transformed Nineteenth-Century Journalism (University of Illinois Press, 2019), Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 20.1 (Jan. 2021): 196.
Cara A. Finnegan, review of Jane Aspinwall & Keith Davis, Golden Prospects: Daguerreotypes of the California Gold Rush (Yale University Press, 2019), Western Historical Quarterly 51.4 (2020): 470-71.
Cara A. Finnegan, "Read Before Archiving," Journal for the History of Rhetoric 23.1 (2020): 107.
Cara A. Finnegan, review of Tanya Sheehan, Study in Black and White: Photography, Race, Humor (Penn State Press, 2018), Journal of American History 107.3 (Dec. 2020).
Cara A. Finnegan, "The Daguerreotype, Republican Style, and Theories of the Public Image," Explorations in Media Ecology 17.4 (2018): 459-64 .
Cara A. Finnegan, "The Critic as Curator," Rhetoric Society Quarterly 48.4 (Sept. 2018): 405-10.
Cara A. Finnegan, review of Laurie Gries, Still Life With Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics (Utah State Press, 2015), Quarterly Journal of Speech 103.4 (2017): 415-18.
Cara A. Finnegan, review of Sharon Ann Musher, Democratic Art: The New Deal's Influence on American Culture (Chicago, 2015), Journal of American History 103.1: 243.
Cara A. Finnegan, "Slave Photographs in Lincoln." Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 18.1 (2015): 129-34.
Cara A. Finnegan and Marissa Wallace, "Origin Stories and Dreams of Collaboration: Rethinking Histories of the Communication Course and the Relationships Between English and Speech," Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 44.5 (2014): 401-426.
Cara A. Finnegan and Anita J. Mixon, "Art Controversy in the Obama White House: Performing Tensions of Race in the Visual Politics of the Presidency," Presidential Studies Quarterly, 44.2 (June 2014): 244-66.
Cara A. Finnegan, "Picturing Presidents: Visual Politics Inside the Obama White House." In The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency, eds. Jennifer Mercieca and Justin Vaughn (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2014), 209-34.
Jiyeon Kang and Cara A. Finnegan, "Gross Iconoclasm," Argumentation and Advocacy (Winter 2013): 228-230.
Cara A. Finnegan, review of Carol Quirke, Eyes on Labor: News Photography and America's Working Class (Oxford, 2012), American Historical Review 118.4 (2013): 1202-1203.
Cara A. Finnegan and John M. Murphy, "Introduction: Lincoln's Rhetorical Worlds." Rhetoric & Public Affairs (Fall 2010): 343-47.
Cara A. Finnegan, "Studying Visual Modes of Public Address: Lewis Hine's Progressive Era Child Labor Rhetoric." In The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address, eds. MIchael Hogan and Shawn J. Parry-Giles (London: Blackwell, 2010), 250-70.
Cara A. Finnegan, review of Amy Louise Wood, Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), Southern Communication Journal 75.5 (2010): 527-30.
Cara A. Finnegan, Review of Kate Sampsell-Willmann, Lewis Hine as Social Critic (University Press of Mississippi, 2009), Rhetoric & Public Affairs 13.4 (2010): 741-45.
Cara A. Finnegan, Review of Richard Steven Street, Everyone Had Cameras: Photography and Farmworkers in California, 1850-2000 (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), American Historical Review (Oct. 2010): 1170-71.
Cara A. Finnegan, Review of Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites, No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 40 (Winter 2010): 94-97.
(for more, see the full CV)
Caitlin Frances Bruce and Cara A. Finnegan, "Visual Rhetoric in Flux: A Conversation," Rhetoric & Public Affairs 24.1-2 (2021): 89-108.
Cara A. Finnegan, "Revealing the Visual Logics of Sensational News," review of Amanda Frisken, Graphic News: How Sensational Images Transformed Nineteenth-Century Journalism (University of Illinois Press, 2019), Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 20.1 (Jan. 2021): 196.
Cara A. Finnegan, review of Jane Aspinwall & Keith Davis, Golden Prospects: Daguerreotypes of the California Gold Rush (Yale University Press, 2019), Western Historical Quarterly 51.4 (2020): 470-71.
Cara A. Finnegan, "Read Before Archiving," Journal for the History of Rhetoric 23.1 (2020): 107.
Cara A. Finnegan, review of Tanya Sheehan, Study in Black and White: Photography, Race, Humor (Penn State Press, 2018), Journal of American History 107.3 (Dec. 2020).
Cara A. Finnegan, "The Daguerreotype, Republican Style, and Theories of the Public Image," Explorations in Media Ecology 17.4 (2018): 459-64 .
Cara A. Finnegan, "The Critic as Curator," Rhetoric Society Quarterly 48.4 (Sept. 2018): 405-10.
Cara A. Finnegan, review of Laurie Gries, Still Life With Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics (Utah State Press, 2015), Quarterly Journal of Speech 103.4 (2017): 415-18.
Cara A. Finnegan, review of Sharon Ann Musher, Democratic Art: The New Deal's Influence on American Culture (Chicago, 2015), Journal of American History 103.1: 243.
Cara A. Finnegan, "Slave Photographs in Lincoln." Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 18.1 (2015): 129-34.
Cara A. Finnegan and Marissa Wallace, "Origin Stories and Dreams of Collaboration: Rethinking Histories of the Communication Course and the Relationships Between English and Speech," Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 44.5 (2014): 401-426.
Cara A. Finnegan and Anita J. Mixon, "Art Controversy in the Obama White House: Performing Tensions of Race in the Visual Politics of the Presidency," Presidential Studies Quarterly, 44.2 (June 2014): 244-66.
Cara A. Finnegan, "Picturing Presidents: Visual Politics Inside the Obama White House." In The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency, eds. Jennifer Mercieca and Justin Vaughn (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2014), 209-34.
Jiyeon Kang and Cara A. Finnegan, "Gross Iconoclasm," Argumentation and Advocacy (Winter 2013): 228-230.
Cara A. Finnegan, review of Carol Quirke, Eyes on Labor: News Photography and America's Working Class (Oxford, 2012), American Historical Review 118.4 (2013): 1202-1203.
Cara A. Finnegan and John M. Murphy, "Introduction: Lincoln's Rhetorical Worlds." Rhetoric & Public Affairs (Fall 2010): 343-47.
Cara A. Finnegan, "Studying Visual Modes of Public Address: Lewis Hine's Progressive Era Child Labor Rhetoric." In The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address, eds. MIchael Hogan and Shawn J. Parry-Giles (London: Blackwell, 2010), 250-70.
Cara A. Finnegan, review of Amy Louise Wood, Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), Southern Communication Journal 75.5 (2010): 527-30.
Cara A. Finnegan, Review of Kate Sampsell-Willmann, Lewis Hine as Social Critic (University Press of Mississippi, 2009), Rhetoric & Public Affairs 13.4 (2010): 741-45.
Cara A. Finnegan, Review of Richard Steven Street, Everyone Had Cameras: Photography and Farmworkers in California, 1850-2000 (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), American Historical Review (Oct. 2010): 1170-71.
Cara A. Finnegan, Review of Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites, No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 40 (Winter 2010): 94-97.
(for more, see the full CV)