ASU Professor Speaks at International Conference

Release Date: Apr 22, 2016

An ASU professor of communications recently presented her research during
the Popular Culture Association’s annual conference.


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[image: DAUFIN]Rev. Dr. E-K Daufin, an Alabama State University professor
of communication, recently presented research on “Fat Black Women, Pop
Culture and Impact” at the Popular Culture Association (PCA) annual
conference. The conference, which drew participants from around the world,
was held on March 22-26 in Seattle, Wash.

Daufin joined scholars from Canada, Norway and the U.S. in a discussion
about the international stigma against higher weight women and explored the
experience of higher weight gay men. She currently is writing a book about
the representation of black women in the media according to a model of
unearned privilege and social effect.

Daufin, who also is a spoken word artist, performed a special poem titled
“Only Women Bleed” during the conference. The performance was sponsored by
the PCA Poetry Area and the research presentation by the PCA Fat Studies
Area. She joined prominent national poets in performing “Embodied Poetry,”
which is poetry that addresses the human body and its relation to the human
condition.

A native New Yorker, Daufin has been listed by the Alabama Arts Council
Traveling Artists, is a founding member of the Central Alabama
Storytellers’ Guild, and is the co-founder of the Southeast Poetry & Jazz
Connection.  She regularly performs with the ASU Language and Literature
Department students in their semi-annual Poetry on the Steps event, held in
or in front of the Levi Watkins Learning Center.

“I love performing with the students,” Daufin said, “Not only does it
humanize me in their eyes, but we share a spiritual and creative bond that
is ‘icing on the cake’ of the classroom connection.”

As a national expert on ending media and cultural weight stigma, Daufin has
appeared on CNN and has a strong online presence in the health at every
size and fat activism communities.

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Know Justice; Know Peace,
Rev. Dr. E-K. Daufin
Professor of Communications
Alabama State University
National Media Size Equity Expert
Winner -- 2000 MaryAnn Yodelis-Smith
  Research Award AEJMC CSW
AEJMC MAC Membership Chair
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