Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Stephanie Kelley-Romano who teaches rhetorical theory and criticism, wrote her doctoral dissertation on The Myth of Communion: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Narratives of Alien Abductees, in which she drew from 130 interviews with people who believe they’ve been abducted by aliens. One of her conclusions is that people who believe they’ve been abducted have woven a collective myth that acts as a kind of religion.

Professor Kelley-Romano lecturing on Halloween.

A friend peeks out of the doorway of Professor Kelley-Romano's office on the second floor of Pettigrew.

A scene from Professor Kelley-Romano's office.

Professor Kelley-Romano showing one of the pop-up pages in the book modeled off of her doctoral dissertation.

Professor Kelley-Romano poses in her second-floor Pettigrew office which contains a multitude of books and objects depicting aliens and abductees, many of them gifts from current and former students.

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