Thursday, April 8, 2021
Sabrina Alicia Sgandurra, PhD student and First Person Scholar Editor-in-Chief/Book Reviews Editor, has been awarded the Rhetoric Essay Prize for her essay entitled “Playing with The Virus: COVID-19 and ‘Pandemic-Rhetoric’ in Games” from the Department of English Language and Literature.
The Adjudicator for the award notes, "This timely essay sets out to identify key elements of a “pandemic-rhetoric” at play in both mainstream media and in video games. The author draws on methods of discourse analysis to identify common rhetorical strategies that are mobilized in pandemic-related news and computer games.”
Read the full essay at this link: Rhetoric Essay Prize, PhD - Sabrina Alicia Sgandurra. Read more about the Award itself, here.