Emily Crosby (ecrosby)

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Associate Professor

James Farmer Hall Room 222
ecrosby@umw.edu
540-654-1365


Emily Crosby in the News

Crosby Publishes in Women & Language

Assistant Professor of Communication Emily Crosby's article "Dethroned Victor: The Marginalized Women of Blake Edwards' Victor/Victoria," published in the fall 2024 issue of Women & Language, revisits the iconic 1982 film to illuminate how the comedic humiliation of archetypal women characters reinstates patriarchy in seemingly progressive texts. This research paper Read more…

Crosby Presents Research on Bro-Country at National Rhetoric Conference

Assistant Professor of Communication Emily Crosby presented her research entitled "It’s Not Just Country Music: The Overlooked Rhetorical Reach of Today’s 'Bro-Country'” at the 2024 Rhetoric Society of America's biennial conference. Coined in 2013 by music journalist Jody Rosen as a “frat-boy beach-bum fantasy" for the "young America white dude,” Read more…

Crosby, Goldman, Johnson-Young Present on Social Media Presentations of Weight, Diet, Nutrition

Associate Professors of Communication, Dr. Adria Goldman and Dr. Elizabeth Johnson-Young, and Assistant Professor of Communication, Dr. Emily Crosby, presented at the Eastern Communication Association's Annual Conference in Cambridge, MA. Their panel, titled "Social Media and the Changing Current of Health Messaging and  Debates," focused on research surrounding discussions of Read more…

‘J-term’ Helps Students Engage, Gain Credits

College students often spend the final weeks of winter break watching movies, playing video games and writing résumés for jobs and internships. Now, a University of Mary Washington offering called the January-term, or “J-term,” allows them to earn college credits for these and other types of activities. Before UMW’s spring Read more…

‘J-term’ Helps Students Engage, Gain Credits

College students often spend the final weeks of winter break watching movies, playing video games and writing résumés for jobs and internships. Now, a University of Mary Washington offering called the January-term, or “J-term,” allows them to earn college credits for these and other types of activities. Before UMW’s spring Read more…
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