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Cheyenne Zaremba

I am a rhetorician and scholar of death and dying. My research sits at the intersection of embodied experience and culturally informed discourses of death and dying in an attempt to understand the distance between what we say and believe about death and what we actually do and feel at end-of-life.

 

My recent scholarship has focused on the spatial and temporal nature of rural American cemeteries as performers and the visuality of death in the context of postmortem photographs from the late 19th and early 20th century in the context of contemporary representations of death and racial violence.

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I earned my Bachelor's (Roberts Wesleyan College, 2019) and Master's (Villanova University, 2021) in Communication and I am currently working on my PhD (Penn State, 2025 anticipated) in Rhetoric with a graduate minor in Visual Studies. Certified in Communication and Critical/Culture Studies (Villanova University, 2021) and Grief Support Specialization (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2023).

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Visit the Death Scholars website to see more of my involvement with death and dying scholars.

Department of Communication Arts & Sciences, Penn State University, State College, PA
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Publications

As a junior scholar, I am actively pursuing publication for several of my manuscripts. My debut publication, "A Picture of a Good Death: Race, Violence, and Postmortem Photography," was featured in a special issue of Departures in Critical Qualitative Research called Who is a Good Death For?

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If you cannot gain access to any of my publications, email me. I would be happy to provide a copy for reference.

Intellectual Activity

In addition to pursuing publication, I am an active participant in several conferences, most prominently:

  • National Communication Association Conference

  • Eastern Communication Association Conference

  • Rhetoric Society of America Conference

  • International Death, Grief, and Bereavement Conference

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You can find some of my highlighted presentations on my scholarship page. I am more than happy to share manuscripts used for presentation for reference or citation via email.

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I am also a founding member of Death Scholars, an interdisciplinary collective of communication-adjacent scholars of death and dying, and the Death and Dying Division at NCA. 

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