McNeese Honors College Hosts Alumna for Book Reading 

McNeese State University’s Honors College will be hosting author and alumna, Megan Poole, for a book reading on Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m. in the Stream Alumni Center. This event is free to the public. 

Poole is a McNeese Honors College graduate and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas in Austin. She will be reading from her first book, Listening to Beauty: Stories of the Sea, Sound and Rhetorics of Science, and offering a 20-year Retrospective of Hurricane Rita. The book discusses biologists’ methods of listening in the field and brings into focus the aesthetics of scientific inquiry. 

Poole has co-created an ongoing environmental health literacy project, Air Justice, to make engaging with the science, health effects and law of air pollution easier for public audiences. Her research has also appeared or is forthcoming in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Journal for the History of Rhetoric, Visual Communication Quarterly, Western Journal of Communication and Quarterly Journal of Speech.  

Persons requesting accommodations in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) should contact the Office of Campus Compliance and Civility at least 72 hours before the event. Additional information is available from the Office of Campus Compliance and Civility, located in the Burton Business Center, Suite 407, by phone at 337-475-5428, by fax at 337-475-5603, or by email at compliance@mcneese.edu.