Rachel E. Silverman

Rachel E. Silverman (Ph.D., University of South Florida) is an Assistant Professor of Communication in the Department of Humanities and Communication at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. Dr. Silverman's research focuses on the intersection of Jewish and LGBT identities in popular media, women's health, and food studies. She is the editor of The Fantasy of Reality: Critical essays on The Real Housewives and co-editor of Communicating Pregnancy Loss: Narrative as a Method for Change (Peter Lang, 2014). Some of her journal publications include:

Silverman, R.E. (2014) Teaching Those Who Teach to Have a Voice: The History and Current Practices of Gynecological Teaching Associate. Journal of Medicine and the Person 12(2) 60-67

Silverman, R.E. (2014) Jewish performativity on Sex and The City, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 26(2) 173-186

Silverman, R. E. & Purnell, D (2014). Barefoot (Contessa) in the Kitchen. Teaching Media Quarterly 2(2) (http://www.teachingmedia.org/?attachment_id=4612)

Silverman, R.E. (2013) Comedy as Correction: Perspective by Incongruity on Will & Grace and Queer as Folk. Sexuality & Culture: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 17(2) 260-274

Gould, M. & Silverman, R. E. (2012) Stumbling Through History: Voice, Memory and the Urban Landscape. GeoJournal 78(5) 791-801