J. Fulmer
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| Gender | Female |
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| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Writer/Researcher, Education Consultant |
| Location | Bay Area, California, United States |
| Introduction | Jacqueline Fulmer, Ph.D., is a Rhetoric Doctor. She can fix what ails your communication efforts, whether you communicate in words, images, or objects. Please e-mail us at hedgescholars@gmail.com if you would like to hear more about what Dr. Fulmer and her colleagues can do to help you with your group's research, presentation, or training needs. |
| Interests | Dr. Fulmer's work addresses how people can speak "through walls" in multiple ways, such as through Popular Culture, Literature, Folklore, Material Culture, and Film. For example, yes, your parent(s) had been trying to tell you something by giving you that White Elephant from Aunt/Uncle Martha or Cousin It. Dr. Fulmer has spent her not-very-long life pursuing answers to the question: --How do people communicate what matters most to them when obstacles block their expression? This has led her to research and tell people about the inner workings of Rhetoric (the study of the means of persuasion), such as: - How to write a serious novel while making people laugh; - How old your grandmother's doll is, how it was made, why it was made like that, how to repair it--and how a doll can tell you things you didn't know about your family; - How mechanical dolls in the Renaissance anticipated the avatars of 21st century online gaming; - How a "charming little story" enables you to tell people things they do not want to hear--and how they will thank you for it! Dr. Fulmer has been interviewed by _The Denver Post_, on the occasion of Mattel's 50th anniversary of their "Ken Doll". She has served as an acquisitions and material culture consultant to the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, CA. She holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley, A Master of Fine Arts (in Fiction and Publishing) from Emerson College, Boston, MA, with additional certification from institutions such as: The Pacific Film Archive, Brown University, and The Bennington Summer Writing Workshop. Dr. Fulmer is the author of the award-winning non-fiction book _Folk Women and Indirection in Morrison, Ni Dhuibhne, Hurston, and Lavin_ (Ashgate 2007). She is currently at work on her second novel and completing a manuscript on material culture studies (_Culture in America_) for University Press of Mississippi. |
| Favorite movies | It is possible for one person to watch _Galaxy Quest_ as intently as _The Tree of Life_. Even in the same evening. Maybe preferably in the same evening. It's possible to laugh as hard at _Shawn of the Dead_ as at _As You Like It_. (I've got a lot of room in my head.) |
| Favorite music | AltRock |
| Favorite books | Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz, Paradise, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength, The Parish and the Hill, The Shelter of Neighbors, The Fairy Midwife and Other Stories, In a Cafe and Other Stories, Mary O'Grady, Native Speaker, The Journey to the West, Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Nice Girls Finish Last, the Chelsea Girl Murders, The Last of the Manly Men, Revenge of the Cootie Girls, What's a Girl Gotta Do? |
You're wearing a sweater that stretches down to your feet. What color belt do you put on?
Black.