Meditating and Mediating Change: State – Society – Religion Off Campus: Seggau School of Thought 4

Professor of Rhetoric at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, Arizona, USA, where she teachers courses in women and material culture, history and theories of rhetoric, and research methods. Author and editor of eight scholarly books, a textbook, a pedagogical book, and numerous essays, her latest book is Women and the Material Culture of Death (Ashgate, 2013), a collection that examines the compelling and often poignant connection between women and the material culture of death by focusing on the objects maek, the images they keep, the practices they use or are responsible for, and the places they inhabit and construct through ritual and custom. Receipt of numerous awards for teaching and scholarship, Professor Maureen Daily Goggin was the 2015-2016 recipient of a Fulbright Scholar award that brought her to the University of Graz in Austria to teach and do scholarship for summer term 2016..holds BAs in English Language and Literature and Sociology, and an MA in English from the University of Maribor, Slovenia. During her studies, she worked as a nursing home assistant and as a tour guide in a karst cave. Now, she works as a coordinator for the Graz International Summer School Seggau at the University of Graz. Her research interests include Slovene translations of Shakespeare’s plays, stylistics, drama, as well as aging studies.