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Prof. Worthington’s scholarly work centers on the rhetoric of memory, particularly in historically dense settings. His writing includes essays and book chapters about the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis), Disney Theme Parks, the documentary film, “Memories of the Camps,” and the rhetorical functions of Nostalgia, Hauntology, and the juxtaposition of magnitude and scale as rhetorical framing(s). In his talk at Furman next week, Prof. Worthington will discuss the history of memory as a rhetorical necessity and the ways that we might understand memory in the contemporary milieu. He will propose a way to invite memory (and forgetting) into the discourse of rhetorical criticism as he reads the National Memorial for Peace and Justice as a particular audience.