Dr. Marie Thompson, an associate professor in the Department of Communication, most recent paper was published in “Women & Language” an international, interdisciplinary research periodical, titled “Military Sexual Trauma: Bridging the Chasm between Trauma and Support”. Dr. Thompson is passionate about her research of sexual and reproductive health, and healing in the aftermath of war by examining how stories take up space in the body. In interviews, moments of deep listening, with returned warriors, she examines the invisible affects of traumas they have sustained to help them better understand and communicate those stories. She not only focuses on the returned warrior but their families, which she has given the term “Home Warriors”, by helping them with their own stories of being separated from the warrior.
Dr. Marie Thompson, said in her paper, “An Embodied Inquiry: Listening, Healing and “Supporting our Troops”, “To sit with our warriors is to recognize that the stories of our families and of our communities are the narratives that compose a nation.” As passionate as Dr. Thompson is about her research, she is just as passionate about her students learning experience. Students who take her classes will first have feelings of being overwhelmed by her expectations, but she is with them every step of the way. Her instruction in the reading assignments are, don’t just read it, highlight it, mark it, make notes in the book, become involved with what you are reading. Though the advice isn’t on the syllabus, students gain greater understanding of the material from these invisible valuable lessons in her courses.
Other published articles by Dr. Thompson are, “Who’s Guarding What? A Poststructural Feminist Analysis of Gardasil Discourses”.
