FRANCES YATES PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
Cultural studies, public space, freedom of expression, social construction of taboo, history of literacy, written language practice as a system of cultural authority, symbols and rituals of nationalism, social impact of communication technologies, history of communication technologies.
RESEARCH
Books
Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag. With David W. Ingle. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). Cambridge Cultural and Social Studies, ed. Jeffrey Alexander.
When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988; paperback, 1990); Quando le Vecchie Technologie erano Nuove (Turin: VTET-Libreria, 1995)