Joelle Mann is faculty in the Writing Initiative at Binghamton University, where she teaches courses on composition, rhetoric, technical writing, and digital writing. Joelle’s research investigates changing medial tropes and their sociopolitical implications in multimodal literature and writing. Aside from earning her doctorate from Stony Brook University, Joelle also has advanced teaching certifications in Media, Art, and Technology as well as in Cultural Studies. She is on the executive board for the SUNY Council on Writing, and she has published articles in a variety of literary journals, including Critique: Contemporary Studies in Fiction, Children’s Literature, The American Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literature, and Pedagogy and Literary Studies.

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• IntroductionChapter 1Facing the Voices of the Imagetext in Claudia Rankine’s CitizenChapter 2Voices within the Neoliberal Machine in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale KingChapter 3Listening to the Vocal Remix and Surround Sound of Jennifer Egan’s Goon SquadChapter 4Vocal and Comic Deformance in Michael Chabon and Junot DíazChapter 5The M/other Tongues of Michel Cunningham, Joseph O’Neill, and Colum McCann Conclusion

Joelle Mann is faculty in the Writing Initiative at Binghamton University, where she teaches courses on composition, rhetoric, technical writing, and digital writing. Joelle’s research investigates changing medial tropes and their sociopolitical implications in multimodal literature and writing. Aside from earning her doctorate from Stony Brook University, Joelle also has advanced teaching certifications in Media, Art, and Technology as well as in Cultural Studies. She is on the executive board for the SUNY Council on Writing, and she has published articles in a variety of literary journals, including Critique: Contemporary Studies in Fiction, Children’s Literature, The American Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literature, and Pedagogy and Literary Studies.

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• IntroductionChapter 1Facing the Voices of the Imagetext in Claudia Rankine’s CitizenChapter 2Voices within the Neoliberal Machine in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale KingChapter 3Listening to the Vocal Remix and Surround Sound of Jennifer Egan’s Goon SquadChapter 4Vocal and Comic Deformance in Michael Chabon and Junot DíazChapter 5The M/other Tongues of Michel Cunningham, Joseph O’Neill, and Colum McCann Conclusion