Andrew F. Wood is professor and chair of the Department of Communication Studies at San José State University in California.

• IntroductionAndrew F. WoodChapter 1: On the Ruins of a Black Utopia: Moving Memories of Buxton, IowaFaber McAlister and Dylan RolloChapter 2: Communicative Spaces of Abjection: Rust, Ruination, & Renewal in Gary, IndianaAustin D. HestdalenChapter 3: Performing Industrial Heritage in the Ruins of Bethlehem SteelChristopher Lee AdamczykChapter 4: “Today I Found a Rotting Experimental Prison in the Woods”: Re-Assessing Ruins of the Past for the Sake of the PresentEvan R. JonesChapter 5: Restoration Rhetoric and the Ruins of Nauvoo: Creation, Memory, Destruction, and ModernityIsaac James RichardsChapter 6: A Discursive Ruin of Modernity: Exploring Motivations for Dark Tourism at the ColosseumAneilya Barnes and Clay M. CraigChapter 7: Rhetoric of Memories at Alcatraz National Park: Mediated Texts and Experiencing Dark TourismEdwin S. Lee and Nathan J. RuizChapter 8: Manufactured Ruins: Tourism, Comfort Colonialism, and Imperial Nostalgia Within Walt Disney World’s Animal KingdomDerek T. BuescherChapter 9: Ruins, Remembrance, and Pedagogy: Teaching the Topography of TerrorAndrew F. Wood and Tabitha Hart

Andrew F. Wood is professor and chair of the Department of Communication Studies at San José State University in California.

• IntroductionAndrew F. WoodChapter 1: On the Ruins of a Black Utopia: Moving Memories of Buxton, IowaFaber McAlister and Dylan RolloChapter 2: Communicative Spaces of Abjection: Rust, Ruination, & Renewal in Gary, IndianaAustin D. HestdalenChapter 3: Performing Industrial Heritage in the Ruins of Bethlehem SteelChristopher Lee AdamczykChapter 4: “Today I Found a Rotting Experimental Prison in the Woods”: Re-Assessing Ruins of the Past for the Sake of the PresentEvan R. JonesChapter 5: Restoration Rhetoric and the Ruins of Nauvoo: Creation, Memory, Destruction, and ModernityIsaac James RichardsChapter 6: A Discursive Ruin of Modernity: Exploring Motivations for Dark Tourism at the ColosseumAneilya Barnes and Clay M. CraigChapter 7: Rhetoric of Memories at Alcatraz National Park: Mediated Texts and Experiencing Dark TourismEdwin S. Lee and Nathan J. RuizChapter 8: Manufactured Ruins: Tourism, Comfort Colonialism, and Imperial Nostalgia Within Walt Disney World’s Animal KingdomDerek T. BuescherChapter 9: Ruins, Remembrance, and Pedagogy: Teaching the Topography of TerrorAndrew F. Wood and Tabitha Hart

Andrew F. Wood is professor and chair of the Department of Communication Studies at San José State University in California.

• IntroductionAndrew F. WoodChapter 1: On the Ruins of a Black Utopia: Moving Memories of Buxton, IowaFaber McAlister and Dylan RolloChapter 2: Communicative Spaces of Abjection: Rust, Ruination, & Renewal in Gary, IndianaAustin D. HestdalenChapter 3: Performing Industrial Heritage in the Ruins of Bethlehem SteelChristopher Lee AdamczykChapter 4: “Today I Found a Rotting Experimental Prison in the Woods”: Re-Assessing Ruins of the Past for the Sake of the PresentEvan R. JonesChapter 5: Restoration Rhetoric and the Ruins of Nauvoo: Creation, Memory, Destruction, and ModernityIsaac James RichardsChapter 6: A Discursive Ruin of Modernity: Exploring Motivations for Dark Tourism at the ColosseumAneilya Barnes and Clay M. CraigChapter 7: Rhetoric of Memories at Alcatraz National Park: Mediated Texts and Experiencing Dark TourismEdwin S. Lee and Nathan J. RuizChapter 8: Manufactured Ruins: Tourism, Comfort Colonialism, and Imperial Nostalgia Within Walt Disney World’s Animal KingdomDerek T. BuescherChapter 9: Ruins, Remembrance, and Pedagogy: Teaching the Topography of TerrorAndrew F. Wood and Tabitha Hart