240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

This book addresses queer issues and current events from a communication perspective to articulate a queer communication pedagogy. Through putting communication pedagogy and queer studies into dialogue, the book investigates how queer theory and critical communication pedagogy intersect in pedagogical spaces. The chapters identify institutional and educational barriers, oppressions, and issues... Read more

Introduction: Queering Communication Pedagogy

Theorizing Queer Communication Pedagogies

Chapter 1

Queer Pedagogy: Story of a Course

Karen E. Lovaas and Mercilee M. Jenkins

Chapter 2

Bi and Bi: Exploring the Transgressive Potential of the Bisexual-Biracial Identity in the Queer Classroom

Stephanie L. Young

Chapter 3

Disrupting Public Pedagogies of Bisexuality

Jessica A. Johnson

Bernadette Marie Calafell

Chapter 4

Celebration, Resistance and Change: Queer Gender Performers of Color

as Public Pedagogues

Krishna Pattisapu

Chapter 5

Transnational Queer Communication Pedagogy

Ahmet Atay

Queering Classroom

Chapter 6

Transing Communication Education: A Chorus of Voices

Jamie Capuzza, Leland G. Spencer, Thomas J Billard, E. Tristan Booth, matthew heinz, Sarah Jones, and Lucy Miller

Chapter 7

Creative Practice as Queer Media Pedagogy

Katherine Sender

Chapter 8

The Queer Act of Talking Sex: Pedagogical Challenges in a Communication Course on Pornography

Andrew R. Spieldenner and Jahnasia J. Booker

Chapter 9

Fostering an Emerging Queer Consciousness

Benny LeMaster

Chapter 10

Hesitant to Walk: Affective Interventions in Queer Communication Pedagogy

Kathryn Hobson

Chapter 11

Disclosing Lives, Reading Bodies: A Duo-autoethnography of Queerness in the Classroom

Colin Whitworth and Anna Wilcoxen

Biography

Ahmet Atay (Ph.D. Southern Illinois University- Carbondale) is Associate Professor of Communication at the College of Wooster. His research revolves around cultural studies, media studies, and critical intercultural communication. In particular, he focuses on diasporic experiences and cultural identity formations of diasporic individuals; political and social complexities of city life, such as immigrant and queer experiences; the usage of new media technologies in different settings; and the notion of home. He is the author of Globalization’s Impact on Identity Formation: Queer Diasporic Males in Cyberspace (2015) and the co-editor of 9 books. His scholarship appeared in number of journals and edited books.

Sandra L. Pensoneau-Conway (Ph.D. Southern Illinois University- Carbondale) is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her teaching and research interests include critical communication pedagogy, communication and identity, and automethods. Recent publications include a co-edited book, Doing Autoethnography, a co-edited special issue of Communication Teacher (critical communication pedagogy) and essays in QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking, Critical Education, and the book The Discourse of Disability in Higher Education.

"The great benefit of this work is its attention to the ways in which critical communication pedagogy and queer theory can be unified to create a new pedagogical paradigm, a responsive pedagogy about communication, difference, and praxis." --David H. Kahl, Jr. Penn State Erie, The Behrend College