Queer Communication Pedagogy

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 pertaining to queer lives in the context of higher education. Using a variety of critical methodological approaches (including dialogic methods, autoethnography, performative writing, and visual methods), each chapter theorizes a queer communication pedagogy, and offers a path toward and innovative ideas about materializing queer communication pedagogy as a disciplinary endeavor.

This book will be of interest to scholars, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduate students in Communication Studies, Critical Communication Pedagogy, Intercultural Communication, Higher Education, Public Pedagogy, and Queer Studies, and Critical/Cultural Studies.

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.