Transnationalizing Critical Intercultural Communication: Legacy, Relevance, and Future: 31

Calls for a transnational turn within critical intercultural communication by considering the ideas of nation-state and citizenship through theoretical frameworks developed by non-U.S.-scholars and transnational scholars within U.S. academia. Topics include global cultural disparities and transnational oppressive cultural and political structures.

Ahmet Atay (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University-Carbondale) is Professor of Global Media and Communication at the College of Wooster. His research focuses on diasporic experiences and cultural identity formations; 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; representation of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in media; queer and immigrant experiences in cyberspace, and critical communication pedagogies. He is the author of Globalization’s Impact on Identity Formation: Queer Diasporic Males in Cyberspace (2015) and the co-editor of several books. His scholarship appears in a number of journals and edited books.

Shinsuke Eguchi (Ph.D., Howard University) is Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico. Their research interests focus on global and transcultural studies, queer of color critique, intersectionality and racialized gender politics, Asian/American studies, and performance studies. They are the author of Asians Loving Asians: Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics (Peter Lang, 2022). Their recent solo-authored and co-authored work will appear or has appeared for publication in Communication, Culture, and Critique, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Review of Communication, Western Journal of Communication, Women’s Studies in Communication, and Journal of Homosexuality. They are co-editor with Satoshi Toyosaki of Intercultural Communication in Japan (2017), coeditor with Bernadette Marie Calafell of Queer Intercultural Communication (2020), and coeditor with Bernadette Marie Calafell and Shadee Abdi of De-Whitening Intersectionality (2020). They are also book review editor of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking.

Gloria Nziba Pindi (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University) is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at California, State University San Marcos (CSUSM). Her research interests focus on critical intercultural communication, Black/Transnational feminism, performance studies, and auto/ethnographic methods. She attempts to examine various parameters that impact the performance of the self in transnational contexts around issues of globalization, migration, and identity negotiation with a critical approach to social justice. Her work has been featured in Cultural Studies <> Critical Methodologies, Review of Communication, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, Women’s Studies in Communication and Women & Language.