Queer Communication Pedagogy

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.

• Chapter 1 Queer Pedagogy: Story of a Course Chapter 2 Bi and Bi: Exploring the Transgressive Potential of the Bisexual-Biracial Identity in the Queer Classroom Chapter 3 Disrupting Public Pedagogies of Bisexuality Chapter 4 Celebration, Resistance and Change: Queer Gender Performers of Color as Public Pedagogues Chapter 5 Transnational Queer Communication Pedagogy Chapter 6 Transing Communication Education: A Chorus of Voices Chapter 7 Creative Practice as Queer Media Pedagogy Chapter 8 The Queer Act of Talking Sex: Pedagogical Challenges in a Communication Course on Pornography Chapter 9 Fostering an Emerging Queer Consciousness Chapter 10 Hesitant to Walk: Affective Interventions in Queer Communication Pedagogy Chapter 11 Disclosing Lives, Reading Bodies: A Duo-autoethnography of Queerness in the Classroom

"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