ABSTRACT

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. 

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

Queering Communication Pedagogy

part I|2 pages

Theorizing Queer Communication Pedagogies

chapter 1|27 pages

Queer Pedagogy

Story of a Course

chapter 2|18 pages

Bi and Bi

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

chapter 4|19 pages

Celebration, Resistance, and Change

Queer Gender Performers of Color as Public Pedagogues

part 2|2 pages

Queering Classroom

chapter 8|15 pages

The Queer Act of Talking Sex

Pedagogical Challenges in a Communication Course on Pornography

chapter 10|18 pages

Hesitant to Walk

Affective Interventions in Queer Communication Pedagogy

chapter 11|16 pages

Disclosing Lives, Reading Bodies

A Duo-autoethnography of Queerness in the Classroom