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Faculty Publications

Dr. Melissa Brough peer-reviewed an article, "'Good Social Dr. Pavithra Prasad's recent writings in performance
Media?': Underrepresented Youth Perspectives on the studies and intercultural communication are forthcoming
Ethical and Equitable Design of Social Media Platforms” in two peer-reviewed journals, QED: A Journal of GLBTQ
along with Ioana Literat of Teachers College at Columbia Worldmaking and The Journal of International
University and our very own graduate student Amanda Intercultural Communication Research, and in the book
Ikin, forthcoming in the journal Social Media and Society. De-whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural
In addition, her first book, entitled Youth Power in Communication, and Politics. She was also invited to the
Precarious Times: Reimagining Civic Participation is Yadunandan Center for India Studies at CSU, Long Beach
forthcoming this September from Duke University Press. to give a public lecture, "Hanuman of Wakanda:
Speculative Cartographies from the Deep" based on her
Dr. Gina Giotta contributed two entries––'Mass Society new research on transnational racial formations and
Theory of Media Influence' and 'Technology Development, speculative non-fiction. Her recent creative work "Notes
Influence on Mass Media'––to the recently-published on the Terrestrial Performance of Outer Space" was invited
SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and to be a keynote performance at the Annual Conference on
\ Society (SAGE, 2019), as well as three sidebars––'The South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin.
Census in Nineteenth Century America,' Department
Stores, Remote and Approximate,' and 'The Airbrush'––to Dr. Aimee Carrillo Rowe and Juniper contribute-- 'TCR
Kenneth Cmiel and John Durham Peters' Promiscuous Talks with Maggie Nelson.' to The Coachella Review. In
Knowledge: Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in addition, Aimee Carrillo Rowe contributes an article--'A
History (University of Chicago Press, 2020). Long Walk Home: Decolonizing #MeToo.' to Women and
Language.
Dr. Stephen Heidt has a forthcoming publication--
Resowing the seeds of war: Presidential peace rhetoric Dr. Melissa Tindage co-authors an article-- 'The
since 1945 (Michigan State University Press).Resowing the relationship between college student feedback orientation
Seeds of War argues that presidents articulate new and classroom engagement.' to Communication Research
metaphors at the end of war to describe the enemy, Report.
displacing resonant savage representations, facilitating the This study explored the relationship between the four
transition to peace, and justifying massive financial dimensions of students’ feedback orientation (i.e., utility,
investment in reconstruction. Yet, even as these rhetorical retention, confidentiality, and sensitivity) and the four
maneuvers shift war to peace, they incur unexpected dimensions of students’ classroom engagement (i.e., silent
consequences that ensure national engagement in the next in-class, oral in-class, thinking about course content, and
conflict.
out-of-class) using the tenets of Feedback Intervention
Dr. Jade Huell published an article-- 'Merited or Theory (FIT) as a guide. It was found that varying
Inherited: Doubling Down Meets Call-Out Culture'-- to combinations of students’ feedback orientation influence
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. In addition, students’ engagement, providing further support for FIT.
'Toward Critical Nostalgia: Performing African American Specifically, feedback utility was positively related to all
Genealogical Memory' to Text and Performance Quarterly, four dimensions of student engagement. Furthermore,
forthcoming. feedback confidentiality was negatively related to oral in-
class behaviors.
Dr. Jinah Kim published her book, Postcolonial Grief: The
Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas which
explores the relationship of mourning to transpacific Dr. Kathryn Sorrells co-edits-- Globalizing Intercultural
subjectivities, aesthetics, and decolonial politics since Communication: A Reader with contributing authors Amer
World War II. Kim highlights how the aesthetic and Ahmed, Dr. Melissa Curtin, Dr. Antonieta Mercado, Dr.
creative work of the Japanese and Korean diasporas offers Sheena Malhotra, and Dr. Gust Yep. The reader
new insights into twenty-first-century concerns introduces students to the dynamic, interconnected and
surrounding the state's erasure of military violence and complex nature of intercultural relations in the world
colonialism and the difficult work of remembering histories today communication using empirical case studies and
of war across the transpacific. In addition, she contributed personal narratives.
an article- 'Insurgency of Mourning: Sewol Cross the
Pacific'--to Amerasia Journal.

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