Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier

Contributors

Contributors Bernadette Marie Calafell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Denver. She is the author of Latina/o Communication Studies:Theorizing Performance and co-editor (with Dr. Michelle A. Holling) of Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces: Somos de Una Voz? in 2009 she was awarded the Lilla A. Heston Award for outstanding Research in oral interpretation and Performance. Karma R. Chávez is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is co-founder (with Eithne Luibhéid) of the queer Migration Research network (www.queermigration.com), and author of several articles on feminism, queer theory and politics, migration, and social movements. Chávez’ book manuscript, Queer/Migration Politics:Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities, is currently under review at a university press. Josue David Cisneros is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at northeastern University. His research and teaching explore the relationships between rhetoric, identity, and citizenship, and/in US public culture, especially with regard to race and migration. His scholarship has appeared in journals such as Rhetoric and Public Affairs,Argumentation and Advocacy, Communication Quarterly, and the Quarterly Journal of Speech. D. Robert DeChaine is a Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies in the Departments of Communication Studies and Liberal Studies at California State University Los Angeles. He is author of Global Humanitarianism : NGOs and the Crafting of Community and more than a dozen scholarly articles, book chapters, and review essays. His published work has appeared in the Journal of Communication Inquiry, Popular Music and Society, the Quarterly Journal of Speech,Text and Performance Quarterly, and the Western Journal of Communication. Anne Teresa Demo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies and the School of Art and Design at 266 / Contributors Syracuse University. Her work explores the relationship between visual rhetoric, identity, and US cultural politics. A past recipient of the national Communication Association’s Golden Monograph award, her articles have appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Critical Studies in Media Communication , Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Environmental History, and Women’s Studies in Communication. She is the coeditor of Rhetoric, Remembrance, andVisual Form: Sighting Memory. Lisa A. Flores is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado. Her research and teaching interests lie in rhetoric, critical race studies, and gender. She has published in Text and Performance Quarterly, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Speech. Her most recent work examines the rhetorical dynamics of domination, particularly as manifest in whiteness and masculinity and in historic narratives of immigrants and immigration. Dustin Bradley Goltz is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at DePaul University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in performance studies, rhetoric of identity, performance of gender and sexuality, and rhetoric of popular culture. He is the author of Queer Temporalities in Gay Male Representation:Tragedy,Normativity,and Futurity. His research has been published in Text and Performance Quarterly, Qualitative Inquiry , the Western Journal of Communication, Genders, and Liminalities. Marouf Hasian Jr. is a Professor working in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah. His areas of interest include rhetoric and law, military communication, postcolonial studies, visual communication , freedom of expression, Holocaust and genocide studies, and critical intercultural studies. He is currently working on a series of studies that investigate how members of the military rationalize the usage of key rules of engagement in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Michelle A. Holling is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at California State University San Marcos. Her scholarly interests include Chican@-Latin@ vernacular discourse, rhetoric of identity, and gendered violence. She is co-editor (with Bernadette Marie Calafell) of Latina/o Discourse inVernacular Spaces:Somos de UnaVoz? Her scholarship appears in the Communication Review,Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies ,Text and Performance Quarterly, and the Western Journal of Communication. Julia R. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Communication, Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Studies, and Director of the School of Arts and Communication at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. in hir teaching and research, Julia emphasizes critical approaches to the study of communication and culture. Some of hir recent publications appear in edited Contributors / 267 volumes such as Teaching, Learning and Intersecting Identities in Higher Education and journals such as the Journal of International...