Standing in the Intersection: Feminist Voices, Feminist Practices in Communication Studies

Contributors

211 Contributors Editor Biographies Karma R. Chávez (Ph.D., Arizona State University) is an assistant professor of rhetoric in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research emphasizes coalition and alliance building, social movement, and the rhetorical practice of marginalized groups using queer feminist of color theories . Most specifically, her current research examines discourses of queer migration and coalition politics, and along with Eithne Luibh éid, she is the cofounder of the Queer Migration Research Network . Her first solo-­ authored book, Queer/Migration Politics, is under review at a university press. Cindy L. Griffin (Ph.D., Indiana University) is professor of communication studies at Colorado State University. Her research interests include feminist theories that challenge many of the foundational assumptions of the rhetorical tradition, developing theories and rhetorics of intersectionality, invitational rhetoric, and exploring the relationships between civility, power, and rhetoric. She is the author of Invitation to Public Speaking (Cengage, 2012), coauthor of Feminist Rhetorical Theories (with Sonja Foss and Karen Foss; Waveland, 2006), and has published articles and book chapters that engage feminism with rhetorical and communication theories. She also served as the editor of Women’s Studies in Communication from 2006 to 2010. Author Biographies Leslie A. Hahner (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is an assistant professor at Baylor University. Her research interests include visual and spatial rhetoric, critical theory, and rhetorical history. Her work has 212 Contributors recently appeared in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies and the Quarterly Journal of Speech. D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein (Ph.D., Ohio State University) is an associate professor of rhetoric in the College of General Studies at Boston University. Her current research focuses on contemporary maternity, feminist theory, and women’s studies in communication. She has been published in Quarterly Journal of Speech, the Western Journal of Communication, Women’s Studies in Communication, Text and Performance Quarterly, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, NationalWomen’sStudiesJournal,andWomen’sStudies.Sherecently published White Feminists and Contemporary Maternity: Purging Matrophobia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), and she is the coeditor with Sara Hayden of Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice: Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction (Lexington Books, 2010). She has an additional coedited collection titled, Academic Motherhood in a Post-Second Wave Context: Challenges, Strategies, and Possibilities , with Andrea O’Reilly (Demeter Press, 2012). Sara Hayden (Ph.D., University of Minnesota) is a professor of communication studies at the University of Montana. Her research focuses on the rhetoric of women’s health, sexuality, and maternity and has been published in journals including the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies in Communication, and the Western Journal of Communication . She served as editor of Women’s Studies in Communication from 2004 to 2007 and she is coeditor, with D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein , of Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice: Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction (Lexington Books, 2010). Marsha Houston (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts) retired in 2009 from the University of Alabama–Tuscaloosa as professor of communication studies. She also served on the faculties of the University of Southern Mississippi, Spelman College, Georgia State University (where she was chair from 1987 to 1990), and Tulane University (where she held the Dreux chair in women’s studies). She is coeditor of the award-­ winning intercultural communication anthology Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication (Oxford University Press, 2011), now in its fifth edition, and of Centering Ourselves: African American Feminist and Womanist Studies of Discourse (Hampton Press, 2002), as well as the author of numerous articles and chapters on African American women’s language and communication. A pioneering Black feminist Contributors 213 communication scholar, she received the Francine Merritt Award for outstanding service to women in the communication discipline in 1994 and is included in Black Pioneers in Communication (Jackson and Givens, 2006). She currently is preparing her papers for donation to the University of Oregon’s archive on women and language research at the invitation of the archive, consulting on issues of workplace diversity, and enjoying her grandchildren. Jennifer Keohane (M.A., University of Wisconsin–Madison) is a doctoral candidate in rhetoric in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her current research explores labor rhetoric in the United States, feminism, and the Cold War. In 2010, she was awarded the Gerard A. Hauser Prize by the Rhetoric Society of America for the best student essay...