Mar 4 2024

Pedagogies of the Enfleshed: The Place of Sustained Critical Mentoring

March 4, 2024

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM CST

Location

Room 1-470, Richard J. Daley Library

Address

801 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607

Cost

FREE

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Join Drs. Lore/tta LeMaster and Greg S. Hummel to reflect on the place of critical mentoring beyond
institutional recognition—how one comes to criticality through unlikely channels; how one sustains a critical posture in light of neoliberal and neoconservative forces that seek to curb radical potential in educative contexts; how one finds reprieve in co-constructed communities across time and place. And, perhaps more pressing, to discuss how one does critical work as minoritized educators at all. This session invites community discussion and encourages graduate student engagement especially.

Co-sponsored by the UIC Richard J. Daley Library

Speakers bios below.

Contact

GSC
lgbtqa@uic.edu

Date posted

Feb 27, 2024

Date updated

Feb 27, 2024

Speakers

Greg Hummel, Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Chairperson | Communication & Media Department, SUNY Oneonta

Dr. Greg Hummel (he/they) is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Affiliate Faculty of Women’s and Gender Studies, and Chairperson of the Communication and Media Department at SUNY Oneonta. Greg earned their doctorate at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Broadly, he is interested in conceptualizations of identity, voice, agency, social justice activism, and queer worldmaking globally and locally. Their research is framed within critical, interpretative, and performative paradigms that center questions of power, privilege, marginalization, and oppression across various intersecting identities including gender, sexuality, race, class, disability, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and size. His more recent publication focuses on learning-unlearning- relearning gender and sexual performativity as a mechanism for autoethnographic inquiry and queer worldmaking. Their current scholarly projects include editing a collection of critical essays that offer a survey of communication theories and methods as they connect with college student experiences. Greg also embraces a critical feminist and queer pedagogy in each of their courses. He has taught an array of courses, including Gender and Communication, Intercultural Communication, and Argumentation, and is currently teaching and introductory large-lecture survey course, Perspectives on Communication, and a senior-level capstone course, Speaking for Social Change.

Lore/tta LeMaster, Ph.D. | Associate Professor | Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University

A world-breaker, -maker and avid eater of donuts and tacos, Dr. Lore/tta LeMaster (she/they) is an award- winning critical/cultural scholar of communication who engages the intersectional constitution of cultural difference with particular focus on trans and queer of color life, art, and embodiment. Her work braids the social sciences with the humanities in service of liberatory political praxes. Recent results include critical qualitative investigations into trans life; meta-interrogations of disciplinary complacency in US settler empire-making through communication; rhetorical analyses of the historic criminalization of racialized sexualities; and performative explorations of sensorial economies. Dr. LeMaster is an uninvited settler who lives, loves, and creates on stolen Akimel O'otham and Piipaash land recently called Arizona and where she serves as associate professor of critical/cultural communication and performance studies in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. There, she directs the Intersections of Civil, Critical, and Creative Communication (I-4C) Research Collaborative, which leverages civil, critical, and creative communication resources in service of social change in addition to founding and organizing the Trans and Gender Expansive Research and Pedagogy Collective, an interdisciplinary (un)coalition in support of trans students and scholars as well as scholars who center transness in their study.