My research and teaching interests include: rhetorical theory and criticism, feminist theories of communication, environmental communication, and intercultural communication. I am especially interested in these areas of inquiries in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the U.S.-Mexico border region, having completed research projects in and about Indonesia, Mexico, Costa Rica, and border issues. I have also developed a research agenda relating to contemporary feminist theory, with my co-author, Valerie Renegar. And finally, I have studied cultural aspects of immigration protests and media representations(with co-author Richard Pineda), and Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers.
Articles
Communicative activities in community ecotourism in Kalimantan, Indonesia, Journal of Development Communication (2010)
Review of Rhetorical listening: Identification, gender, whiteness, Argumentation and Advocacy (2010)
Rhetorical agency as haciendo caras and differential consciousness through lens of gender, race, ethnicity, and class: An examination of Dolores Huerta's rhetoric, Communication Theory (2010)
This study explores the rhetoric of Dolores Huerta, cofounder of the United Farm Workers of...
Contradiction as Agency: Self-determination, Transcendence, and Counter-imagination in Third Wave Feminism (with Valerie R. Renegar), Hypatia (2009)
This essay examines the contradictions often found in third wave feminist texts that function as...
Flag Waving as Visual Argument: 2006 Immigration Demonstrations and Cultural Citizenship (with Richard D. Pineda), Argumentation and Advocacy (2007)
During the 2006 immigration rallies and demonstrations, hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their supporters...