Assistant Professor
Dr. Denton is an assistant professor in the College of Education's Higher Education and Student Affairs programs. His research focuses on college student embodiment, which is how student bodies are regulated, policed, constrained, and constructed through cultural, societal, and institutional discourses, policies, and experiences. He specifically focuses on the impact of forces of able-bodiedness, illness/disease, HIV/AIDS, heteronormativity, and binary gender oppression in higher education. Dr. Denton's work uses critical and poststructural narrative and arts-based methods to examine common and distinct life experiences among HIV positive gay college men, trans collegians, and college students living with chronic illness.
×
About J. Michael Denton
Dr. Denton is an assistant professor in the College of Education's Higher Education and Student Affairs programs. His research focuses on college student embodiment, which is how student bodies are regulated, policed, constrained, and constructed through cultural, societal, and institutional discourses, policies, and experiences. He specifically focuses on the impact of forces of able-bodiedness, illness/disease, HIV/AIDS, heteronormativity, and binary gender oppression in higher education. Dr. Denton's work uses critical and poststructural narrative and arts-based methods to examine common and distinct life experiences among HIV positive gay college men, trans collegians, and college students living with chronic illness.
| Present | Assistant Professor, University of South Florida ‐ Leadership, Counseling, Adult, Career and Higher Education | |
|
|
||
Disciplines
Research Interests
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2018 - Present | Member, College of Education Diversity Committee, University of South Florida | 2018 - Present | Member, College of Education Faculty Policy Committee, University of South Florida | 2017 - Present | Member, Committee to select Associate Professor of Counselor Education, University of South Florida | 2015 - Present | Member, College of Education Qualitative Advisory Group, University of South Florida |
Honors and Awards
- 2015 - AERA Queer Studies SIG Dissertation of the Year Award
- 2015 - ASHE Dissertation of the Year Finalist
- 2014 - ACPA Standing Committee on Men and Masculinities “Outstanding Emerging Research Award”
- 2014 - Miami University Three Minute Thesis Competition, 2nd Place
- 2009 -SEAHO Research and Information Grant (Sophomore & Transfer LLC
| 2014 | Ph.D., Miami University – Oxford, OH | |
|
|
||
| 1995 | M.S., Mississippi State University | |
|
|
||
| 1992 | B.A., Mississippi State University | |
|
|
||