Queer Rhetorics

3 credits · Undergraduate

Intellectual, political, and cultural developments between queer theory and communication studies. Theories of performativity and normativity; representations of LGBTQ movements; evolving understandings of queer communities in communication research. Troubling the very idea of "queer" and considering how identity markers such as race, class, gender, gender identity, and disability refine its conceptual and political possibilities. [3] (P)