Bernadette Marie Calafell
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 181644 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bernadette Marie Calafell |
| NOMBRES | Bernadette Marie |
| APELLIDO | Calafell |
| FIRMA | CALAFELL B M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Denver |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-5636-4167 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 153 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Captain Sisko and Me
This essay uses autoethnography and performative writing to explore the role Captain Benjamin Sisko of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has played in my life as a fatherless daughter. I ruminate on specific moments of the show and Sisko’s fatherhood, at times rewriting my own fragmented and painful histories with my “father.” This allows for spaces of agency and possibility for me as a Chicana fatherless daughter. Furthermore, this essay offers us a sp…
The Im(possibility) of Disability at the End of the World in The Last of Us
The Last of Us, which aired on January 29, 2023, on HBO Max (now Max) based upon a video game of the same name, follows the story of Joel (Pedro Pascal) who is trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world after a zombie virus erupts. After the death of his daughter, Sarah (Nico Parker), Joel becomes a smuggler alongside his partner Tess (Anna Torv). Joel and Tess agree to smuggle Ellie (Bella Ramsey), a teenager who is immune to the zombie virus…
Fix Your Hearts or Die
On January 15, 2025, I woke up to the news David Lynch had died. As a huge fan of Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks: The Return I was shaken. I could not imagine a life without the presence of David Lynch in it. Certainly, the man was imperfect, but he created queer life worlds of possibility for anymore that felt like me as a freak, a punk, a queer, and aging Chipster. The life worlds of Twin Peaks, and films like Mulholland Drive, with its haunting per…
Reenvisioning the need for scholarship on and from Latinidad
Queer Relationalities, Impossible
This essay interrogates the representation of "hot mess" gay male castmates and their interpersonal relationships in LOGO's Fire Island's season 1. In particular, this essay identifies moments of media constructed queer failure through which the gay male castmates are framed, not to politicize, historicize, and contextualize their interpersonal relations as possibly emerging forms of queer relationalities. In so doing, this essay overall critique…
A Conversation on Activism, Solidarity, and Burnout in the Academy
Drs. Ersula J. Ore and Bernadette Marie Calafell were invited to discuss their experiences with activism in the academy. They discuss what’s at stake and the costs (both emotional and financial) as well as issues of trauma and burnout
De-Whitening Intersectionality
De-Whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics re-evaluates how the logic of color-blindness as whiteness is at play in the current scope of intersectional research on race, intercultural communication, and politics. Calling for a re-centering of difference by exploring the emergence and inception of intersectionality concepts, the coeditors and contributors distinguish between the uses of intersectionality that s…
The Critical Performative Turn in Intercultural Communication
This essay argues that the performative turn in intercultural communication was a natural movement that follows the interpersonal, interpretative, critical, and rhetorical previous turns. The critical edge performance studies bring to intercultural communication through the re-centring of the (Othered) body and critical performative reflexivity is necessary if intercultural communication as a field is going to move beyond histories of Otherizing,…
Toward Praxis
Maybe seeking social justice is not only about seeking social justice, but about critiquing and interrupting the minute moments of social injustice that permeate our everyday identity performances, and hoping for a better tomorrow with others in our lives.—Satoshi Toyosaki and Sandra L. Pensoneau-Conway1I (Cassidy) open my copy of the Handbook of Autoethnography2 to start making notes for this essay. When I turn to the back to search the index, t…
Cisnormativity, Whiteness, and the Fear of Contagion in Academia
Research Article| February 01 2020 Cisnormativity, Whiteness, and the Fear of Contagion in Academia Bernadette Marie Calafell Bernadette Marie Calafell Bernadette Marie Calafell (PhD, University of North Carolina) is professor and chair of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at Gonzaga University. She thanks Roberta Chevrette and Shinsuke Eguchi for their support and feedback. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal…
On invitations and possibilities
Here is something you can't understand
The authors utilize a modernity-coloniality framework to highlight practices of whiteness and white dominance within the academy and the field of communication studies in particular. The article grounds its framework in personal experience and theories in the flesh to build comradery with feminist of color scholarly forebears and to share with those who struggle to create spaces of change within the academy today and in the future. The authors ad…
“Even Your Failures Can Be Fabulous”
This brief essay presents a collage of moments, snippets of stories, both personal and popular, that relate to metamorphosis and the migration of stories across a(n) (academic) lifetime
The imperative for examining anti-Muslim racism in rhetorical studies
Lisa Flores’s essay provides us with important points to consider in terms of race and rhetoric. For example, Flores calls for racial rhetorical criticism; however, similarly we ask, isn't all rhet
From failure and allyship to feminist solidarities
In this essay we use performative writing to explore the (im)possibilities of feminist alliances across difference drawing upon our lived experiences in an advising relationship between a cisgender queer Chicana feminist advisor and a cisgender Kuwaiti-Palestinian heterosexual female doctoral advisee. Drawing upon the trope of failure, we explore the importance of performing an intersectional feminist ethic when working transnationally to create …
When Depression Is in the Job Description #realacademicbios
Inspired by H. L. Goodall Jr.'s and Barabara J. Jago's respective essays on academic culture and depression, this piece utilizes performative writing to flesh out the popular hashtag #realacademicbios. Drawing on my experiences as a queer faculty of color in the neoliberal academy going through racial battle fatigue, microaggressions, anti-feminist/anti-intersectional critiques, and imposter syndrome, I seek to affectively create a state of depre…
Brownness, kissing, and US imperialism
The mass murders committed during Latin Night at Pulse, an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, on June 12, 2016 provide us with an important moment to reflect not only on the increase of violence and hate c
Diana and Beyond
Book Review| March 01 2017 Diana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture Diana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture. By Raka Shome. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014; pp. 256. $30.00 cloth; $95.00 paper. Haneen Shafeeq Ghabra; Haneen Shafeeq Ghabra University of Denver Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Bernadette Marie Calafell Ber…
The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation
As a frequent reviewer of critical rhetorical analyses of race and ethnicity, I have noted a significant pattern, the lack of culturally nuanced criticism. I look for criticism that works to unders
Brown Queer Bodies
Queer Theory
This entry offers an overview of the history and key aspects of queer theory, as well as of its use in communication studies. Additionally, both critiques of queer theory, which are grounded in intersectionality, and the resulting outgrowths of queer of color‐centered perspectives are reviewed. Emerging areas of research, such as transgender studies, are also addressed.
Feeling Brown, Feeling Down”
The Future of Feminist Scholarship
My feelings about the status of feminist scholarship and Women's Studies in Communication as it approaches forty are conflicted. I celebrate the journal as a space for publishing work that centers
Did It Happen Because of Your Race or Sex?”
Bernadette Marie Calafell, “Did It Happen Because of Your Race or Sex?”: University Sexual Harassment Policies and the Move against Intersectionality, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 35, No. 3, Special Issue: Women of Color and Gender Equity (2014), pp. 75-95
A Love Affair that Began in Stauffer Hall
This essay explores my reluctant introduction to performance studies and my ultimate seduction into it.Keywords: Master narrativesChicana/oQueerness
Contesting Neoliberalism Through Critical Pedagogy, Intersectional Reflexivity, and Personal Narrative
In this essay, we use personal narrative to explore allies and alliance building between marginalized people working in and through higher education, with an eye toward interrogating the ways in which ideologies of neoliberalism work to maintain hierarchy through the legitimation of Othering. Inspired by Conquergood (1985), who calls scholars to engage in intimate conversation rather than distanced observation, we offer our embodied experiences a…
Mentoring and Love
This essay blends autobiographical performance, performative writing (Pollock, 1998), and theory, in letter form following in the tradition of Madison (1999) and Ono (1997), to argue for the examination of mentoring as a critical act that blends theory and practice. It offers mentoring as a site of embodied resistance and 'homeplace' for faculty of color and the students of color they mentor that exists outside of the traditional confines of rese…
From failure and allyship to feminist solidarities
In this essay we use performative writing to explore the (im)possibilities of feminist alliances across difference drawing upon our lived experiences in an advising relationship between a cisgender queer Chicana feminist advisor and a cisgender Kuwaiti-Palestinian heterosexual female doctoral advisee. Drawing upon the trope of failure, we explore the importance of performing an intersectional feminist ethic when working transnationally to create …
Monstrous Femininity
This article centers the experiences of women of color in academia by placing my narrative alongside literature about shapeshifters/werewolves and racism and sexism in the academy. I use my narratives as a queer feminist of color in the academy to draw parallels between these experiences to explicate how women of color are constructed as monstrous Others. Through the performative rendering and naming of this parallel or metaphor the author hopes …
Envisioning an Academic Readership
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBernadette Marie CalafellBernadette Marie Calafell (PhD, University of North Carolina) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Communication at the University of DenverShane T. MoremanShane T. Moreman (PhD, University of South Florida) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at California State University, Fresno
The Future of Feminist Scholarship
My feelings about the status of feminist scholarship and Women's Studies in Communication as it approaches forty are conflicted. I celebrate the journal as a space for publishing work that centers
Pro(re-)claiming Loss
This performance ethnography examines the author's pilgrimage to Mexico City in search of Malintzin Tenépal. The essay seeks to contribute to the Chicana feminist project of reclaiming the narrative or voice of Malintzin Tenépal by means of autoethnographic narrative, as opposed to more standard prose or poetic forms. By embodying Malintzin's story through her own, the author creates or reclaims her own voice and narrative through a performative …
Here is something you can't understand
The authors utilize a modernity-coloniality framework to highlight practices of whiteness and white dominance within the academy and the field of communication studies in particular. The article grounds its framework in personal experience and theories in the flesh to build comradery with feminist of color scholarly forebears and to share with those who struggle to create spaces of change within the academy today and in the future. The authors ad…
Buscando para nuestra latinidad
This essay analyzes the contemporary constructions of Latina/o identity, Latina/o gender and Latina/o nationality as evidenced in the self-proclaimed “first major studio comedy to reflect the Hispanic cultural experience in America,” Chasing Papi. The contradictions between the film's progressive mission and the film's representations are teased out by a cross-reading of the film's usage of the popular Chicana/o mythic figure, La Llorona. Invokin…
Identities on Stage and Staging Identities
We examine Chicano on the Storm, performed in 1991 by Richard Montoya of the theater group Culture Clash Culture, Clash. 1998. Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy, New York: Theatre Communications Group. [Google Scholar], and Border Brujo, performed in 1990 by Guillermo Gómez-Peña to explore the ways that the performances stage identities. We contend that the performances advance commentaries about the cultural milieu shaping Chicana/o identitie…
On invitations and possibilities
The imperative for examining anti-Muslim racism in rhetorical studies
Lisa Flores’s essay provides us with important points to consider in terms of race and rhetoric. For example, Flores calls for racial rhetorical criticism; however, similarly we ask, isn't all rhet
Brown Queer Bodies
Performance
More than once, a graduate student has asked me to be on her/his committee because as a performance studies scholar I can provide the “creativity,” while my colleague in rhetoric can provide the “t
Queer Relationalities, Impossible
This essay interrogates the representation of "hot mess" gay male castmates and their interpersonal relationships in LOGO's Fire Island's season 1. In particular, this essay identifies moments of media constructed queer failure through which the gay male castmates are framed, not to politicize, historicize, and contextualize their interpersonal relations as possibly emerging forms of queer relationalities. In so doing, this essay overall critique…
Brownness, kissing, and US imperialism
The mass murders committed during Latin Night at Pulse, an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, on June 12, 2016 provide us with an important moment to reflect not only on the increase of violence and hate c
Toward Praxis
Maybe seeking social justice is not only about seeking social justice, but about critiquing and interrupting the minute moments of social injustice that permeate our everyday identity performances, and hoping for a better tomorrow with others in our lives.—Satoshi Toyosaki and Sandra L. Pensoneau-Conway1I (Cassidy) open my copy of the Handbook of Autoethnography2 to start making notes for this essay. When I turn to the back to search the index, t…
Cisnormativity, Whiteness, and the Fear of Contagion in Academia
Research Article| February 01 2020 Cisnormativity, Whiteness, and the Fear of Contagion in Academia Bernadette Marie Calafell Bernadette Marie Calafell Bernadette Marie Calafell (PhD, University of North Carolina) is professor and chair of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at Gonzaga University. She thanks Roberta Chevrette and Shinsuke Eguchi for their support and feedback. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal…
Diana and Beyond
Book Review| March 01 2017 Diana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture Diana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture. By Raka Shome. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014; pp. 256. $30.00 cloth; $95.00 paper. Haneen Shafeeq Ghabra; Haneen Shafeeq Ghabra University of Denver Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Bernadette Marie Calafell Ber…
A Love Affair that Began in Stauffer Hall
This essay explores my reluctant introduction to performance studies and my ultimate seduction into it.Keywords: Master narrativesChicana/oQueerness
Books in review
WHEN ROMEO WAS A WOMAN: CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN AND HER CIRCLE OF FEMALE SPECTATORS. By Lisa Merrill. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999; ix‐318; $37.50. LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN DRAMATISTS: THEATER, TEXTS, AND THEORIES. Edited by Catherine Larson and Margarita Vargas. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998; ix‐277; $39.95; paper $19.95
Books in review
TELLING BODIES PERFORMING BIRTH: EVERYDAY NARRATIVES OF CHILDBIRTH. By Della Pollock. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999; pp. ix‐290; $49.50; paper $18.50. DISIDENTIFICATIONS: QUEERS OF COLOR AND THE PERFORMANCE OF POLITICS. By José Esteban Muñoz. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. 1999; ix‐227; $49.95; paper $19.95. NOMADIC IDENTITIES: THE PERFORMANCE OF CITIZENSHIP. By May Joseph. Minneapolis and London: University of…
Disrupting the Dichotomy
Pro(re-)claiming Loss
This performance ethnography examines the author's pilgrimage to Mexico City in search of Malintzin Tenépal. The essay seeks to contribute to the Chicana feminist project of reclaiming the narrative or voice of Malintzin Tenépal by means of autoethnographic narrative, as opposed to more standard prose or poetic forms. By embodying Malintzin's story through her own, the author creates or reclaims her own voice and narrative through a performative …
Mocking Mexicans for Profit
Identities on Stage and Staging Identities
We examine Chicano on the Storm, performed in 1991 by Richard Montoya of the theater group Culture Clash Culture, Clash. 1998. Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy, New York: Theatre Communications Group. [Google Scholar], and Border Brujo, performed in 1990 by Guillermo Gómez-Peña to explore the ways that the performances stage identities. We contend that the performances advance commentaries about the cultural milieu shaping Chicana/o identitie…
Mentoring and Love
This essay blends autobiographical performance, performative writing (Pollock, 1998), and theory, in letter form following in the tradition of Madison (1999) and Ono (1997), to argue for the examination of mentoring as a critical act that blends theory and practice. It offers mentoring as a site of embodied resistance and 'homeplace' for faculty of color and the students of color they mentor that exists outside of the traditional confines of rese…
Buscando para nuestra latinidad
This essay analyzes the contemporary constructions of Latina/o identity, Latina/o gender and Latina/o nationality as evidenced in the self-proclaimed “first major studio comedy to reflect the Hispanic cultural experience in America,” Chasing Papi. The contradictions between the film's progressive mission and the film's representations are teased out by a cross-reading of the film's usage of the popular Chicana/o mythic figure, La Llorona. Invokin…
Hello Kitty Goes to College
Darth Vader Made Me Do It! Anakin Skywalker’s Avoidance of Responsibility and the Gray Areas of Hegemonic Masculinity in the Star Wars Universe
In this essay, we examined the interactions of Anakin Skywalker during moral dilemmas in the Star Wars narrative in order to demonstrate the avoidance of responsibility as a characteristic of hegemonic masculinity. Past research on sexual harassment has demonstrated a “gray area” that shields sexual harassers from responsibility. We explored how such a gray area functions as a characteristic of hegemonic masculinity by shielding one male, Anakin …
Envisioning an Academic Readership
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBernadette Marie CalafellBernadette Marie Calafell (PhD, University of North Carolina) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Communication at the University of DenverShane T. MoremanShane T. Moreman (PhD, University of South Florida) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at California State University, Fresno
Iterative Hesitancies and Latinidad
This chapter contains sections titled: Racial Performativity and Latinidad Martín Cortés and Latina/o Performance The Three Iterative Hesitancies: The Ocular, the Grammatical and the Singular The Ocular The Grammatical The Singular Conclusion Beginnings References
What Is This “Post-” in Postracial, Postfeminist… (Fill in the Blank)
The events of the 2008 election continue to spark prognostications that we live in a world that is postracial/feminist, and so on. At the 2009 NCA (National Communication Association) convention, a panel of communication scholars discussed how to approach questions of identity and communication over the next 5 years. Participants suggested ways to be critical of assertions of “post” and elaborated ways to encounter new dimensions of identificatio…
Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces
Taking up the charge to study discourses of marginalized groups, while simultaneously extending scholarship about Latina/os in the field of Communication, Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces: Somos de Una Voz? provides the most current work examining the vernacular voices of Latina/os. The editors of this diverse collection structure the book along four topics_Locating Foundations, Citizenship and Belonging, The Politics of Self-Representatio…
Border Rhetorics
Border Rhetorics a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States.A border is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical territories, as a judicial marker of citizenship, and as an ideological trope for defining inclusion and exclusion. It has implications for both the empowerment an…
Monstrous Femininity
This article centers the experiences of women of color in academia by placing my narrative alongside literature about shapeshifters/werewolves and racism and sexism in the academy. I use my narratives as a queer feminist of color in the academy to draw parallels between these experiences to explicate how women of color are constructed as monstrous Others. Through the performative rendering and naming of this parallel or metaphor the author hopes …
Contesting Neoliberalism Through Critical Pedagogy, Intersectional Reflexivity, and Personal Narrative
In this essay, we use personal narrative to explore allies and alliance building between marginalized people working in and through higher education, with an eye toward interrogating the ways in which ideologies of neoliberalism work to maintain hierarchy through the legitimation of Othering. Inspired by Conquergood (1985), who calls scholars to engage in intimate conversation rather than distanced observation, we offer our embodied experiences a…
A Love Affair that Began in Stauffer Hall
This essay explores my reluctant introduction to performance studies and my ultimate seduction into it.Keywords: Master narrativesChicana/oQueerness
Performance
More than once, a graduate student has asked me to be on her/his committee because as a performance studies scholar I can provide the “creativity,” while my colleague in rhetoric can provide the “t
Feeling Brown, Feeling Down”
The Future of Feminist Scholarship
My feelings about the status of feminist scholarship and Women's Studies in Communication as it approaches forty are conflicted. I celebrate the journal as a space for publishing work that centers
Did It Happen Because of Your Race or Sex?”
Bernadette Marie Calafell, “Did It Happen Because of Your Race or Sex?”: University Sexual Harassment Policies and the Move against Intersectionality, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 35, No. 3, Special Issue: Women of Color and Gender Equity (2014), pp. 75-95
Queer Theory
This entry offers an overview of the history and key aspects of queer theory, as well as of its use in communication studies. Additionally, both critiques of queer theory, which are grounded in intersectionality, and the resulting outgrowths of queer of color‐centered perspectives are reviewed. Emerging areas of research, such as transgender studies, are also addressed.
When Depression Is in the Job Description #realacademicbios
Inspired by H. L. Goodall Jr.'s and Barabara J. Jago's respective essays on academic culture and depression, this piece utilizes performative writing to flesh out the popular hashtag #realacademicbios. Drawing on my experiences as a queer faculty of color in the neoliberal academy going through racial battle fatigue, microaggressions, anti-feminist/anti-intersectional critiques, and imposter syndrome, I seek to affectively create a state of depre…
Brownness, kissing, and US imperialism
The mass murders committed during Latin Night at Pulse, an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, on June 12, 2016 provide us with an important moment to reflect not only on the increase of violence and hate c
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