Deanna L Fassett
Biographic Data
| ID | 211621 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deanna L Fassett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deanna L |
| FAMILY NAME | Fassett |
| SIGNATURE | FASSETT D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Jose State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6746-9386 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A critical life
This autoethnographic essay, inspired by Pelias’s “The Critical Life,” follows one faculty member throughout her day. Approximately 25 years after the publication of “The Critical Life,” this piece challenges us to reflect on not only what is “critical” to, for and about our work as scholars, but the ways in which we find ourselves constrained and enacting agency in our present, sociopolitical moment
Reconciling romanticization and vilification
Remaking (the) Discipline
In this performative writing, we explore disability as institutionally disciplined and performatively accomplished. Institutions, including colleges and universities, discipline bodies and minds into the semblance of unproblematic ability through strategic exercise of power. In examining these rhetorics as performed and accomplished, we posit performance as a tactical means for recovering an enabling understanding of ability and disability
Critical Communication Pedagogy
Between the Structural and the Personal
Using a critical intercultural communication perspective and cultural studies interviewing method, this study traces individuals’ subjective sense-makings of diversity through the trope of “race.” Such sense-makings represent the key (and taken-for-granted) locus of the structural and personal where social actors live out the constructions of diversity and race in deeply felt ways. Our study reveals how individuals articulate and understand race …
The Strategic Rhetoric of an “At-Risk” Educational Identity
This essay explores how communication research on “at-risk” students relies on under-theorized understandings of identity as seemingly stable traits and characteristics. In this sense, “at-riskness,” as a cultural identity, is dangerous precisely because it encourages researchers to link identity difference with failure, rather than to explore the presence and perpetuation of particular ideologies. We illuminate such ideological tensions through …
(Re)Constituting Ethnographic Identities
In this essay, the authors sketch out a dialogic consideration of how identity is constituted in qualitative research. They call into question the role of the researcher, asking how he or she not only helps construct his or her own identity in and through the research project but also how the researcher works to maintain the very identities and phenomena he or she thinks he or she is working to deconstruct. The authors put these issues into play …
Policy and Perspectives
Between the Structural and the Personal
Using a critical intercultural communication perspective and cultural studies interviewing method, this study traces individuals’ subjective sense-makings of diversity through the trope of “race.” Such sense-makings represent the key (and taken-for-granted) locus of the structural and personal where social actors live out the constructions of diversity and race in deeply felt ways. Our study reveals how individuals articulate and understand race …
(Re)Constituting Ethnographic Identities
In this essay, the authors sketch out a dialogic consideration of how identity is constituted in qualitative research. They call into question the role of the researcher, asking how he or she not only helps construct his or her own identity in and through the research project but also how the researcher works to maintain the very identities and phenomena he or she thinks he or she is working to deconstruct. The authors put these issues into play …
Remaking (the) Discipline
In this performative writing, we explore disability as institutionally disciplined and performatively accomplished. Institutions, including colleges and universities, discipline bodies and minds into the semblance of unproblematic ability through strategic exercise of power. In examining these rhetorics as performed and accomplished, we posit performance as a tactical means for recovering an enabling understanding of ability and disability
The Strategic Rhetoric of an “At-Risk” Educational Identity
This essay explores how communication research on “at-risk” students relies on under-theorized understandings of identity as seemingly stable traits and characteristics. In this sense, “at-riskness,” as a cultural identity, is dangerous precisely because it encourages researchers to link identity difference with failure, rather than to explore the presence and perpetuation of particular ideologies. We illuminate such ideological tensions through …
Policy and Perspectives
(Re)Constituting Ethnographic Identities
In this essay, the authors sketch out a dialogic consideration of how identity is constituted in qualitative research. They call into question the role of the researcher, asking how he or she not only helps construct his or her own identity in and through the research project but also how the researcher works to maintain the very identities and phenomena he or she thinks he or she is working to deconstruct. The authors put these issues into play …
The Strategic Rhetoric of an “At-Risk” Educational Identity
This essay explores how communication research on “at-risk” students relies on under-theorized understandings of identity as seemingly stable traits and characteristics. In this sense, “at-riskness,” as a cultural identity, is dangerous precisely because it encourages researchers to link identity difference with failure, rather than to explore the presence and perpetuation of particular ideologies. We illuminate such ideological tensions through …
Between the Structural and the Personal
Using a critical intercultural communication perspective and cultural studies interviewing method, this study traces individuals’ subjective sense-makings of diversity through the trope of “race.” Such sense-makings represent the key (and taken-for-granted) locus of the structural and personal where social actors live out the constructions of diversity and race in deeply felt ways. Our study reveals how individuals articulate and understand race …
Critical Communication Pedagogy
Remaking (the) Discipline
In this performative writing, we explore disability as institutionally disciplined and performatively accomplished. Institutions, including colleges and universities, discipline bodies and minds into the semblance of unproblematic ability through strategic exercise of power. In examining these rhetorics as performed and accomplished, we posit performance as a tactical means for recovering an enabling understanding of ability and disability
Reconciling romanticization and vilification
A critical life
This autoethnographic essay, inspired by Pelias’s “The Critical Life,” follows one faculty member throughout her day. Approximately 25 years after the publication of “The Critical Life,” this piece challenges us to reflect on not only what is “critical” to, for and about our work as scholars, but the ways in which we find ourselves constrained and enacting agency in our present, sociopolitical moment
Sociology (7 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Communication in Education and Healthcare (2 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works)