Ragan Fox
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887694 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ragan Fox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ragan |
| FAMILY NAME | Fox |
| SIGNATURE | FOX R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Heavenly Loci
Academia’s next top bottom
In this complaint biography, I consider how Title IX's peri-performative protocols fail to address structural homophobia and transphobia. Peri-performativity is a spatial metaphor that theorizes conditions for speech and is explored in three ways. First, I use peri-performativity to investigate speech acts and silences that surround sexual harassment in academia. Second, Title IX's peri-performative protocols often result in performative advocacy…
Recalling emotional recall
This essay explores the theatrical roots of an oft-referenced but under-theorized instrument used in autoethnography: emotional recall, or affective memory. I define emotional recall, provide an overview of affective memory’s history in performance, and consider how the tool is modified when used in qualitative research. After distinguishing between more conventional forms of recollection and emotional recall, I offer specific strategies for prac…
Pete and Peck
Research Article| October 01 2019 Pete and Peck: On Eating Our Own Ragan Fox Ragan Fox Ragan Fox is a professor of communication studies at California State University, Long Beach. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2019) 6 (3): 25–34. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.6.3.0025 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ragan Fox; Pete a…
Diяty
This is an autoethnographic account of child molestation. I use “dirty work” as a methodological instrument to explore the ethics and nuances of recalling and writing about child sex abuse. The essay also investigates intra-familial communicative breakdowns that often emerge after child sex abuse survivors disclose mistreatment they have endured
Auto-archaeology of Homosexuality
This essay explores two primary questions. (1) Can there be a Foucauldian autoethnography? (2) How might a Foucault-driven autoethnography detail my experiences in the psychiatric–industrial complex? Pulling largely from Michel Foucault's earliest work History of Madness, I look at how interconnected organizations have rendered homosexuality as senseless, used a “psychiatrization of perverse pleasure” to rationalize this senselessness, and relied…
Who's Afraid of the Author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
My story of coming to performance studies
Are Those Germs in Your Pocket, or Am I Just Crazy to See You? An Autoethnographic Consideration of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
This autoethnographic account chronicles my experiences living with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). OCD is generally framed as a chemical imbalance. I advocate a phenomenological, narrative-based understanding of the illness and emphasize its communicative characteristics. I also consider the ways in which creative writing strategies associated with OCD treatment might inform qualitative research practices
Homo”-work
In this personal narrative, I rely on academic tales and anecdotes to advocate a specific deployment of queer pedagogy that focuses on the peri-performative aspects of queering Communication. I consider how Communication scholars are uniquely positioned to specify how academic communication might be queered. I also critique the ways in which some people in academia communicate about queer people. The essay challenges the grammars of compulsory he…
Implicative Performance
Re-membering Daddy
This autoethnographic report chronicles communication-based interactions I had with my father after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Utilizing a modified version of Michael Fischer's notion of “mosaic memory,” I construct a “mosaic” out of personal anecdotes about my father, scientific explanations of Alzheimer's disease, and philosophical discussions of memory. The paper is an unconventional memorial to my father that provides a narrat…
Ragan Fox is a Gay Slam Poet”
This essay reflects on and features poems representative of my decade-long involvement in performance poetry, which includes a third place finish in the individual competition at the 2005 National Poetry Slam, two published collections of performance poetry, and hundreds of featured performances, in venues ranging from the Nuyorican Poets Café to Air America radio. The artistic statement is an autobiographical consideration of the performative an…
Tales of a Fighting Bobcat
This essay lays the methodological foundation for a form of autoethnography that I describe as “auto-archaeology.” Auto-archaeology specifies a process by which an autoethnographer relies on institutional artifacts to interpret how a network of power relations affects individual identity formation and maintenance. In this essay, I reference artifacts from high school to demonstrate how institutional structures and discourses constrain and enable …
From Heterophobia to Gayville
These six pieces poetically render and respond to the three performative encounters detailed in my artistic statement. The two first poems address how certain labels constrain and enable gay identity. The second pair contextualizes my gay body in relation to popular HIV discourses. The final two pieces rely on scholarly forms to articulate gay subjectivity. Keywords: Slam PoetryGay Identity Additional informationNotes on contributorsRagan Fox Rag…
"Sober Drag Queens, Digital Forests, and Bloated "Lesbians
This essay focuses on how gay podcasters, or "Qpodders," perform their identities in "soundscape" environments. Most of the "data" presented in the report take the form of poetry, dramatic monologue, and dramatic dialogue. Using creative reporting strategies, I chronicle how Qpodders record the ambient sounds of the scenes in which they are embedded; and, as a result, I argue that, within the context of a podcast, nonverbal sounds are poetic and …
Gay Grows Up
This study is based upon qualitative research conducted with the Phoenix chapter of the Prime Timers, a social organization that offers older men in the gay community a space to communicate their general needs and desires. Using data collected through participant observation and informant interviews, the research demonstrates the ways in which the group's affiliates respond to queer sensibilities. The analysis argues that intergenerational commun…
Raging Against Rage
The recent media attention given to the Catholic Church child sex abuse scandals indicates that US culture is on the verge of challenging the taboo associated with talking about molestation. Media depictions of child abuse, however, frequently implicate gay men in their recounting of child abuse. This performance uses fictive monologues as a method of inquiry to explore alternate expressions and representations of gay masculinities, while simulta…
Gay Grows Up
This study is based upon qualitative research conducted with the Phoenix chapter of the Prime Timers, a social organization that offers older men in the gay community a space to communicate their general needs and desires. Using data collected through participant observation and informant interviews, the research demonstrates the ways in which the group's affiliates respond to queer sensibilities. The analysis argues that intergenerational commun…
Tales of a Fighting Bobcat
This essay lays the methodological foundation for a form of autoethnography that I describe as “auto-archaeology.” Auto-archaeology specifies a process by which an autoethnographer relies on institutional artifacts to interpret how a network of power relations affects individual identity formation and maintenance. In this essay, I reference artifacts from high school to demonstrate how institutional structures and discourses constrain and enable …
Re-membering Daddy
This autoethnographic report chronicles communication-based interactions I had with my father after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Utilizing a modified version of Michael Fischer's notion of “mosaic memory,” I construct a “mosaic” out of personal anecdotes about my father, scientific explanations of Alzheimer's disease, and philosophical discussions of memory. The paper is an unconventional memorial to my father that provides a narrat…
Recalling emotional recall
This essay explores the theatrical roots of an oft-referenced but under-theorized instrument used in autoethnography: emotional recall, or affective memory. I define emotional recall, provide an overview of affective memory’s history in performance, and consider how the tool is modified when used in qualitative research. After distinguishing between more conventional forms of recollection and emotional recall, I offer specific strategies for prac…
Are Those Germs in Your Pocket, or Am I Just Crazy to See You? An Autoethnographic Consideration of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
This autoethnographic account chronicles my experiences living with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). OCD is generally framed as a chemical imbalance. I advocate a phenomenological, narrative-based understanding of the illness and emphasize its communicative characteristics. I also consider the ways in which creative writing strategies associated with OCD treatment might inform qualitative research practices
Homo”-work
In this personal narrative, I rely on academic tales and anecdotes to advocate a specific deployment of queer pedagogy that focuses on the peri-performative aspects of queering Communication. I consider how Communication scholars are uniquely positioned to specify how academic communication might be queered. I also critique the ways in which some people in academia communicate about queer people. The essay challenges the grammars of compulsory he…
Ragan Fox is a Gay Slam Poet”
This essay reflects on and features poems representative of my decade-long involvement in performance poetry, which includes a third place finish in the individual competition at the 2005 National Poetry Slam, two published collections of performance poetry, and hundreds of featured performances, in venues ranging from the Nuyorican Poets Café to Air America radio. The artistic statement is an autobiographical consideration of the performative an…
"Sober Drag Queens, Digital Forests, and Bloated "Lesbians
This essay focuses on how gay podcasters, or "Qpodders," perform their identities in "soundscape" environments. Most of the "data" presented in the report take the form of poetry, dramatic monologue, and dramatic dialogue. Using creative reporting strategies, I chronicle how Qpodders record the ambient sounds of the scenes in which they are embedded; and, as a result, I argue that, within the context of a podcast, nonverbal sounds are poetic and …
From Heterophobia to Gayville
These six pieces poetically render and respond to the three performative encounters detailed in my artistic statement. The two first poems address how certain labels constrain and enable gay identity. The second pair contextualizes my gay body in relation to popular HIV discourses. The final two pieces rely on scholarly forms to articulate gay subjectivity. Keywords: Slam PoetryGay Identity Additional informationNotes on contributorsRagan Fox Rag…
Raging Against Rage
The recent media attention given to the Catholic Church child sex abuse scandals indicates that US culture is on the verge of challenging the taboo associated with talking about molestation. Media depictions of child abuse, however, frequently implicate gay men in their recounting of child abuse. This performance uses fictive monologues as a method of inquiry to explore alternate expressions and representations of gay masculinities, while simulta…
Diяty
This is an autoethnographic account of child molestation. I use “dirty work” as a methodological instrument to explore the ethics and nuances of recalling and writing about child sex abuse. The essay also investigates intra-familial communicative breakdowns that often emerge after child sex abuse survivors disclose mistreatment they have endured
Auto-archaeology of Homosexuality
This essay explores two primary questions. (1) Can there be a Foucauldian autoethnography? (2) How might a Foucault-driven autoethnography detail my experiences in the psychiatric–industrial complex? Pulling largely from Michel Foucault's earliest work History of Madness, I look at how interconnected organizations have rendered homosexuality as senseless, used a “psychiatrization of perverse pleasure” to rationalize this senselessness, and relied…
Raging Against Rage
The recent media attention given to the Catholic Church child sex abuse scandals indicates that US culture is on the verge of challenging the taboo associated with talking about molestation. Media depictions of child abuse, however, frequently implicate gay men in their recounting of child abuse. This performance uses fictive monologues as a method of inquiry to explore alternate expressions and representations of gay masculinities, while simulta…
Gay Grows Up
This study is based upon qualitative research conducted with the Phoenix chapter of the Prime Timers, a social organization that offers older men in the gay community a space to communicate their general needs and desires. Using data collected through participant observation and informant interviews, the research demonstrates the ways in which the group's affiliates respond to queer sensibilities. The analysis argues that intergenerational commun…
"Sober Drag Queens, Digital Forests, and Bloated "Lesbians
This essay focuses on how gay podcasters, or "Qpodders," perform their identities in "soundscape" environments. Most of the "data" presented in the report take the form of poetry, dramatic monologue, and dramatic dialogue. Using creative reporting strategies, I chronicle how Qpodders record the ambient sounds of the scenes in which they are embedded; and, as a result, I argue that, within the context of a podcast, nonverbal sounds are poetic and …
Implicative Performance
Re-membering Daddy
This autoethnographic report chronicles communication-based interactions I had with my father after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Utilizing a modified version of Michael Fischer's notion of “mosaic memory,” I construct a “mosaic” out of personal anecdotes about my father, scientific explanations of Alzheimer's disease, and philosophical discussions of memory. The paper is an unconventional memorial to my father that provides a narrat…
Ragan Fox is a Gay Slam Poet”
This essay reflects on and features poems representative of my decade-long involvement in performance poetry, which includes a third place finish in the individual competition at the 2005 National Poetry Slam, two published collections of performance poetry, and hundreds of featured performances, in venues ranging from the Nuyorican Poets Café to Air America radio. The artistic statement is an autobiographical consideration of the performative an…
Tales of a Fighting Bobcat
This essay lays the methodological foundation for a form of autoethnography that I describe as “auto-archaeology.” Auto-archaeology specifies a process by which an autoethnographer relies on institutional artifacts to interpret how a network of power relations affects individual identity formation and maintenance. In this essay, I reference artifacts from high school to demonstrate how institutional structures and discourses constrain and enable …
From Heterophobia to Gayville
These six pieces poetically render and respond to the three performative encounters detailed in my artistic statement. The two first poems address how certain labels constrain and enable gay identity. The second pair contextualizes my gay body in relation to popular HIV discourses. The final two pieces rely on scholarly forms to articulate gay subjectivity. Keywords: Slam PoetryGay Identity Additional informationNotes on contributorsRagan Fox Rag…
Homo”-work
In this personal narrative, I rely on academic tales and anecdotes to advocate a specific deployment of queer pedagogy that focuses on the peri-performative aspects of queering Communication. I consider how Communication scholars are uniquely positioned to specify how academic communication might be queered. I also critique the ways in which some people in academia communicate about queer people. The essay challenges the grammars of compulsory he…
Auto-archaeology of Homosexuality
This essay explores two primary questions. (1) Can there be a Foucauldian autoethnography? (2) How might a Foucault-driven autoethnography detail my experiences in the psychiatric–industrial complex? Pulling largely from Michel Foucault's earliest work History of Madness, I look at how interconnected organizations have rendered homosexuality as senseless, used a “psychiatrization of perverse pleasure” to rationalize this senselessness, and relied…
Who's Afraid of the Author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
My story of coming to performance studies
Are Those Germs in Your Pocket, or Am I Just Crazy to See You? An Autoethnographic Consideration of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
This autoethnographic account chronicles my experiences living with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). OCD is generally framed as a chemical imbalance. I advocate a phenomenological, narrative-based understanding of the illness and emphasize its communicative characteristics. I also consider the ways in which creative writing strategies associated with OCD treatment might inform qualitative research practices
Pete and Peck
Research Article| October 01 2019 Pete and Peck: On Eating Our Own Ragan Fox Ragan Fox Ragan Fox is a professor of communication studies at California State University, Long Beach. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2019) 6 (3): 25–34. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.6.3.0025 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ragan Fox; Pete a…
Diяty
This is an autoethnographic account of child molestation. I use “dirty work” as a methodological instrument to explore the ethics and nuances of recalling and writing about child sex abuse. The essay also investigates intra-familial communicative breakdowns that often emerge after child sex abuse survivors disclose mistreatment they have endured
Recalling emotional recall
This essay explores the theatrical roots of an oft-referenced but under-theorized instrument used in autoethnography: emotional recall, or affective memory. I define emotional recall, provide an overview of affective memory’s history in performance, and consider how the tool is modified when used in qualitative research. After distinguishing between more conventional forms of recollection and emotional recall, I offer specific strategies for prac…
Heavenly Loci
Academia’s next top bottom
In this complaint biography, I consider how Title IX's peri-performative protocols fail to address structural homophobia and transphobia. Peri-performativity is a spatial metaphor that theorizes conditions for speech and is explored in three ways. First, I use peri-performativity to investigate speech acts and silences that surround sexual harassment in academia. Second, Title IX's peri-performative protocols often result in performative advocacy…
Sociology (14 works) · Art (13 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Autoethnography (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Performative utterance (5 works)