Alice Fanari
Biographic Data
| ID | 4046770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice Fanari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice |
| FAMILY NAME | Fanari |
| SIGNATURE | FANARI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0940-5624 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Moving Towards (More-Than-)Human Solidarities and Sustainable Futures: On the Critical Urgency of the Ecological Turn in Intercultural Communication
This special issue brings together ten pieces that illustrate the state and scope of the Ecological Turn in intercultural communication today, while also pointing to future avenues for research. In this introduction, we emphasize the importance of carving spaces of creativity and resistance within and beyond academia as knowledges and solutions for sustainable futures cannot stem from euro-western-centric and anthropocentric frameworks. We conclu…
(Re)Defining Intercultural Communication Theorizing: Mapping the Current Landscape of the Field
This two-part special issue of the Journal of Intercultural Communication Research addresses the state of past, present, and future theorizing in intercultural communication scholarship. Articles in this issue touch on one or more of the following themes: engaging in theorizing, not theory; acknowledging identities and voices at the margins; questioning and resisting colonial legacies; prioritizing praxis and social engagement; and humanizing int…
Looking Ahead: Charting New Horizons in Intercultural Communication Theorizing
We continue to explore current trends and future research directions in the second part of this special issue of the Journal of Intercultural Communication Research. Touching on the same five themes as the first part—engaging in theorizing, not theory; acknowledging identities and voices at the margins; questioning and resisting colonial legacies; prioritizing praxis and social engagement; and humanizing intercultural communication—we present fiv…
Bolstering Military Couple Relational Resilience Through Savoring: Applying the Theory of Resilience and Relational Load
(Re)Conceptualizing Global Families: Exploring How Globalization is Changing Family Communication Scholarship
Beyond cross-cultural adaptation: Exploring international students’ communicative resilience during educational sojourns in the United States
Extending communicated sense-making theorizing to social groups: Missionaries’ Use of Metaphor, Personification, and in-Group Vernacular
Exiting the totalistic and intensively focused structure of missionary service prompts sense-making as missionaries return and adapt to life at home. Drawing from organizational, religious, and interpersonal communication literature, we use the communicated sense-making model to explore how 26 Christian missionaries made sense of their experiences and post-missionary identity. Our findings suggest that missionaries used three sense-making devices…
Love better by fighting smarter: How intercultural couples develop dyadic cultural affinity through romantic conflict management
Testing the theory of normative social behavior in Italy and the USA during Covid-19
Disrupted Sojourn and Forced Reentry: A Qualitative Inquiry of College Students’ Experiences, Stressors, and Coping Strategies After Returning Home During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study explores the unique experience of disrupted sojourns and early reentry among U.S. college students who were abruptly repatriated from their study abroad experience in March 2020. Using a combination of focus groups and interviews with 25 U.S. returning students, the findings suggest that students’ experiences were characterized by themes of accelerated reentry and a deep grieving process, as well as numerous financial, academic, interp…
Reentry Shock and the Role of Communication in Psychological Health: A Study of Abrupt Reentry During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study examines the associations between re-entry shock, re-entry communication, and mental health outcomes among 127 students from different U.S. universities who abruptly returned home from study abroad during the COVID-19 pandemic. Re-entry shock was associated with higher levels of depression, loneliness, and perceived stress, and lower levels of life satisfaction upon re-entry. Mediation analyses suggest that re-entry communication expla…
Negative side effects of music listening during cross-cultural transitions: Exploring how music hinders cross-cultural (re)adaptation among student sojourners
What’s My Purpose Now: A Qualitative Inquiry Into Missionaries’ Experience and Use of Communication After First-Time Missionary Service
This study investigates how first-time religious missionaries use communication to readapt to life outside the mission field after returning home. The findings suggest that returning missionaries used communication to facilitate the reentry. In-depth qualitative interviews with 14 Christian missionaries revealed three common experiences: reconciling the missionary identity, reentering the social context, and transitioning to the post-missionary l…
Study Abroad Soundtracks: Exploring the Role of Music in Cross-Cultural (Re)adaptation among U.S. and International Students
This study explores the ways music can facilitate cross-cultural transitions in academic sojourns. It builds on music’s specific capacities for emotionally rich experiences, interpersonal connection and synchronization, and universality. Focus groups and interviews with U.S. and international students reveal that music helped students to establish new routines, become open to new genres, learn about the local culture, connect to others, and manag…
Transferable Resilience Practices: Communication and Resilience of U.S. Military Spouses during the Initial Stages of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study uses the communication theory of resilience as a sensitizing framework to explore how U.S. military spouses transferred resilience practices acquired during military deployment to early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data from 27 in-depth interviews with U.S. military spouses showed that the military experience shaped participants’ appraisal of the pandemic and helped them to discursively enact resilience through previously developed…
Homesick or Sick-of-Home ? Examining the Effects of Self-Disclosure on Students’ Reverse Culture Shock after Studying Abroad: A Mixed-Method Study
This mixed-method study investigates the effects of self-disclosure and reverse culture shock among students returning from studying abroad. While previous literature examined the socio-cultural factors of re-entry, this study explores the role of communication in this readaptation process using a sample of 285 international college students returning home from different countries. Quantitative data showed that some of the dimensions of self-disc…
Longitudinal effects of U.S. students’ reentry shock on psychological health after returning home during the Covid-19 global pandemic
Beyond cross-cultural adaptation: Exploring international students’ communicative resilience during educational sojourns in the United States
Love better by fighting smarter: How intercultural couples develop dyadic cultural affinity through romantic conflict management
Transferable Resilience Practices: Communication and Resilience of U.S. Military Spouses during the Initial Stages of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study uses the communication theory of resilience as a sensitizing framework to explore how U.S. military spouses transferred resilience practices acquired during military deployment to early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data from 27 in-depth interviews with U.S. military spouses showed that the military experience shaped participants’ appraisal of the pandemic and helped them to discursively enact resilience through previously developed…
Homesick or Sick-of-Home ? Examining the Effects of Self-Disclosure on Students’ Reverse Culture Shock after Studying Abroad: A Mixed-Method Study
This mixed-method study investigates the effects of self-disclosure and reverse culture shock among students returning from studying abroad. While previous literature examined the socio-cultural factors of re-entry, this study explores the role of communication in this readaptation process using a sample of 285 international college students returning home from different countries. Quantitative data showed that some of the dimensions of self-disc…
Longitudinal effects of U.S. students’ reentry shock on psychological health after returning home during the Covid-19 global pandemic
What’s My Purpose Now: A Qualitative Inquiry Into Missionaries’ Experience and Use of Communication After First-Time Missionary Service
This study investigates how first-time religious missionaries use communication to readapt to life outside the mission field after returning home. The findings suggest that returning missionaries used communication to facilitate the reentry. In-depth qualitative interviews with 14 Christian missionaries revealed three common experiences: reconciling the missionary identity, reentering the social context, and transitioning to the post-missionary l…
Study Abroad Soundtracks: Exploring the Role of Music in Cross-Cultural (Re)adaptation among U.S. and International Students
This study explores the ways music can facilitate cross-cultural transitions in academic sojourns. It builds on music’s specific capacities for emotionally rich experiences, interpersonal connection and synchronization, and universality. Focus groups and interviews with U.S. and international students reveal that music helped students to establish new routines, become open to new genres, learn about the local culture, connect to others, and manag…
Transferable Resilience Practices: Communication and Resilience of U.S. Military Spouses during the Initial Stages of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study uses the communication theory of resilience as a sensitizing framework to explore how U.S. military spouses transferred resilience practices acquired during military deployment to early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data from 27 in-depth interviews with U.S. military spouses showed that the military experience shaped participants’ appraisal of the pandemic and helped them to discursively enact resilience through previously developed…
Disrupted Sojourn and Forced Reentry: A Qualitative Inquiry of College Students’ Experiences, Stressors, and Coping Strategies After Returning Home During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study explores the unique experience of disrupted sojourns and early reentry among U.S. college students who were abruptly repatriated from their study abroad experience in March 2020. Using a combination of focus groups and interviews with 25 U.S. returning students, the findings suggest that students’ experiences were characterized by themes of accelerated reentry and a deep grieving process, as well as numerous financial, academic, interp…
Reentry Shock and the Role of Communication in Psychological Health: A Study of Abrupt Reentry During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study examines the associations between re-entry shock, re-entry communication, and mental health outcomes among 127 students from different U.S. universities who abruptly returned home from study abroad during the COVID-19 pandemic. Re-entry shock was associated with higher levels of depression, loneliness, and perceived stress, and lower levels of life satisfaction upon re-entry. Mediation analyses suggest that re-entry communication expla…
Negative side effects of music listening during cross-cultural transitions: Exploring how music hinders cross-cultural (re)adaptation among student sojourners
Love better by fighting smarter: How intercultural couples develop dyadic cultural affinity through romantic conflict management
Testing the theory of normative social behavior in Italy and the USA during Covid-19
(Re)Defining Intercultural Communication Theorizing: Mapping the Current Landscape of the Field
This two-part special issue of the Journal of Intercultural Communication Research addresses the state of past, present, and future theorizing in intercultural communication scholarship. Articles in this issue touch on one or more of the following themes: engaging in theorizing, not theory; acknowledging identities and voices at the margins; questioning and resisting colonial legacies; prioritizing praxis and social engagement; and humanizing int…
Looking Ahead: Charting New Horizons in Intercultural Communication Theorizing
We continue to explore current trends and future research directions in the second part of this special issue of the Journal of Intercultural Communication Research. Touching on the same five themes as the first part—engaging in theorizing, not theory; acknowledging identities and voices at the margins; questioning and resisting colonial legacies; prioritizing praxis and social engagement; and humanizing intercultural communication—we present fiv…
Bolstering Military Couple Relational Resilience Through Savoring: Applying the Theory of Resilience and Relational Load
(Re)Conceptualizing Global Families: Exploring How Globalization is Changing Family Communication Scholarship
Beyond cross-cultural adaptation: Exploring international students’ communicative resilience during educational sojourns in the United States
Extending communicated sense-making theorizing to social groups: Missionaries’ Use of Metaphor, Personification, and in-Group Vernacular
Exiting the totalistic and intensively focused structure of missionary service prompts sense-making as missionaries return and adapt to life at home. Drawing from organizational, religious, and interpersonal communication literature, we use the communicated sense-making model to explore how 26 Christian missionaries made sense of their experiences and post-missionary identity. Our findings suggest that missionaries used three sense-making devices…
Moving Towards (More-Than-)Human Solidarities and Sustainable Futures: On the Critical Urgency of the Ecological Turn in Intercultural Communication
This special issue brings together ten pieces that illustrate the state and scope of the Ecological Turn in intercultural communication today, while also pointing to future avenues for research. In this introduction, we emphasize the importance of carving spaces of creativity and resistance within and beyond academia as knowledges and solutions for sustainable futures cannot stem from euro-western-centric and anthropocentric frameworks. We conclu…
Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · International Student and Expatriate Challenges (8 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Communication (4 works) · Intercultural communication (4 works) · Interpersonal communication (4 works) · Pandemic (4 works)