Browsing Department of Communication by Author "Cummins, Molly Wiant"
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Critical Race Theory and Critical Communication Pedagogy: Articulating Pedagogy as an Act of Love from Black Male Perspectives
Cummins, Molly Wiant; Griffin, Rachel Alicia (2012-11)Building upon the established foundation of research concerning the systemic marginalization of Black men in traditionally White educational spaces, this essay positions Black male educational counterstories at the center ... -
Documenting Emotional Labor: An Exercise in Critical Communication Pedagogy
Cummins, Molly Wiant; Huber, Audrey A. (The Regents of the University of California, 2022)This essay builds on Lawless’s call to name and chronicle emotional work. The authors draw attention to the emotional labor that has become an institutional expectation of the academic position, particularly among people ... -
Implicating Ourselves Through Our Research: A Duoethnography of Researcher Reflexivity
Cummins, Molly Wiant; Brannon, Grace Ellen (SAGE, 2022)Researcher reflexivity is not a new concept in qualitative research. However, how/if researchers engage in that reflexivity varies. In this essay, the authors engage in reflexivity about a research project they conducted ... -
“Is it because I’m international?”: Unpacking experiences of “international instructors” via critical communication pedagogy as aligned with cultural wealth
Chen, Yea-Wen; Cummins, Molly Wiant; Saindon, Christina E.; Zhang, Dacheng (Routledge, 2022-03-14)Given the relatively invisible yet growing presence of international academics on U.S. campuses, this study investigates the lived negotiations of “international instructors” across disciplines via critical communication ... -
"It's a Struggle, It's a Journey, It's a Mountain That You Gotta Climb": Black Misandry, Education, and the Strategic Embrace of Black Male Counterstories
Griffin, Rachel Alicia; Cummins, Molly Wiant (Left Coast Press, 2012)Access to education is one of the only or most realistic means in the United States to improving one's opportunities and agency over a lifetime. That so many Black men are severed from this opportunity, early and often, ... -
Locations of Possibility: Reengaging Embodied Pedagogy as an Act of Resistance
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Miracles and home births: the importance of media representations of birth
Cummins, Molly Wiant (Routledge, 2019-12-27)Since most women do not experience birth firsthand before giving birth themselves, many U.S. American birthing women draw knowledge from media representations for understanding what to expect during delivery. Most media ... -
Mothering in a Pandemic: Navigating Care Work, Intensive Motherhood, and COVID-19
Cummins, Molly Wiant; Brannon, Grace Ellen (Springer, 2022-03-03)Even before COVID-19, women around the world performed more unpaid domestic labor, specifically unpaid care labor, than men. COVID-19 has only exacerbated the gender gap in this domestic labor. For Western women, especially ... -
‘Never time to do anything well’: mothers’ reported constraints during a pandemic
Brannon, Grace Ellen; Cummins, Molly Wiant (Routledge, 2022-03-28)Mothers’ perceptions of mothering could potentially influence several aspects of their home and work commitments. This study explores how mothers perceive their mothering experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic via 18 ... -
Towards Epistolary Dialogue
Pensoneau-Conway, Sandra L.; Cummins, Molly Wiant (Institute for Critical Education Studies, 2016-08-15)In this essay, we investigate the potential of letters as a communicative genre that embodies dialogue, and thus, disrupts power relations. To do so, we first outline a theoretical framework that draws upon feminist and ...