Research

Scholarly Book

  1. Inside Reality TV: Producing Race, Gender, and Sexuality on “Big Brother.” New York: Routledge, 2018.
    1. Winner, National Communication Association’s LGBTQ Division’s Book of the Year Award

Refereed Journal Articles

  1. “DiЯty.” Text and Performance Quarterly 39 (2019): 250-267.
  2. “Phags for Phelps’: Exploring the Queer Potential of the Westboro Baptist Church.” Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 11 (2015): 1-19. <https://liminalities.net/11-1/phags.pdf&gt;.
  3. “‘Are Those Germs in Your Pocket, or Am I Just Crazy to See You?’: An Autoethnographic Consideration of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.” Qualitative Inquiry 20 (2014): 966-975.
  4. “Autoarchaeology of Homosexuality: A Foucauldian Reading of the Psychiatric-Industrial Complex.” Text and Performance Quarterly 34(2014): 230-250. Lead Article.
  5. “Who’s Afraid of the Author of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Text and Performance Quarterly 34 (2014): 204-208.
  6. “‘You are not Allowed to Talk about Production’: Narratization on (and off) the Set of CBS’s Big Brother.” Critical Studies in Media Communication. (2013): 189-208. Most downloaded article of 2013 of all NCA journals. Critical Studies in Media Communication’s most downloaded article of 2013.
  7. “‘Homo-work’: Queering Academic Communication and Communicating Queer in Academia.” Text and Performance Quarterly 33 (2013): 58-76. Text and Performance Quarterly’s most downloaded article of 2013.
  8. “Implicative Performance: Staging the ‘Jena Six’ Controversy in the Midst of the Proposition 8 Debate.” Text and Performance Quarterly 31 (2011): 93-99.
  9. “Tales of a Fighting Bobcat: An ‘Auto-archaeology’ of Gay Identity Formation and Maintenance.” Text and Performance Quarterly 30 (2010): 122-142. Winner, Best Article of the Year (NCA’s Ethnography Division).
  10. “Re-membering Daddy: Autoethnographic Reflections of my Father and Alzheimer’s Disease.”  Text and Performance Quarterly 30 (2010): 3-20. Lead Article. Translated for NCA’s Communication Currents. Text and Performance Quarterly’s most downloaded article of 2010.
  11. “Charting the Yeast Radio Virus: Exploring the Potential of Critical Virology.”  Western Journal of Communication 74 (2010): 417-435.   
  12. “Ragan Fox is a Gay Slam Poet: An Autobiographical Exploration of Performance Poetry’s Performative Implications.” Text and Performance Quarterly 30 (2010): 420-429.
  13. “From Heterophobia to Gayville.” Text and Performance Quarterly 30 (2010): 430-439.
  14. “Sober Drag Queens, Digital Forests, and Bloated ‘Lesbians’ (Oh, My!): Performing Gay Identities Online.”  Qualitative Inquiry 14 (2008): 1245-1263.
  15. “Skinny Bones #126-774-835-29: Thin Gay Bodies Signifying a Modern Plague.”  Text and Performance Quarterly 27 (2007): 3-19. Lead Article. Winner, Best Article of the Year (NCA’s Ethnography Division).
  16. “Gay Grows Up: An Interpretive Study of Aging Metaphors and Queer Identity.”  Journal of Homosexuality 52 (2007): 33-61.
  17. “Negative: Using Performative Interventions to Explore HIV-Negativity.”  Theatre Topics 16 (2006): 47-64.
  18. “Raging Against Rage: Telling Tales of Taboo, Molestation, and Anger.”  Text and Performance Quarterly 26 (2006): 98-107.

Invited Article

  1. “Got AIDS Yet? Two Latchkey Gays Reflect on Queer Death Drive.” Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies. (forthcoming, 2020)
  2. “Pete and Peck: On Eating Our Own.” QED: A Journal in LBGTQ Worldmaking. (forthcoming, 2020)

Book Chapters

  1. “Revisiting ‘Bobcat’ on the Eve of My 25-Year High School Reunion.” Handbook of Autoethnography. Eds. Tony E. Adams, Stacy H. Jones, and Carolyn Ellis. New York: Routledge. 2020.
  2. “Queering Housewives.” The Fantasy of Reality: Critical Essays on “The Real Housewives.” Ed. Rachel E. Silverman. New York: Peter Lang. 2015. 13-26.
  3. “Narratizing Risk: HIV Performativity and the Communication of Desire.”  Communicating about HIV/AIDS: Taboo Topics and Difficult Conversations.  Eds. Margaret D’Silva, Joy Hart, and Kandi Walker.  Hampton Press. 2012. 7-22.