Tasha Rose Dunn

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  • Tasha R. Dunn, Ph.D. brings a hands-on approach to teaching and research, informed by her professional experience in the media industry. Her research focuses on popular media, interpersonal communication, cultural discourse, and identity, with particular attention to class, gender, motherhood and whiteness. She approaches these topics through critical qualitative inquiry, predominantly autoethnography, to foreground lived experience and examine its entanglements with structural and discursive forces. Dr. Dunn’s work is featured in range of edited volumes and journals such as Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Communication Studies, The Journal of Social Media in Society, Communication Education, the International Review of Qualitative Research,  the Journal of Autoethnography, and more. Most noteworthy to date is her award-winning book, Talking White Trash: Mediated Representations and Lived Experiences of White Working-Class People, published by Routledge in 2019. Dr. Dunn has also participated in and presented her research at numerous regional, national, and international conferences where she has received top paper and top panel distinctions as well as served in various leadership positions. Apart from her research, Dr. Dunn is deeply committed to civic engagement and strives to teach and serve in ways that foster positive social change within the classroom and the discipline of communication at large, as well as beyond the academy. 

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