Queer, Women of Color, and Critical Approaches to Feminist Mentorship and Pedagogy
Cloth: 09/09/2025
About the Book
Feminist mentorship remains in short supply within communication studies and feminist and gender studies. A diverse group of contributors from the undergraduate level to senior scholars use Black feminist, Chicana feminist, and queer lenses to explore feminist mentorship examples in both pedagogical and relationship-building contexts.The first section draws upon the contributors' unique and situated experiences of mentorship in academia. Essays explore their past and current experiences with feminist mentorship in relationships that take many forms: faculty members with fellow faculty members; faculty members with undergraduate and graduate students; and faculty members who feel as if they have become family with their mentors and mentees. In the second section, the contributors deeply interrogate the practices of feminist mentoring by problematizing practices and offering new ways, places, and formats that make space and consider new possibilities. A conclusion reflects on the future of feminist mentorship amidst contemporary debates and concerns in higher education.
Enriching and hopeful, Queer, Women of Color, and Critical Approaches to Feminist Mentorship and Pedagogy is a much-needed challenge to traditional forms of mentorship.
About the Author
Leandra H. Hernández is an associate professor of communication at the University of Utah. She is the coeditor of Supporting the Military-Affiliated Learner: Communication Approaches to Military Pedagogy and Education and other books. Stevie Munz is an associate professor of communication at Utah Valley University. She is the coauthor of Mobile Devices and Technology in Higher Education. Jessica Pauly is an adjunct professor of communication at Northeastern University.Reviews
“This anthology makes a necessary intervention in the theories and practices of feminist mentorship. Taken together, the essays illuminate and forward invaluable ways for rethinking, reframing, reimagining what feminist mentoring can and should be.”—Devika Chawla, author of Home, Uprooted: Oral Histories of India’s Partition
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