Chase Aunspach
Communication Studies University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Research Interests
Critical Theory, Digital Culture, Field Methods, Masculinity, Materiality, Networked Media, Posthumanism, Queer Studies, Rhetorical Theory, Visual Culture.
Publications and Select Presentations
Aunspach, C. (In Press). "'Discrete' and 'Looking' (to Profit): Homoconnectivity on Grindr." Critical Studies in Media Communication.
Aunspach, C. (2020, May). "Queering the Map and Mapping Queerness: Toward a Hyperobject/ionable Criticism." Paper to be presented at the biannual meeting of the Rhetoric Society of America. Portland, OR.
Aunspach, C., & C. R. Kelly. (2020, May). "Smirk: An Affective Form of White Masculine Supremacy." Paper to be presented at the biannual meeting of the Rhetoric Society of America. Portland, OR.
Aunspach, C. (2019, April). "Taking the Bull(sh*t) by the Horns: r/RedPillWomen and the Entrepreneurship of the Relational Marketplace." Paper presented to the Rhetorical Theory and Criticism Interest Group at the annual meeting of the Central States Communication Association. Omaha, NE. Top Panel.
Education
- Ph.D student in Rhetoric and Public Culture with a specialization in Women’s and Gender Studies and minor in English.
- M.A. Communication Studies, University of Nebraska.
- B.A. Communication Studies and Sociology, University of Northern Iowa.