My research interests span public sphere and counterpublic sphere studies, rhetorical criticism, the rhetoric of social movements, and cultural performance. My research on counterpublics, or discursive arenas created and employed by marginal peoples, involves examination, analysis, and publication of marginal, sometimes dissident, voices. Examples of my research in this area include studies of representational practices by gay men with HIV/AIDS in the pages of radical, underground print magazines (in Balancing the Secrets of Private Disclosures), an analysis of HIV/AIDS tattoos (in Text and Performance Quarterly), and a comparison of mainstream, queer, and Black media coverage of discoveries of "passing" (in Critical Studies in Media Communication). My co-edited book, Counterpublics and the State, explores the terrain of public sphere theory through a series of case studies of often-antagonistic interactions between marginal peoples and state institutions and representatives. Recent journal articles have appeared in Rhetoric and Public Affairs and Western Journal of Communication.
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