DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS

KIMBERLY J. CHANDLER Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Wayne State University
Communication Studies, 2007

M.A. Wayne State University
Communication, 2004

B.A. Wayne State University
Communication, 2002

COURSES TAUGHT AT XAVIER

RESEARCH AREAS

Gender and Communication

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Kimberly J. Chandler (Ph.D. Wayne State University) began teaching at Xavier in the Fall of 2007. She is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, also teaching in the Women's Studies program. Her research focuses on gender and communication in relation to the performance of gender. Her primary focus is African American masculinities as well as Black women and identity. Specifically, her work examines the intersections of race/ethnicity, gender, culture and sexual identity in relation to performances of gender. She highlights how these social locations are read, experienced, and negotiated in diverse ways based on one's lived experiences. Her work is being published in the following forthcoming edited volumes:

Chandler, K. J. (2011). Searching for the 'NewBlackWoman': One Single, African American Professor's Experience with the Strong Black Woman Myth. In Gilchrist, E. (Ed.) With This Ph.D., I thee Wed: Experiences of Single African-American Women Professors. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

Chandler, K. J. (2011). How To Become A 'BlackMan': Exploring African American Masculinities and the Performance of Gender. In Jackson, R. and Hopson, M. (Eds.) Masculinity in the Black Imagination

Chandler, K. J. (forthcoming). Knight in Shining Blackness: Exploring the Performance of Black Masculinity in Tyler Perry Films. In Bell, J. and Jackson, R. (Eds.) The Tyler Perry Reader.