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Zingsheim, Jason


Assistant Professor of Communication
Division: Communication, Visual and Performing Arts
Program: Communication
Office: E2566
Phone: 708.534.7493


Education | Publications | Honors | Presentations | Research | Service | Professional Memberships

Education

  • Ph.D, Arizona State University, 2008
  • M.A, Arizona State University, 2004
  • B.A., Seattle Pacific University, 2000

Publications

In Process 

  • Zingsheim, J.  Focus on the SpongeBob: The representational politics of James Dobson. Book chapter for Carilli, T. & Campbell, J. (Eds.). A queer gaze: Media and the global GLBT community. Final manuscript delivered February 20, 2011.
  • Haring, C., Cortese, D. K., & Zingsheim, J., Interdisciplinary strategies for adult learning. Article manuscript in process.

Journal Articles

  • Zingsheim, J. (2011). X-Men evolution: Mutational identity and shifting subjectivities. The Howard Journal of Communications, 22(3) 223-239. doi: 10.1080/10646175.2011.590408.
  • Zingsheim, J. & Goltz, D. (2011). The intersectional workings of whiteness: A representative anecdote. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 33(3) 215-241. doi: 10.1080/10714413.2011.585286
  • Zingsheim, J. (2011). Developing mutational identity theory: Evolution, multiplicity, embodiment, and agency. Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, 11(1), 24-37. doi: 10.1177/1532708610386546
  • Goltz, D. & Zingsheim, J. (2010). It’s not a wedding, it’s a gayla! Queer resistance and normative recuperation. Text & Performance Quarterly, 30(3). 290-312. doi: 10.1080/10462937.2010.483011
  • Zingsheim, J. (2008). Resistant privilege and (or) privileged resistance: Navigating the boxes ofembodied identity. Liminalities, 4(2).

Encyclopedia Entries 

  • Zingsheim, J. (2008). Whiteness and white supremacy. In A. Lind & S. Brzuzy (Eds.), Battleground: Women, gender and sexuality. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Edited Books 

  • Zingsheim, J., & Goltz, D. B. (Eds.). (2011). Communicating identity: Critical approaches. San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-60927-817-5

Book Chapters

  • Zingsheim, J. (2011). Lost in the gap: Between the discourses and practices of white masculinity.In J. Zingsheim & D. B. Goltz (Eds.) Communicating Identity: Critical Approaches (pp. 217-233). San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-60927-817-5

Honors

  • Faculty Excellence Award, Governors State University, 2012
  • 2009 Top Faculty Paper. We’re here, we’re mutants, get used to it: Developing mutational identity theory. Communication Theory division, Central States Communication Association.
  • 2007 NCA Summer Doctoral Honors Seminar. National Communication Association.
  • 2006 Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Associates, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, ASU
  • 2006 Top Student Paper. Representative anecdote: A comic corrective for studies of whiteness. Communication Theory Interest Group, Western States Communication Association.
  • 2004 Top Student Paper. White laughter: Rhetorical strategies of whiteness in ‘Friends’. Intercultural Communication Interest Group, Western States Communication Association.
  • 2004 M.A. Outstanding Teacher Award, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, ASU

 

Presentations

  • Cortese, D. K., Haring, C., & Zingsheim, J. (2011).  Experimenting with best practices in teaching graduate courses to non-traditional student populations: A case study on Governors State University. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, Missouri, 2011.
  • Zingsheim, J. (2011). In the name of queer love 4: The limits ofdecorum and anger. Roundtable panel sponsored by the LGBTQ Caucus for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, 2011. Collaborative presentation with Meredith Bagley, Daniel Brouwer, Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Dustin Bradley Goltz, Kimberlee Pérez, and Raechel Tiffe.
  • Pantuso, T., Haring, C., & Zingsheim, J. (2011). Pedagogicalpotentials and pitfalls at a working-class university. Panel presented at the annual meeting of the Working Class Studies Association, Chicago, 2011.
  • Zingsheim, J. & Goltz, D. (2010). The intersectional workings of whiteness: A representative anecdote. Top Faculty Paper Award, Intercultural Communication Division. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Central States Communication Association, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 2010.
  • Goltz, D. B., & Zingsheim, J. (2010). Performing collaboration: Relational loves and labors in the conception, direction, and presentation of performance research. Panel sponsored by the Performance Studies division for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, San Francisco, 2010. Collaborative presentation.
  • Zingsheim, J. (2010). In the name of queer love 3: Queering coalitional politics. Roundtable panel sponsored by the LGBTQ Caucus for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, San Francisco, 2010. Collaborative presentation with Meredith Bagley, Daniel Brouwer, Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Dustin Bradley Goltz, Sheena Malhotra, and Raechel Tiffe.
  • X-Men evolution: Mutational identity theory and the shifting subjectivities of the X-Men. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, 2009.
  • We’re here, we’re mutants, get used to it!: Developing mutational identity theory. Top Faculty Paper Award, Communication Theory division. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Central States Communication Association, St. Louis, Missouri, 2009.
  • Performing [theorizing] ‘Resistant privilege.’ Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western States Communication Association, Denver, 2008.
  • Return of the public: Reclaiming the literary public sphere. Paper presented the annual meeting of the Western States Communication Association, Seattle, Washington, 2007.
  • X-Identity: Mutant ideologies of the X-Men films. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, Illinois, 2007.
  •  Daddy depot: The discursive construction of soon-to-be fathers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, San Antonio, Texas, 2006.
  • Lost: Confessions of a control freak. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, San Antonio, Texas, 2006.
  •  Wringing out diversity: The ideological agenda(s) of SpongeBob SquarePants. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western States Communication Association, Palm Springs, California, 2006. 
  •  Representative anecdote: A comic corrective for studies of whiteness. as Top Student Paper Award, Communication Theory interest group. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western States Communication Association, Palm Springs, California, 2006.
  •  Flipping through the channels: A performative look at whiteness on television. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western States Communication Association, San Francisco, California, 2005.
  •  A standpoint of privilege. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Boston, 2005.
  • Raceless in Seattle: A critical rhetorical analysis of ‘Frasier’. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, Tempe, Arizona, 2004.
  •  Laughing with/at whiteness: A critical rhetorical analysis of ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ and ‘My Wife and Kids’. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, 2004.
  • White laughter: Rhetorical strategies of whiteness in ‘Friends’. Top Four Papers Award, Intercultural Communication. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western States Communication Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2004.
  •  Teaching in silence: Rhetorical strategies of whiteness in ‘Boston Public’. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western States Communication Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2004.   
  • Spotlighting stability and change in Chicago LGBTQ activism. Panel organizer and moderator for roundtable panel sponsored by the LGBTQ Caucus for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, 2009.
  •  In the name of queer love 2: Normative shame and queer temporality. Roundtable panel sponsored by the LGBTQ Caucus for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, 2009. Collaborative presentation with Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Dustin Goltz, and Kimberlee Perez.
  •  In the name of queer love: The politics, poetics, and performances of queer relations. Roundtable panel sponsored by the LGBTQ Division for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, San Diego, 2008. Collaborative presentation with Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Dustin Goltz, and Kimberlee Perez.
  •  Queered faiths: Responses, reflections, and potentials for faith-based communication. Roundtable panel sponsored by the LGBTQ Caucus for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, 2007. Session organizer with Dustin Goltz. My individual contribution focuses on critical pedagogy.
     Queer mutants or mutating queer?: The intersectional politics of the X-Men films. Panel presentation for the annual meeting of the Western States Communication Association, Seattle, Washington, 2007. Session organizer with Dustin Goltz
  • Carey, C., McKinnon, S., and Zingsheim, J. (2004). Managing interaction: The use of interactive management as a research and pedagogical method in examining diversity on college campuses.  Panel presentation at the annual meeting of the Western States Communication Association, San Francisco, California, 2005.
  • Carey, C., McKinnon, S., and Zingsheim, J. (2004). Recognizing the challenges of team facilitation: Reflections of student-practitioners in constructing challenges to diversity. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, 2004.
     

Research

  • Communication of Identity
  • Whiteness
  • Cultural Studies
  • Critical Pedagogy

Service

  • 2008 Editorial Board Member, Journal of International and Intercultural  Communication
  • 2009 Reviewer, Communication Theory Division of the Central States Communication Association. 
  • 2007 Reviewer, GLBTQ Studies Division, Caucus on LGBTQ Concerns, and Critical
  • Cultural Studies Divisions of the National Communication Association.
  • 2007 Reviewer, Performance Studies, Media Studies, and Communication Theory
  • Interest Groups of the Western States Communication Association.
  • 2007 Performer, Miss Scarlett and Her Imaginary FriendsWestern States Communication Association in Seattle, WA
  • 2004 Ad hoc Reviewer, Western Journal of Communication
  • 2009 Curriculum Redesign Committee Member
  • 2009 Search Committee Member – Latino Center for Excellence Title V Cohort Advisor
  • 2009 CommCentral Website Oversight
  • 2008 Search Committee Member - Media Communication position

 

Professional Memberships

  • National Communication Association
  • Central States Communication Association
  • Western States Communication Association
  • Rhetoric Society of America
  • Society for Cinema and Media Studies