Department of Communication Studies

Etsuko Kinefuchi

Assistant Professor

Office: 105 Ferguson Building

Phone: 336-334-5297

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Degrees:

  • Ph.D., Arizona State University
  • M.A., Oregon State University
  • B.A., Oregon State University

Scholarly interests:

Cultural identity development and negotiation, interethnic and interracial relationships, Intersection of identity sites, multiculturalism and pedagogy, transnationalism and diaspora, immigrant and refugee adaptation, building intercultural alliances.

Courses taught:

  • CST 200 Communication and Community
  • CST 399 Communication Research Methods
  • CST 337 Intercultural Communication
  • CST 602 Engaging Communication Research Methodology
  • CST 635 Identity, Culture, and Communication

Recent publications:

Kinefuchi, E. (forthcoming winter/spring 2009). Layers of Nikkei: Japanese diaspora and World War II. In Rona T. Halualani and Thomas K. Nakayama (Ed.), The Blackwell Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication. Blackwell.

Kinefuchi, E. (forthcoming fall 2008). From authenticity to geographies: Unpacking Japaneseness in the construction of Nikkeijin identity. International and Intercultural Communication Annual, 31. 

Kinefuchi, E. & Orbe, M. P. (2008). Situating oneself in racialized world: Understanding student reactions to Crash through standpoint theory and context-positionality frame. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 1(1), 70-90.

Kinefuchi, E. (2008). What’s (not) in a Label?:  Understanding Korean American Adoptee Identity through Self-Identified Labels. In L. A. Samovar, R. E. Porter, & E. R. McDaniel (eds.), Intercultural communication: A reader (12th ed.) (pp. 104-115). Belmont, CA: Thompson.
 

Orbe, M. P. & Kinefuchi, E. (2008). Crash under investigation: Engaging complications of complicity, coherence, and implicature through critical analysis. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 25(2), 135-156.

Fujimoto, E.  (2002).  Japaneseness, whiteness, and the Other in Japan’s Internationalization.  In M. J. Collier (Ed.),  Internationalization, culture, and communication: International and Intercultural Communication Annual, 24 (pp. 1-24).  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Fujimoto, E. (2002).  South Korean Adoptees Growing Up in White America: Negotiating Race and Culture.  In J. Martin, T. K. Nakayama, & L. A. Flores (Eds.), Readings in cultural contexts (2nd ed) (pp. 266-275). Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing.

 

Service:

  • Study Abroad Committee, UNCG, member
  • Inclusive Community Task Force, UNCG, member
  • Scholarship Committee, Communication Studies Dept. chair
  • Journal of International and Intercultural Communication Editorial Board
  • International and Intercultural Communication Annual, vol. 31 Editorial Board
  • National Communication Association member
  • National Communication Association, Asian Pacific American Communication Studies Division Chair, 2005      

 

 

 

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