University of New Mexico
Department of Communication & Journalism
UNM Lobo  
Shinsuke Eguchi, Ph.D.
 Ph.D., Howard University, 2011
 Office: Room 224
 seguchi@unm.edu

Assistant Professor 
Communication 

Profile:

Dr. Shinsuke Eguchi's research and teaching interests are in intercultural communication, gender and GLBTQ (Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender-Queer) communication studies, Asian and Asian American communication studies, and critical ethnography. Prior to joining the C&J Department in Fall 2012, Dr. Eguchi was a post-doctoral fellow on transnationalism, diaspora, and migration in the communication studies department at University of Denver. He is originally from Japan.

Research:

My current area of research is the critical/interpretive approach to inter/cultural communication. Particularly, I am interested in studying following areas: Cultural Identity and Negotiation; Intercultural Relationships; Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality; Gender (mostly Men's and Masculinities') and Queer Studies; Transnationalism, Diaspora, and Migration; Critical Ethnography. The following questions (which will be always progressing) lead my current research direction:
  • How do migrants negotiate their identity positionings intersecting with the role of transnationalism and diaspora?
  • What is the unique and particular "Intersectional" knowledge embedded in the material realities of GLBTQ (Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender-Queer) people of color?
  • How do gay/bisexual/queer men (of color in particular) perform their masculinities intersecting with culture, ethnicity, nationality, and class?
  • What is the unique and particular cultural and performative challenge emerged from intercultural same-sex relationships among GLBTQ people?
  • How do GLBTQ people negotiate their performative aspects of gender, sexuality, and body in the professional contexts?
  • What is the dynamic of Inter/Asian-Pacific communication in the context of today's transnationalism?
  • What is the role of transnationalism in producing and reproducing the Japanese popular-cultural representations of gender, sexuality, and body?

Sample Publications:

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Review Articles

Teaching Style: I view the university classroom as an intellectually interactive space in which seminar participants actively embark on their own journeys to make sense of their own questions relating to inter/cultural communication. Particularly, I would like to assist students to critically and creatively develop their deeper understanding of inter/cultural communication through multiple pedagogical methods such as critical readings of academic articles, class discussions and activities, films, group presentations, and research papers. I bring to teaching my own intellectual passions and research interests on inter/cultural communication. Thus, I am strongly devoted to developing an academic advising relationship with my students. By doing so, my goal is to assist students to become active members of an intellectual community and to successfully interact with people from different cultural backgrounds (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, ability/disability, etc) in this twenty-first century transnational and transcultural community.

Service: As an officer, I am currently serving the National Communication Association's (NCA) Asian/Pacific Americans Communication Studies Division & Caucus and the Eastern Communication Association's (ECA) Intercultural Communication Interest group. Also, I have been reviewing papers for both NCA and ECA. Moreover, I have served as a guest manuscript reviewer for a couple of journals in the discipline.

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