Bryant Keith Alexander, PhD
Associate Dean, Professor, Department of Communication Studies
California State University Los Angeles
5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90032-8111
(o) 323.343.5626
(f) 323.343.6440
abryant@calstatela.edu
An active scholar working in the fields of communication, performance, cultural, gender, queer, and pedagogical studies Bryant Keith Alexander is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at California State University Los Angeles. He served as the Supervisor of Graduate Teaching Associates 1998-2004, Acting Chair of the Department of Liberal Studies in 2004-2005, and since 2005 serves as the Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters. Alexander’s teaching, scholarly and administrative life celebrates integrative and interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge, race/culture/gender diversity, student-centered decision making, collaboration and consensus building; as well as an acknowledgement of teaching, scholarship and administration as informing practices of academic professionalism.
Performance Theories in Education: Power, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Identity (Lawrence Erlbaum Press) was his first book co-edited with education scholars Gary Anderson and Bernados Gallegos. His second book, Performing Black Masculinity: Race, Culture, and Queer Identity (Alta Mira Press) won the 2007 Best Book Award from the National Communication Association Ethnography Division. He has received the 2008 Master Teacher Award from the Western States Communication Association Communication and Instruction Interest Group. He received the 2003 Top Published Essay inNational Communication Association Ethnography Division for “Fading, Twisting, and Weaving: An Interpretive Ethnography of the Black Barbershop as Cultural Space” published in Qualitative Inquiry; the 2002 Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award from the Carl Couch Center, Department of Communication Studies University of Northern Iowa for the essay, "(Re)Visioning the Ethnographic Site: Interpretive Ethnography as a Method of Pedagogical Reflexivity and Scholarly Production” later published in Qualitative Inquiry.
Along with other awards, Alexander’s scholarship appears in a wide range of journals and book volumes including the Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies (SAGE); the Handbook of Performance Studies (SAGE); the Handbook of Qualitative Research, Third Edition (SAGE) and the forthcoming Blackwell Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication, (Blackwell Publishing); and the Handbook of Communication and Instruction (SAGE). Alexander has other forthcoming publications in the International Review of Qualitative Research, and the European Journal of Cultural Studies; books chapters on Culture and Manhood; Black Middle-Class Performances; and a chapter in a volume on Remembering the AIDS Quilt.
- Curriculum Vitae
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