E.M. Pollard

I live, love, and teach on stolen lands stewarded by Sugaree, Catawba, and Cheraw people. Teaching at Davidson College is a life-long dream realized. As an educator, I align myself with engaged pedagogy as articulated by bell hooks; or the radical idea that students are full people with lives and commitments outside of the classroom. My classroom is structured around learning through discussion and case study applications. 

As a Ph.D. candidate in the final stages of my dissertation, I employ qualitative methods (i.e., interviewing, rhetorical, critical/cultural) to challenge oppression and uncover normativities. Often, I find myself utilizing critical race theory, queer Asian American studies, intersectionality, queer women of color scholarship, affect, whiteness, performance, and organizational violence theorizing to get at the heart of complicated, mediated representations of intercultural communication. My work appears in Women's Studies of Communication, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Behavioral Sciences, and The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics.