Kurt Lindemann

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Check out my article on "Murderball" on Communication Currents

Check out my most recent article on grief and masculinity in Rebel magazine

Articles            Chapters            Awards                Editorial            Grants

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Cherney, J.L. & Lindemann, K. (forthcoming). Queering Street: Homosociality, Masculinity, and Disability in Friday Night Lights. Western Journal of Communication.

Lindemann, K. (2012). Access-Ability and Disability: Performing Stigma, Writing Trauma. Journal of the Northwest Communication Association, 40, 129-149.

Lindemann, K. (2011). Performing (Dis)Ability in the Classroom: Pedagogy and (Con)Tensions. Text and Performance Quarterly, 31, 285-302.

Lindemann, K. (2010). Masculinity, Disability, and Access-Ability: Ethnography as Alternative Practice in the Study of Disabled Sexualities. Southern Journal of Communication, 75, 433 - 451.

Lindemann, K. (2010). Cleaning up my (Father’s) mess: Narrative containments of “leaky” masculinities. Qualitative Inquiry, 16, 29-38

Lindemann, K. (2010). Self-reflection and our sporting lives: Communication research in the community of sport. Electronic Journal of Communication, 14(3 & 4). Available online: http://www.cios.org/getfile/019344_EJC.

Lindemann, K. & Cherney, J.L. (2008). Communicating in and through “Murderball”: Masculinity and disability in wheelchair rugby. Western Journal of Communication, 72, 107-125. Lead Article.

Lindemann, K. (2008). “I can’t be standing up out there”: Communicative performances of (dis)ability in wheelchair rugby. Text and Performance Quarterly, 28, 98-115. [Reprinted in Henderson, B. & N. Ostrander (2010). (Eds.) Understanding disability and performance studies. London: Routledge]

Lindemann, K. (2007). A tough sell: Stigma as souvenir in the contested performances of San Francisco’s homeless Street Sheet vendors. Text and Performance Quarterly, 27, 41-57.

Lindemann, K. (2005). Live(s) online: Narrative performance, presence, and community in LiveJournal.com. Text and Performance Quarterly, 25, 354-372.

Lindemann, K.  (2004). Tales of an amateur magician: Embodying grief, loss, and masculinity through performative writing.  Kaleidoscope, 3, 63-69.

Lindemann, K. (2002). Pseudonyms, performance and pedagogy: performing original literature in forensics.  National Forensics Journal, 20, 45-48.

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Reviews published in Peer-Reviewed Journals

Lindemann, K. (2006) Review of Murderball. Disability Studies Quarterly, 26.

Lindemann, K. (2005). Review of Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film. Journal of Communication, 55, 406-408.

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Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

Lindemann, K. & Cherney, J.L. (forthcoming). Communicating legitimacy, visibility, and connectivity: The Functions of new media in adapted sport. In Billings, A.C. & Hardin, M. (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media. London, UK: Routledge.

Cherney, J.L. & Lindemann, K. (2013). Wrestling With Extremes: Steroids, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Chris Benoit. In Wenner, L.A. (Ed.) Fallen Sports Heroes, Media, and Celebrity Culture (pp. 107-119). New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

Cherney, J.L. & Lindemann, K. (2009). Sporting Images of Disability: Murderball and the Rehabilitation of Identity. In Billings, A.C. & Hundley, H. (Eds.) Examining identity in sport media (pp. 195-216). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Lindemann, K. (2007). Connection, collaboration, and community: Effective classroom discussion and lecturing in the basic communication course. In Hugenberg, B., Morreale, S.P., Worley, D. Hugenberg, Lawrence, & Worley, D. (Eds.) Basic communication course best practices: A Training manual for instructors (pp. 91-100). Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt.

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Scholarly Awards

Top Three Paper, Communication and Instruction Division, Western States Communication Association, 2011 (third author with Brian H. Spitzberg and Carmen Lee)

Top Three Paper, Performance Studies Division, Western States Communication Association, 2009

Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award, Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research, 2008

Top Four Paper, Ethnography Division, National Communication Association, 2008

Honorable Mention (Experimental Category), Illinois Distinguished Qualitative Dissertation Award, 2008

Top Paper, Organizational Communication Division, Western States Communication Association, 2006

Top Four Paper, Performance Studies Division, Western States Communication Association, 2005

Outstanding Ph.D. Student Researcher, Arizona State University, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, 2005-2006

Top Overall Paper, Disability Issues Caucus, National Communication Association, 2004

Top Four Paper, Performance Studies Division, National Communication Association, 2004

Top Overall Paper, Performance Studies Division, Western States Communication Association, 2004

Dessie E. Larsen Performance Studies Graduate Fellowship, Arizona State University, 2002-2003

 

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Editorial Boards

Associate Editor, Text and Performance Quarterly, 2008-present
Associate Editor, Western Journal of Communication, 2011-presen

Manuscript Reviewer

Communication Theory
Critical Studies in Media Communication
Disability Studies Quarterly
Health Communication
Journal of Communication
Journal of Language and Social Psychology
Qualitative Communication Research
Text and Performance Quarterly
Western Journal of Communication

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Funded Research Grants

Lindemann, K. Principal Investigator. (Spring 2012). Teaching Healthy Lifestyle Choices: Interactive Performance and Attitude Change Among First-Year College Students. $4543.93. San Diego State University.


Lindemann, K. Principal Investigator.(Fall 2006) International Narratives of Disability: The Role of Communication in Physical Rehabilitation Through Sport Recreation. San Diego State University. $4625.


Lindemann, K. Principal Investigator. (Fall 2005). Men and “Murderball”: Performance of Masculinity as Organizational Culture. Arizona State University Graduate and Professional Student Association. $1,600.

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