Kurt Lindemann

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Check out my article on "Murderball" on Communication Currents

Articles            Chapters            Awards                Editorial            Grants

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Lindemann, K. (in press). Access-Ability and Disability: Performing Stigma, Writing Trauma. Journal of the Northwest Communication Association.

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

Cherney, J.L. & Lindemann, K. (in press). Wrestling With Extremes: Steroids, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Chris Benoit. In Wenner, L.A. (Ed.) Fallen Sports Heroes, Media, and Celebrity Culture. 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

Text and Performance Quarterly, 2009-present

Western Journal of Communication, 2011-present

Manuscript Reviewer

Communication Theory

Critical Studies in Media Communication

Disability Studies Quarterly

Journal of Communication

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Text and Performance Quarterly

Western Journal of Communication

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Funded Research Grants

Lindemann, K. PI. (Fall 2006). International Narratives of Disability: The Role of     Communication in Physical Rehabilitation Through Sport Recreation. San Diego State University. $4, 625.

Lindemann, K. PI. (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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