fbpx

Degrees

  • B.A., Marmara University 1998
  • M.A., Ohio University 2001
  • M.A., University of Northern Iowa 2003
  • Ph.D., Southern Illinois University 2009
Areas of Interest

Transnational communication and media studies; technology and new media; cultural identity and globalization; diaspora and postcolonial studies; cultural studies and media; representation of gender, race, ethnicity and sexuality in media and visual culture; critical communication pedagogy; autoethnography.

Courses Taught
  • COMM 111: Public Speaking
  • COMM 130: Radio Workshop
  • COMM 227: Intercultural Communication
  • COMM 233: Mediated Gender, Race and Sexuality
  • COMM 235: Media, Culture and Society
  • COMM 299: Serial Narratives and Social Justice
  • COMM 311: Human Communication Theories
  • COMM 332: Visual Communication and Culture
  • COMM 350: Transnational Queer Cinema
  • COMM 350: British Media and Cinema
  • COMM 350: Advanced Seminar in Communication Studies: Auto-ethnography and Identity
  • COMM 401: Junior Independent Study
  • COMM 451/452: Senior Independent Study
  • First Year Seminar: British Media and Culture
Publications

Books:

Atay, Ahmet and Margaret D’Silva, eds. Intercultural Communication, Identity, and Social Movements in the Digital Age. New York, Routledge. (In Press).

Atay, Ahmet and Deanna Fassett, eds. Mediated Communication Pedagogy. Lanham, MD: Peter Lang. Lexington. (In Press).

Cristiano, Anthony and Ahmet Atay, eds. Millennials and Media Ecology: Theoretical
and Analytical Overviews Across Social, Pedagogical, and Political Environments. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Atay, Ahmet and Margaret D’Silva, eds. Mediated Intercultural Communication in a
Digital Age. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Ashlock, Mary Z. and Ahmet Atay, eds. From Theory to Practice: Examining
Millennials Reshaping Organizational Cultures. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books,
2018.

Atay, Ahmet and Mary Z. Ashlock, eds. Millenial Culture and Communication Pedagogies: Narratives from the Classroom and Higher Education. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2018.

Atay, Ahmet and Satoshi Toyosaki, eds. Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018.

Atay, Ahmet and Jay Brower, eds. Communication, Culture, and Making Meaning in Urban Environments: Ethnographic Engagements of the City. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017. (In Press)

Atay, Ahmet and Diana Trebing, eds. The Discourse of “Special Populations”: Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy and Practice. New York: Routledge, 2017. (In Press)

Atay, Ahmet, and Mary Ashlock, eds. The Discourse of Disability in Communication Education: Narrative-Based Research for Social Change. New York: Peter Lang. 2016. Print.

Atay, Ahmet. Globalization’s Impact on Cultural Identity Formation: Queer Diasporic Males in Cyberspace. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. Print.

Articles

Atay, Ahmet. Digital Bodies, Digital Lives, and Digital Stories. International Review of Qualitative Research. (In Press).

Atay, Ahmet. What is Cyber and Digital Autoethnography? International Review of Qualitative Research. (In Press).

Atay, Ahmet. Merit, Diversity, and Resilience: An International Faculty Perspective. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. (In Press).

Atay, Ahmet. “Soap Opera Fandom in Australia.” Australian Fandom: Online, Offline
and Transcultural Spaces.Eds. Celia Lam and Michelle Kent. University of Iowa Press. (In Press).

Atay, Ahmet. “Transnational Queer Communication Pedagogy.” Eds. Ahmet Atay and Sandra L. Pensoneau-Conway. Queering Communication Pedagogy. Routledge. (In Press).

Atay, Ahmet and Sandra L. Pensoneou-Conway. “Queering Communication Pedagogy.” Eds. Ahmet Atay and Sandra L. Pensoneau-Conway. Queering Communication Pedagogy. Routledge.
(In Press).

Lengel, Lara, Yannick Kluch, and Ahmet Atay. “Decolonising Gender and Intercultural
Communication in Transnational Contexts.”The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication. Eds. Guido Rings and Sebastian Rasinger. Cambridge University Press. (In Press).

Atay, Ahmet. “The Role of Diversity in Mediated Critical Communication Pedagogy.” Eds. Ahmet Atay and Deanna Fassett. Mediated Critical Communication Pedagogy. Lexington Books. (In Press).

Atay, Ahmet and Deanna Fassett. “Defining Mediated Critical Communication Pedagogy.” Eds. Ahmet Atay and Deanna Fassett. Mediated Critical Communication Pedagogy. Lexington Books.
(In Press).

Atay, Ahmet. “Intercultural Queer Slippages and Translations.” Queer Intercultural
CommunicationStudies: In and Across Local, National, and Transnational Contexts. Eds. Shinsuke Eguchi and Bernadette Calafell. Rowman and Littlefield. (In Press).

Atay, Ahmet. “Leading with Diversity: Inclusive Critical Leadership.” Between Complacency and Doom: Enacting Critical Principles in Higher Education Administration. Eds. Jay Brower and Benjamin Myers. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. (In Press).

Atay, Ahmet. “Communication is Digital.” Communication Is. Eds. Adam Tyma and Autumn Edwards. Cognella. (In Press).

Atay, Ahmet. “Transnational and Postcolonial Turn: Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy.” Internationalizing the Communication Curriculum in an Age of Globalization: Why, What, and How. Eds. Esther Yook, Paaige Turner, Eddah Mutua, and Soumia Bardhan. Routledge. (In Press).

Atay, Ahmet. “Millennial Generation, New Media, and Convergence Culture.”
Millennials and Media Ecology: Theoretical and Analytical Overviews Across Social, Pedagogical, and Political Environments.Eds. Anthony Cristiano and Ahmet Atay. Routledge, 2019.

Cristiano, Anthony, and Ahmet Atay. “Millennials and Media Ecology: Challenges and
Future Prospects.” Millennials and Media Ecology: Theoretical and Analytical Overviews Across Social, Pedagogical, and Political Environments. Eds. Anthony Cristiano and Ahmet Atay. Routledge, 2019.

Atay, Ahmet. “Examination of Transnational Geolocation-Based Online Dating and Hook Up Applications.” Ahmet Atay and Margaret D’Silva, Eds. Mediated Intercultural Communication in a Digital Age. New York: Routledge. 2019. 99-110.

Atay, Ahmet and Margaret D’Silva. “New Directions in Mediated Intercultural Communication.” Ahmet Atay and Margaret D’Silva, eds. Mediated Intercultural Communication in a Digital Age. New York: Routledge. 2019. 1-6

Atay, Ahmet. “Diverse Millennials and Organization Change.” From Theory to Practice:
Examining Millennials Reshaping Organizational Cultures. Eds. Ashlock, Mary Z. and Ahmet Atay. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2019. 193-202.

Ashlock, Mary Z. and Ahmet Atay. “Millennials in Organizations: An Introduction.”
From Theory to Practice: Examining Millennials Reshaping Organizational Cultures. Eds. Mary Z.

Atay, Ahmet. Digital Life Writing: The Failure of a Diasporic Queer Blue Tinker Bell. Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture 9 (2). (In Press)

Atay, Ahmet. “Wangari Maathai’s Rhetorical Vision: Empowerment through Education.” Planting the Future: The Rhetorical Legacy of Wangari Maathai. Eds. Alberto Gonzalez, Eddah Mbula Mutua, and Anke Wolbert. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. (In Press)

Atay, Ahmet. “Diversity in Millennial Generation: Diversifying Pedagogical Approaches.” Millennial Culture and Communication Pedagogies: Narratives from the Classroom and Higher Education. Eds. Ahmet Atay and Mary Z. Ashlock. Lanham, MD. Lexington Books. (In Press)

Atay, Ahmet and Mary Z. Ashlock. “Introduction.” Millennial Culture and Communication Pedagogies: Narratives from the Classroom and Higher Education. Eds. Ahmet Atay and Mary Z. Ashlock. Lanham, MD. Lexington Books. (In Press)

Atay, Ahmet and Satoshi Toyosaki. Crossing Paths: Intercultural Collaborations. Communication Studies, 69, 4, 366-371. 2018.

Atay, Ahmet and Alberto Gonzalez. Introduction: Intercultural Studies within Central States. Communication Studies, 69, 4, 337-340. 2018.

Atay, Ahmet. “Mediated Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy.” Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy. Eds. Ahmet Atay and Satoshi Toyosaki. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2018. 179-194.

Toyosaki, Satoshi and Ahmet Atay. “Introduction.” Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy. Eds. Ahmet Atay and Satoshi Toyosaki. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2018. xii-xvi.

Atay, Ahmet. Journey of Errors: Finding Home in Academia. Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies 18, 1 16-22. 2018.

Chawla, Devika and Ahmet Atay. “Introduction: Decolonizing Autoethnography.” Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies 18, 1, 3-8. 2018.

Pensoneau-Conway, Sandra L. and Ahmet Atay. Introduction. Critical Communication Pedagogy and Social Change. Communication Teacher, 31, 1, 1-2. 2017.

Atay, Ahmet and Jay Brower. “Introduction: Separately Together in the City.” Communication, Culture, and Making Meaning in Urban Environments: Ethnographic Engagements of the City. Eds. Ahmet Atay and Jay Brower. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2017. ix-xiii.

Atay, Ahmet. “Post-Industrial Cities Under Microscope: Discovering Akron and Northampton.” Communication, Culture, and Making Meaning in Urban Environments: Ethnographic Engagements of the City. Eds. Ahmet Atay and Jay Brower. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2017. 63-76.

Atay, Ahmet. “Queering the Discourse of ‘Special Populations”: Queer (Critical Intercultural) Communication Pedagogy.” Rearticulating the Discourse of “Special Populations”: Critical Intercultural Communication Pedogogy and Practice. Eds. Ahmet Atay and Diana Trebing. New York: Routledge. 2017. 90-108.

Atay, Ahmet and Diana Trebing. “Introduction.” Rearticulating the Discourse of “Special Populations”: Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy and Practice. Eds. Ahmet Atay and Diana Trebing. New York: Routledge. 2017. 1-8.

Atay, Ahmet, Theorizing Diasporic Queer Digital Homes: Identity, Home and New Media. Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies Journal/JOMEC Journal 11, 96-110. 2017.

Atay, Ahmet. “Mediated Mentoring: Critical, Feminist, and Queer Pedagogies in “The Prime of Miss Jane Brodie” and “Billy Elliott.”” Teaching and Learning on Screen: Mediated Pedagogies. Ed. Mark Readman. London: Pelgrave. 2016. 119-134.

Atay, Ahmet. A Response to the Orlando Shooting: Queer Communication Pedagogy. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. 3.3. 171-172. 2016

Atay, Ahmet. “Digital Diasporic Experiences in Digital Queer Spaces.” Click and Kin: Transnational Identity and Quick Media. Eds. May Friedman and Silvia Schuldermandl. Toronto, Canada. University of Toronto Press. 2016. 139-158. Print.

Atay, Ahmet. “Agatha Christie’s Queer Characters.” Hercule Poirot Trifft Miss Marple: Agatha Christie. Eds. Judith Kretzschmar, Sebastian Stoppe, Susanne Vollberg. Medien. 2016. 187-201. Print.

Atay, Ahmet. “Making Connection Possible through New Media Technologies: The Usage of Social Media as a Learning Tool for Students with Disabilities.” The Discourse of Disability in Communication Education: Narrative-Based Research for Social Change. Eds. Ahmet Atay and Mary Ashlock. New York: Peter Lang. 2015. Print.

Atay, Ahmet. “Touch of Pink: Diasporic Queer Experiences within Islamic Communities. Islam and Homosexuality. Ed. Samar Habib. Santa Barbara: Praeger. 2010. 445-462. Print.

Atay, Ahmet. Facebooking the Student-Teacher Relationship: How Facebook Is Changing Student-Teacher Relationships. Rocky Mountain Communication Review 6 (1) 71-74. 2009.

Professional Experience
  • Book Series Editor: Transnational Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. (Lexington Books)
  • Book Series Editor: Critical Communication Pedagogy (with Deanna L. Fassett). (Lexington Books)
  • Vice-Chair, National Communication Association International and Intercultural Communication Division (November 2016-Present)
  • Chair, National Communication Association International and Intercultural Communication Division (November 2018-Present)
  • Vice-Chair, Central States Communication Association Ethnicity, Race, International and Class Interest Group (April 2018-Present)
Professional Affiliations
  • National Communication Association
  • Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Association
  • Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association
  • Central States Communication Association
  • European Popular Culture Association
  • Midwest Popular Culture Association
  • Midwest Popular Association