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Zhenyu Tian

Zhenyu Tian

Assistant Professor of Communication Studies; Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (On leave Fall 2025)

Communication Studies, WGSS, Global Queer Studies

Biography

Areas of Interest

Gender and organizing; gendered career/professional experiences; resilience; relational dialectics; women entrepreneurs; sociomateriality/new materialisms; identity construction

Courses Taught

  • COMM 452 Senior Independent Study Thesis

  • COMM 451 Senior Independent Study Thesis

  • COMM 311 Theories of Human Communication

  • COMM 299 Communication and Resilience

  • COMM 262 Communication and Conflict

  • COMM 226 Organizational Communication

  • COMM 225 Small Group Communication

  • COMM 223 Communication, Gender, and Sexuality

  • COMM 152 Public Speaking

  • COMM 111 Introduction to Communication Studies

Selected Publications & Presentations

  • Tian, Z. (forthcoming). "Saying something would be useless": Reconsidering relational dialectics theory by examining how Chinese women entrepreneurs negotiate gendered entrepreneurship and family harmony. Journal of Family Communication.

  • Tian, Z. (2024). "The balance is a forever moving one": Chinese women entrepreneurs' politics of reinscription when encountering nonhuman agents of control. Journal of Applied Communication Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2024.2348537
  • Tian, Z., Kuang, K., Wilson, S. R., Buzzanell, P. M., Ye, J., Mao, X., & Hou, W. (2024). Measuring resilience for Chinese-speaking populations: a systematic review of Chinese resilience scales. Frontiers in Psychology, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1293857
  • Tian, Z. (2023). Suzhi, guanxi, abject body: Nonhuman agents of paradox that perform identity work together with Chinese women political leaders. Management Communication Quarterly, 37(1), 99-126. https://doi.org/10.1177/08933189221095615
  • Kuang, K., Wilson, S., Tian, Z., & Buzzanell, P. M. (2022). Development and validation of a culturally adapted measure of communication resilience processes for Chinese contexts. International Journal of International Relations, 91, 70-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2022.09.003
  • Kuang, K., Tian, Z., Wilson, S., & Buzzanell, P. M. (2021). Memorable messages as anticipatory resilience: Examining associations among memorable messages, communication resilience processes, and mental health. Health Communication. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1993585
  • Tian, Z., & Bush, H. (2020). Half the sky: Interwoven resilience processes of women political leaders in China. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 48(1), 70-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2019.1704829

Professional Affiliations

  • International Communication Association

  • National Communication Association

  • Association for Chinese Communication Studies

  • Central State Communication Association

  • Western Communication Association

Want to learn more?

Interested in Communication Studies, WGSS, Global Queer Studies or have questions about courses? Feel free to reach out!

Contact Zhenyu