Corinne Sugino, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies

Corinne Sugino is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies. Her work focuses on the intersection of Asian American studies, cultural studies, rhetorical theory, and media studies. Her pedagogy seeks to center students as active agents of meaning-making...

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Corinne Sugino, Ph.D.

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Education & Curriculum Vitae

B.A. Study of Religions and Politics & International Affairs, Wake Forest University

M.A. Communication, University of Pittsburgh

Ph.D. Communication, University of Pittsburgh

Courses Taught

COMM 100: Communication and Speech

COMM 350: Politics of Social Memory

COMM 420: Critical/Cultural Communication

COMM 430: Intersectional Communication

Corinne Sugino is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies. Her work focuses on the intersection of Asian American studies, cultural studies, rhetorical theory, and media studies. Her pedagogy seeks to center students as active agents of meaning-making and highlight how communicative processes shape and are shaped by systems of power. For more information on her work, please visit www.corinnesugino.com.

Corinne Mitsuye Sugino (2023). “Asian American Vernacular Print Circuits: (Re)narrating History, Identity, and Solidarity.” In: Routledge Handbook of Ethnicity and Race in Communication, edited by Bernadette Marie Calafell and Shinsuke Eguchi. Routledge.

Corinne Mitsuye Sugino (2022). “Multicultural Anti-Racism: Anti-Blackness and Asian Victimhood in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.” Western Journal of Communication, 86(4): 423-442. https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2022.2087887

Corinne Mitsuye Sugino (2021). “Foreign Intrusions: An Exploration of Asian American Historical Memory through Food-Related Discourses.” Liminalities 17(1/2). http://www.liminalities.net/17-1/

Corinne Mitsuye Sugino (2020). “Multicultural Incorporation in Donald Trump’s Political Rhetoric.” Southern Communication Journal 85(3): 191-202. https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2020.1780301

Corinne Mitsuye Sugino (2020). “Palliative Buddhism: Corporate Exoticization and Appropriation of Mindfulness under Neoliberal Crisis.” Aigne 8(1): 27-46. https://aigne.ucc.ie/index.php/aigne/article/view/1549

Corinne Mitsuye Sugino (2019). “Multicultural Redemption: Crazy Rich Asians and the Politics of Representation.” Lateral 8(2). https://doi.org/10.25158/L8.2.6

Charles Athanasopoulos and Corinne Mitsuye Sugino (Forthcoming). “Clash of the Uncivilized: An Alternative Approach to Policy Debate.” Contemporary Argumentation and Debate.

Corinne Mitsuye Sugino. (Forthcoming) “Transhistorical Resistance and Containment: Space, Place, and Historical Memory at Fort Sill.” In: Migrants: Rhetoric, Resistance, Representation, edited by Arthur Soto-Vásquez, Michael Lechuga, Sergio Juárez, and Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager. Michigan State University Press.