New Publication by Dr. Lore/tta LeMaster in Communication Education
We are pleased to congratulate Dr. Lore/tta LeMaster, Associate Professor in Queer Studies and Social Justice Education, on a recent publication: “” was published in Communication Education in December 2025.
The article was imagined and written in neurodivergent collaboration with Dr. Corey Reutlinger, Dr. LeMaster's former mentee. Key to the work is a call for cross-rank theorizing in educative contexts — here, a collaboration between contingent and tenure stream faculty members laboring in the same academic unit.
An excerpt from the abstract reads as follows:
This collaborative autie-ethnography centers labor—in and beyond the classroom—to call for coalitional theorizations of teaching that labor toward our collective survival and wellness from the perspective of neurodivergent thinking, writing, and worlding critical communication pedagogy (CCP), otherwise. To model our efforts, we reflect on the intentional act of shifting to an ungrading model with specific focus on: (1) theorizing cross-rank means of facilitating change as neurodivergent teacher-learners and (2) the felt sensation of unlearning the institutional impulse to grade.
Read the article: .
Congratulations to Professor LeMaster on this fascinating contribution to neurodiverse communications and grading through critical communication pedagogy!
