Phillip Chidester
Associate Professor
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Current Courses
COM 400.008 Independent Study
COM 320.001 Mass Media: Cultural Criticism And Problems
COM 360.001 Mass Media: Theory and Effects
COM 462.001 Seminar In Critical Studies In Mass Communication
Ph D Communication Studies
University of Kansas
MA Communication Studies
University of Kansas
Lawrence
BA Communication
Southern Utah University
Cedar City
Outstanding Reviewer Award
Critical/Cultural Division, AEJMC
2015
Grants and Contracts
Instructional Innovation Grant: SOC Book Club
Lindsey Thomas, Lauren Bratslavsky, Phillip Chidester, Byron Craig, Ashley Hall, K. Megan Hopper.
Illinois State University, Center for Teaching, Learning, & Technology. July 2022 - August 2022
University Teaching Grant: SOC EDI Learning Community Pilot
Byron Craig, Lindsey Thomas, Lauren Bratslavsky, Phillip Chidester, Ashley Hall, K. Megan Hopper.
Illinois State University, Center for Teaching, Learning, & Technology. July 2022 - June 2023
Book, Authored
Screaming for change: Articulating a unifying philosophy of punk rock
L J Kristiansen, Joseph Blaney, Phillip Chidester, Brent Simonds.
(2009), Lexington Books
Book, Chapter
Shattering myths: Brazil's Tropicalia movement
Phillip Chidester, John Baldwin.
(2013), 27-48, Song and social change in Latin America, Lexington
Telling a feature story: What happened?
Phillip Chidester.
(2013), 17-30, Crafting messages in a multimodal media environment: Readings on convergent writing, Kendall-Hunt
Farewell to the Chief: Fan identification and the sports mascot as postmodern image
Phillip Chidester.
(2011), Sports, Fans, Identity, and Socialization: Exploring the Fandemonium, Lexington Books
Journal Article
The simian that screamed “no!”: Rise of the Planet of the Apes and the speculative as public memory.
Phillip Chidester.
Visual Communication Quarterly, 22 (1), 3-14, (2015)
What a cartoon can teach us about race
Phillip Chidester.
Communication Currents, 8 (1), (2013)
"Respect my authori-tah": South Park and the fragmentation/reification of whiteness
Phillip Chidester.
Critical Studies in Media Communication, (2012)
Presentations
: “It’s biology, bitch!”: The Kick-Ass franchise and the superheroine as Hollywood’s final frontier
Phillip Chidester.
U.S.-Brazil Colloquium on Communication Research, Boston, MA, August, 2016
"Keep it strapped": Lil Boosie, Stagger Lee, gangsta rap and authentic blackness as hypermasculinity
Phillip Chidester.
Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, October, 2014
"You better redneckognize!": TLC's Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, the American Dream and racial liminality in the politics of whiteness
Phillip Chidester.
Annual convention, Kansas City, MO, April, 2013
"To See Life as a Poem": Toward a mythology of music
Phillip Chidester.
Annual Convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, St. Louis, MO, August, 2011
Media framing and the midterm elections
Phillip Chidester.
Annual Meeting of the Central States Communication Association, Milwaukee, WI, April, 2011