Feminist mentorship remains in short supply within communication studies and feminist and gender studies. A diverse group of contributors from the undergraduate level to senior scholars use Black feminist, Chicana feminist, and queer lenses to explore feminist mentorship examples in both pedagogical and relationship-building contexts.

The first section draws upon the contributors' unique and situated experiences of mentorship in academia. Essays explore their past and current experiences with feminist mentorship in relationships that take many forms: faculty members with fellow faculty members; faculty members with undergraduate and graduate students; and faculty members who feel as if they have become family with their mentors and mentees. In the second section, the contributors deeply interrogate the practices of feminist mentoring by problematizing practices and offering new ways, places, and formats that make space and consider new possibilities. A conclusion reflects on the future of feminist mentorship amidst contemporary debates and concerns in higher education.

Enriching and hopeful, Queer, Women of Color, and Critical Approaches to Feminist Mentorship and Pedagogy is a much-needed challenge to traditional forms of mentorship.

| Cover Title Copyright Contents Foreword AnaLouise Keating Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction A Coming Together: Stevie M. Munz, Leandra H. Hernández, and Jessica Pauly Part I Situated Experiences of Mentorship in Academia 1 No Place/Like Home: Building a Black Feminist Mentoring Paradigm on the Cornerstones of Sanctuary by Celnisha L. Dangerfield 2 Marginal Bodies: Black Feminist Mentoring as Critical Memory Praxis by Patricia G. Davis and Brittany Clottey 3 Interweaving Roles through Testimonio and Participatory Mentorship by Marí Linares and Calley Marotta 4 Comadrisma: A Chicana Feminist Collective Approach to Writing, Editing, and Mentorship Sarah De Los Santos Upton, Leandra H. Hernández, and Amanda R. Martinez 5 Dance Parties at Midnight: Nurturing Bonds of Queer Elderhood across Time and Place by Bryant Taylor and Shantel Martinez 6 Scattered Bodies Swimming Upstream: An Ecological Approach to the Politics of Gay Men in Feminist Mentorships by Mick B. Brewer Part II Interrogations and Futurities 7 Toward a Feminist Practice of Deviant Mentorship Samantha Gillespie-Hoffman, Amanda N. Brand, and Jenna N. Hanchey 8 A Critical Feminist Perspective for Disrupting Mentoring by Victoria McDermott and Lindsey B. Anderson 9 Syllabus Unfinishing(s) Unfinished Syllabus-ing as Multi-sited Feminist Mentoring by Liliana Herako, Ming-Tso Chien, Rebecca Buchanan, Karen N. Pelletreau, and Kevin Roberge 10 Mentoring Away from Digital Inevitability: Feminist Consciousness and Platform Surveillance Capitalism by Jessica Gantt-Shafer and Mary Onisiphorou 11 An Intersectional Approach toward Feminist Mentoring and Teaching in the Postpandemic Classroom by Satarupa Dasgupta Conclusion Intersectional Feminist Mentorship: Contemporary Considerations and Feminist Futures by Leandra H. Hernández, Stevie M. Munz, and Jessica Pauly Index Back Cover | "This anthology makes a necessary intervention in the theories and practices of feminist mentorship. Taken together, the essays illuminate and forward invaluable ways for rethinking, reframing, reimagining what feminist mentoring can and should be."
—Devika Chawla, author of Home, Uprooted: Oral Histories of India's Partition
|Leandra H. Hernández is an associate professor of communication at the University of Utah. She is the coeditor of Supporting the Military-Affiliated Learner: Communication Approaches to Military Pedagogy and Education and other...