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Biography

Shinsuke Eguchi (Ph.D., Howard University, 2011) is Professor of Intercultural Communication in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico. Their research interests focus on global and transcultural studies, queer of color critique, intersectionality and racialized gender politics, Asian/American studies, and performance studies. More specifically, Professor Eguchi deploys queer of color critique to examine the interlocking systems of power and domination rooted in socially constructed categories of differences, such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, nation, coloniality, language, and the body. They privilege an intersectional queer analytic that centralizes historically saturated and cultural nuances of knowledge(s) emerged from lived experiences of minoritized sexual and gender people of color. It interrogates the complexities and contradictions of power, social institutions, interactions, and processes. Their mobilization of queer of color critique elaborates the issues and concerns of globalization, transnationalism, postcolonialism, migration, or diaspora grounded in social activism and advocacy.

Professor Eguchi is Author of Asians loving Asians: Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics (Peter Lang, 2022). Their recent solo-authored and co-authored work has appeared for publication in Communication, Culture, and Critique, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Review of Communication, Western Journal of Communication, Women’s Studies in Communication, and Journal of Homosexuality. They are co-editor of Intercultural Communication in Japan (2017, Routledge), coeditor of Queer Intercultural Communication (2020, Rowman & Littlefield), coeditor of De-Whitening Intersectionality (2020, Lexington Press), coeditor of Transnationalizing Critical Intercultural Communication (2024, Peter Lang), and coeditor of Routledge Handbook of Ethnicity and Race in Communication (2024, Routledge).

Why Africana Studies?

Professor Eguchi has two major reasons to humbly accept the invitation to affiliate with Africana Studies. First, Professor Eguchi is a transnational queer of color scholar who examines socially constructed categories of differences such as race, ethnicity, nationality, coloniality, and the body. Their research interests intellectually align with the Africana Studies’ mission to have UNM students generate better understandings of the transnational and diasporic linkages between people of Africa and African descended people. Second, Professor Eguchi is an alumnus of Howard University, a historically Black private research university also known as “The Mecca.” And they are committed to practice what they have learned from The Mecca through their teaching at and service to the UNM. Professor Eguchi is very much looking forward to collaborating with the faculty, staff, and students from Africana Studies.