{"id":6,"date":"2019-10-18T18:13:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T18:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/jeffreybennett\/publications\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T04:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T04:09:20","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/jeffreybennett\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>JOURNAL ARTICLES<\/h2>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, &#8220;<em>QED<\/em>, the Culture Wars, and a Renewed Focus on the Local,&#8221;\u00a0<em>QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking\u00a0<\/em>11.3 (2024): 105-110. <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2026\/05\/QED-at-10.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, &#8220;Utopia, Apocalypse, and Queer Effacement on\u00a0<em>The Last of Us<\/em>,&#8221;\u00a0<em>QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking\u00a0<\/em>11.1 (2024): 97-108. <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2025\/09\/Bennett-Last-of-Us.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, &#8220;The Medicalization of the Culture Wars,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Communication and Critical\/Cultural Studies<\/em> 21 (2024): 36-42. <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2024\/07\/Medicalization-of-Culture-Wars.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, &#8220;Narrative Multiplicities and the Politics of Memory in\u00a0<em>The Border of AIDS<\/em>,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Quarterly Journal of Speech\u00a0<\/em>109 (2023): 409-412. <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2023\/12\/Bennett-Narrative-Multiplicities.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, &#8220;Resisting the Rhetoric of Indexing: Disability, Access, and the 2005 Tennessee State Capitol Sit-in,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Communication and Critical\/Cultural Studies <\/em>19 (2022): 235-253.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2023\/12\/Bennett-Sit-In-CCCS.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett and Andrew R. Spieldenner, \u201cDuty and Pleasure in Brouwer&#8217;s HIV Rhetoric,\u201d\u00a0<em>Quarterly Journal of Speech\u00a0<\/em>108 (2022): 185-189. <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2022\/05\/Bennett-and-Spieldenner-Brouwer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, \u201cMourning and Memorializing in the COVID-19 Era,\u201d <em>Communication and Critical\/Cultural Studies <\/em>19\u00a0(2022): 30-36.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2022\/01\/Bennett-Mourning-and-Memorialization.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, \u201cEveryday Life and the Management of Risky Bodies in the COVID-19 Era,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Cultural Studies\u00a0<\/em>35 (2021): 347-357. <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2021\/08\/bennett-cs-covid-080521.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, \u201cContaining Sotomayor: Rhetorics of Personal Restraint, Judicial Prudence, and Diabetes Management,\u201d <em>Quarterly Journal of Speech <\/em>104 (2018): 257-278. <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2019\/10\/Bennett-2019-Sotomayor.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A.\u00a0 Bennett, \u201c\u2018Born This Way\u2019: Queer Vernacular and the Politics of Origins,\u201d <em>Communication and Critical\/Cultural Studies<\/em> 11 (2014): 211-240.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2019\/10\/Bennett-2014-Born-This-Way.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, \u201cThe Critical Interrogation of a Category: An Interview with Jack Halberstam\u201d <em>QED <\/em>1 (2013): 177-192.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2019\/10\/Bennett-2013-Critical-Interrogation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, \u201cTroubled Interventions: Public Policy, Vectors of Disease, and the Rhetoric of Diabetes Management,\u201d <em>Journal of Medical Humanities<\/em> 34 (2013): 15-32.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2019\/10\/Bennett-2013-Troubled-Interventions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, \u201cQueer Teenagers and the Mediation of Utopian Catastrophe,\u201d <em>Critical Studies in Media Communication <\/em>27 (2010): 455-476.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2019\/10\/Bennett-2010-Queer-Teens.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett and Isaac West, \u201c\u2018United We Stand, Divided We Fall\u2019: AIDS, Armorettes, and the Tactical Repertoires of Drag,\u201d <em>Southern Communication Journal <\/em>74 (2009): 300-313.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2019\/10\/Bennett-2009-Drag.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, \u201cPassing, Protesting, and the Arts of Resistance: Infiltrating the Ritual<br \/>\nSpace of Blood Donation,\u201d <em>The Quarterly Journal of Speech <\/em>94 (2008): 23-43.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2019\/10\/Bennett-2008-Passing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Reprinted in <em>Readings on Rhetoric and Performance,<\/em> editors Stephen Olbrys Gencarlla and Phaedra C. Pezzullo. State College, PA: Strata Publishing, 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Invited as a \u201ctranslation essay\u201d entitled \u201cBanning Queer Blood\u201d for <em>Communication Currents <\/em>(2008). Found at: http:\/\/www.communicationcurrents.com\/<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, \u201cIn Defense of Gaydar: Reality Television and the Politics of the Glance,\u201d\u00a0 <em>Critical Studies in Media Communication<\/em> 23 (2006): 408-425.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2019\/10\/Bennett-2006-Gaydar.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, \u201cA Queer Anxiety: Assimilation Politics and Cinematic Hedonics in <em>Relax . . . It\u2019s Just Sex,<\/em>\u201d <em>The Journal of Homosexuality<\/em> 52 (2006): 101-123.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2019\/10\/Bennett-2006-Relax-Its-Just-Sex.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Reprinted in <em>LGBT Studies and Queer Theory: New Conflicts, Collaborations, and Contested Terrain<\/em>, editors Gust Yep, Karen Lovaas, and John Elia. Binghamton:\u00a0 Harrington Park Press, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, \u201cSeriality and Multicultural Dissent in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate,\u201d<br \/>\n<em>Communication and Critical\/Cultural Studies<\/em> 3 (2006): 141-161.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2019\/10\/Bennett-2006-Seriality.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, \u201cLove Me Gender: Normative Homosexuality and \u2018Ex-Gay\u2019 Performativity in Reparative Therapy Narratives,\u201d<em> Text and Performance Quarterly<\/em> 23 (2003): 331-352.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2019\/10\/Bennett-2003-Reparative-Therapy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>EDITED SPECIAL ISSUES<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Lora Arduser and Jeffrey A. Bennett,\u00a0\u201cThe Rhetoric of Chronicity,\u201d\u00a0<em>Rhetoric of Health and Medicine\u00a0<\/em>5 (2022): 123-239. I co-wrote the introduction and co-edited the four essays in the issue. <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2022\/06\/Arduser-and-Bennett.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett and Charles E. Morris, \u201cRhetorical Criticism\u2019s Multitudes,\u201d <em>Review of Communication<\/em> 16 (2016): 1-107. I co-wrote the introduction and co-edited the four major essays and nine editorial statements included in the issue. <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2019\/10\/Bennett-2006-Multitudes.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>BOOK CHAPTERS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, &#8220;COVID and Doubt: An Emergent Structure of Feeling,&#8221;\u00a0<em>COVID and&#8230;How to do Rhetoric in a Pandemic<\/em>, eds. Emily Winderman, Allison L. Rowland, and Jennifer Malkowski (Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2023), 235-254. <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2023\/12\/Bennett-Covid-and-Doubt.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, &#8220;Crip Theory,&#8221; <em>Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication<\/em>, ed. Isaac West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022). <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2024\/07\/Bennett-Crip-Theory.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, &#8220;Diabetes Twitter: A Communal Retort to Capitalism,&#8221; <em>(Un)doing Diabetes: Representation, Disability, Culture<\/em>, eds. Bianca C. Frazer and Heather R. Walker (New York: Palgrave, 2022), 23-41. <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2022\/01\/Bennett-Diabetes-Twitter.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, \u201cDiving into the Past: Greg Louganis, Queer Memory, and the Cultural Politics of HIV Management,\u201d <em>Sport, Rhetoric, and Political Struggle<\/em>, eds. Michael Butterworth and Daniel Grano (New York: Peter Lang, 2019): 71-84.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2019\/10\/Bennett-Diving-Into-the-Past.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, \u201cChronic Citizenship: Community, Choice, and Queer Controversy\u201d in <em>Biocitizenship: Lively Subjects, Embodied Sociality, and Posthuman Politics<\/em>, eds. Kelly Happe, Jenell Johnson, and Marina Levina (New York: NYU Press, 2018): 95-116.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2019\/10\/Bennett-Chronic-Citizenship.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Isaac West and Jeffrey A. Bennett, \u201cTomorrow Be-Longs to Us,\u201d <em>Queer Praxis: Questions for LGBTQ Worldmaking<\/em>, eds. Dustin Bradley Goltz and Jason Zingsheim (New York: Peter Lang, 2015): 249-259.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2019\/10\/Tomorrow-Be-Longs-to-Us.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, \u201cA Stitch in Time: Public Emotionality and the Repertoire of Citizenship,\u201d in <em>Remembering the AIDS Quilt, <\/em>ed. Charles E. Morris III (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2011): 133-158.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2019\/10\/Bennett-Stitch-in-Time.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>FORUMS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett, \u201cHow to Survive a Presidency,\u201d\u00a0<em>QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking<\/em> 7 (2020): 102-108. <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2021\/08\/Bennett-How-to-Survive-A-Presidency.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cathryn Molloy, Cristy Beemer, Jeffrey Bennett, Ann Green, Jenell Johnson, Molly Kessler, Maria Novotny, Bryna Siegel-Finer, \u201cDialogue on Personal Narrative and Medicine,\u201d <em>Rhetoric of Health and Medicine <\/em>1 (2018): 349-371.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2019\/10\/Bennett-2018-RHM-Forum.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey A. Bennett \u201c202 Bullets,\u201d <em>QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking <\/em>3 (2016): 151-153. <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3303\/2019\/10\/Bennett-2016-202-Bullets.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOURNAL ARTICLES Jeffrey A. Bennett, &#8220;QED, the Culture Wars, and a Renewed Focus on the Local,&#8221;\u00a0QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking\u00a011.3 (2024): 105-110. PDF Jeffrey A. Bennett, &#8220;Utopia, Apocalypse, and Queer Effacement on\u00a0The Last of Us,&#8221;\u00a0QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking\u00a011.1 (2024): 97-108. PDF Jeffrey A. 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