Loretta LeMaster
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STAUF A349 Tempe, AZ 85287-1205
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Mail code: 1205Campus: Tempe
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Lore/tta LeMaster (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale) (pronouns: she/they) is an award-winning scholar and artist who engages the intersectional constitution of cultural difference with particular focus on trans and queer of color life, art, and embodiment. Her work braids the social sciences with the humanities in service of liberatory political praxes. Recent research includes critical qualitative investigations into trans life; meta-interrogations of disciplinary complacencies in U.S. settler empire-making; the rhetorical construction of transness in monstrous terms; and performative explorations of sensorial economies.
- Ph.D. Communication Studies, SIU Carbondale, 2016
- M.A. Communication Studies, CSU Long Beach, 2010
- B.A. Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, CSU Long Beach, 2007
Lore/tta LeMaster (she/they) is a critical/cultural communication and performance scholar. Her scholarship engages the intersectional constitution of cultural difference with particular focus on queer and trans of color life, art, and embodiment. They utilize both text-centered methods as well as performative and critical field methods such as autoethnography, critical and performance ethnography, and arts-based approaches. The critical rhetorics that help shape their intersectional lens include: critical (mixed-)race, queer and queer of color, transfeminist, and critical disability/crip theories.
Courses
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 241 | Intro to Oral Interpretation |
| COM 442 | Identity, Perf, Human Comm |
| COM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| COM 493 | Honors Thesis |
| COM 799 | Dissertation |
| COM 792 | Research |
2025 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 799 | Dissertation |
| COM 799 | Dissertation |
| COM 690 | Reading and Conference |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 799 | Dissertation |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| COM 493 | Honors Thesis |
| COM 691 | Seminar |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| COM 493 | Honors Thesis |
| COM 799 | Dissertation |
| COM 792 | Research |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 799 | Dissertation |
| COM 799 | Dissertation |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 792 | Research |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 316 | Gender and Communication |
| COM 382 | Classroom Apprenticeship |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 799 | Dissertation |
| CMN 599 | Thesis |
| COM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| COM 493 | Honors Thesis |
| COM 691 | Seminar |
| COM 690 | Reading and Conference |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 316 | Gender and Communication |
| COM 792 | Research |
| CMN 599 | Thesis |
| COM 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| COM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| COM 493 | Honors Thesis |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 799 | Dissertation |
| COM 792 | Research |
2023 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 799 | Dissertation |
| COM 799 | Dissertation |
| COM 792 | Research |
| CMN 590 | Reading and Conference |
| COM 690 | Reading and Conference |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 799 | Dissertation |
| COM 316 | Gender and Communication |
| CMN 599 | Thesis |
| CMN 592 | Research |
| COM 691 | Seminar |
| COM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| COM 493 | Honors Thesis |
| COM 690 | Reading and Conference |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 604 | Theory Construction in Comm |
| COM 792 | Research |
| CMN 599 | Thesis |
| COM 690 | Reading and Conference |
| COM 690 | Reading and Conference |
| COM 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| COM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| COM 493 | Honors Thesis |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 799 | Dissertation |
| COM 792 | Research |
2022 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 799 | Dissertation |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 692 | Research |
| COM 692 | Research |
| CMN 590 | Reading and Conference |
| COM 690 | Reading and Conference |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 799 | Dissertation |
| COM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| COM 493 | Honors Thesis |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 394 | Special Topics |
| COM 691 | Seminar |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 604 | Theory Construction in Comm |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 799 | Dissertation |
| COM 442 | Identity, Perf, Human Comm |
| COM 690 | Reading and Conference |
| COM 691 | Seminar |
| COM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| COM 692 | Research |
| COM 493 | Honors Thesis |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 799 | Dissertation |
2021 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 692 | Research |
| COM 692 | Research |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 691 | Seminar |
| COM 607 | Contemporary Rhetorical Method |
| COM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| COM 493 | Honors Thesis |
| COM 792 | Research |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 323 | Comm Approach Popular Culture |
| COM 604 | Theory Construction in Comm |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 442 | Identity, Perf, Human Comm |
| COM 690 | Reading and Conference |
2020 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 692 | Research |
| COM 692 | Research |