Jenna N. Hanchey
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Mail code: 1205Campus: Tempe
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Jenna Hanchey is continually searching for liberatory futures, reflecting over the racial and colonial legacies of our pasts, and laboring to enact justice in the present. Her essays engage decolonial possibility in, through, and beyond the collapse of “realities” that developmental logics take for granted. Her creative work explores these possibilities further, plumbing the depths of grief, centering intimacies, and engendering hope.
Her first book, The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO, examines how decolonial potential can emerge from the collapse of neocolonial aid and development structures. Her second book, Decolonial Dreamwork: Africanfuturism and Imagination Beyond Development, examines how African speculative fiction imagines continental futures that challenge, reinvent, and eschew Western logics of development, and encourages everyone to imagine in solidarity with African creators. The book is forthcoming from The Ohio State University Press, and is supported by a 2024 Waterhouse Family Institute Grant, 2022 NEH Summer Stipend, 2023 ASU Humanities Institute Research Seed Grant, and Transformation Project Seed Grant.
Her academic work may also be found in Feminist Africa; Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies; Journal of International and Intercultural Communication; Review of Communication; Communication, Culture & Critique; Women's Studies in Communication; Women & Language; Departures in Critical Qualitative Research; and Management Communication Quarterly, among other venues. She co-edited a double issue of The Review of Communication with Dr. Godfried Asante on "(Re)theorizing Communication Studies from African Perspectives," published in Fall 2021 and Spring 2022.
Her public criticism can be found in the LA Review of Books, Ancillary Review of Books, Strange Horizons, and ASAP Review, among other venues.
Dr. Hanchey's research has won a number of awards, including the NCA Organizational Communication Division Oustanding Monograph Award, the International Association of Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry's Ellis-Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research Award, NCA Ethnography Division Best Special Issue Award, NCA Philosophy of Communication Division Distinguished Themed Edited Journal Award, NCA Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division Early Career Award, NCA Critical and Cultural Studies Division New Investigator Award, OFRGC Feminist Scholar of the Year Award, NCA Critical and Cultural Studies Division Outstanding Article Award, NCA Feminist & Gender Studies Division Outstanding Article Award, NCA Ethnography Division Best Article Award, and NCA Critical & Cultural Studies Division Outstanding Dissertation Award, among others.
She is the cocreator and cohost of Griots & Galaxies, a limited-edition podcast speculating African futures. Griots & Galaxies is produced by the ASU Center for Science and the Imagination and supported by the ASU Institute for Humanities Research and the Transformation Project. She is also a cohost on Just Keep Writing.
In addition to studying Africanfuturism, she is a British Science Fiction Association award-shortlisted speculative fiction writer and audio narrator, as well as speculative poet and collage artist. Her recent creative work includes "Five Medicines You Found in the Garden of Unfinished Poems," in Strange Horizons, "Hello, This is Automatic Antigrief: What Problem Can I Solve for You Today?" in Nature, "It's Time To Write Your Lesson Plan: Choose Your Own Future - Fascism Series #8" in Liminalities, and "AITA for Killing All the Humans?" in Asimov's Science Fiction.
More information may be found at www.jennahanchey.com.
Ph.D., Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2017
M.A., Communication, University of Colorado Boulder, 2012
B.S., Physics/Mathematics Education, Taylor University, 2007
Decolonial Futurities
Speculative Fiction and Radical Imagination
Rhetoric
Critical/Cultural Studies
Critical Development Studies
RESEARCH
PEER-REVIEWED BOOKS
Jenna N. Hanchey, Decolonial Dreamwork: Africanfuturism and Imagination Beyond Development. The Ohio State University Press. In press.
Jenna N. Hanchey, The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO (Durham: Duke University Press, 2023). Winner of the 2024 NCA Organizational Communication Division Outstanding Monograph Award and Chapter 3, “Haunted Reflexivity,” of the 2024 International Association of Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry Ellis-Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research Award
PUBLIC-FACING ESSAYS
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Liquid Resistance: Learning from Water in Sofia Samatar’s The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain,” ASAP Review. September 30, 2025. Invited.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Realizing Better Futures Now: On Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair by Joseph M. Pierce,” Ancillary Review of Books. September 16, 2025.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Sitting with the Grief,” Los Angeles Review of Books. April 24, 2025.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Slipping Between Worlds: On Transmentation | Transience by Darkly Lem,” Ancillary Review of Books. March 17, 2025.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Afrofuturism is Now,” essay on display in the gallery exhibit Reclaiming Hope: Afrofuturist Visions. Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ. August 2024-January 2025. Invited.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Africanfuturism Beyond the Future,” Strange Horizons. August 26, 2024.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “What Water Teaches Us,” Los Angeles Review of Books. July 11, 2024.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Fear of the Feminine: On Tlotlo Tsamaase’s Womb City,” Los Angeles Review of Books. January 23, 2024.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Going Mad: On Yvette Lisa Ndlovu’s Drinking from Graveyard Wells,” Los Angeles Review of Books. November 22, 2023.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “On Prospect,” History of the Future. Center for Science and the Imagination, ASU. November 8, 2023.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Science Fiction Frames: Neptune Frost (2021),” Imaginary Papers. Center for Science and the Imagination, ASU. May 14, 2023.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Securing Neocolonialism: Reverse Extractavism in Tade Thompson’s The Wormwood Trilogy,” Strange Horizons. January 23, 2023.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Jenna Hanchey Reviews Undrowned by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (2020),” ECD NCA Blog. July 27, 2022.
CO-EDITED JOURNAL ISSUES
Jenna N. Hanchey and Godfried A. Asante, eds., “(Re)Theorizing Communication Studies from African Perspectives: Part II,” The Review of Communication 22, no. 1 (2022). Winner of the NCA Ethnography Division Best Special Issue Award and the NCA Philosophy of Communication Division Distinguished Themed Edited Journal Award.
Godfried A. Asante and Jenna N. Hanchey, eds., “(Re)Theorizing Communication Studies from African Perspectives: Part I,” The Review of Communication 21, no. 4 (2021). Winner of the NCA Ethnography Division Best Special Issue Award and the NCA Philosophy of Communication Division Distinguished Themed Edited Journal Award.
JOURNAL ARTICLES & FORUM ESSAYS
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Cosmic Care,” Women’s Studies in Communication 48, no. 4 (2025): 556-561. Invited. (Also listed as Artwork).
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Introduction: Review Forum on The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 111, no. 2 (2025).
Jenna N. Hanchey, “After the End of the World,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 111, no. 2 (2025).
Laurie Fuller, Jenna N. Hanchey, and E Ornelas, “Existence as Resistance, WisCon 46, Mary 26-29, 2023, Madison, Wisconsin, United States,” Utopian Studies 34, no. 3 (2023): 618-625. Invited.
Stephany Rojas Hidalgo and Jenna N. Hanchey, “Toward Asexual Utopias,” Utopian Studies. In press.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “It’s Time to Write Your Lesson Plan—Choose Your Own Future: Fascism Series #8,” Liminalities 19, no. 2 (2023): 1-6.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Catastrophe Colonialism: Global Disaster Films and the White Right to Migrate,” Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 16, no. 4 (2023): 300-316.
Jenna N. Hanchey and Peter R. Jensen, “Organizational Rhetoric as Subjectification,” Management Communication Quarterly 36, no. 2 (2022): 261-287.
Jenna N. Hanchey and Godfried A. Asante, “African Communication Studies: Applications and Interventions,” The Review of Communication 22, no. 1 (2022): 1-6.
Godfried A. Asante and Jenna N. Hanchey, “African Communication Studies: A Provocation and Invitation,” The Review of Communication 21, no. 4 (2021): 271-292. Winner of the NCA Critical and Cultural Studies Division Outstanding Article Award.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “The Dream Trainers,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 18, no. 3 (2021): 305-314. Forum on “Speculative Fiction, Criticality, and Futurity.” (Also listed as Fiction).
Godfried Asante and Jenna N. Hanchey, “Decolonizing Queer Modernities: The Case for Queer (Post)colonial Studies in Critical/Cultural Communication,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 18, no. 2 (2021): 212-220. Invited. Forum on “Queering Communication.”
Jenna N. Hanchey and Godfried Asante, “‘How to Save the World From Aliens, Yet Keep Their Infrastructure’: Repurposing the ‘Master’s House’ in The Wormwood Trilogy,” Feminist Africa 2, no. 2 (2021): 11-28. Lead Article.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “‘The Self is Embodied’: Reading Queer and Trans Africanfuturism in The Wormwood Trilogy,” Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 14, no. 4 (2021): 320-334.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Decolonizing Aid in Black Panther,” The Review of Communication 20, no. 3 (2020): 260-268.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Introduction: Beyond Race Scholarship as Groundbreaking/Irrelevant,” Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 9, no. 2 (2020): 122-125. Forum on “No Time for Intersectionality Like the Present: A Response to the 2019 National Communication Association Organizational Communication Division’s Top Paper Panel.”
#ToneUpOrgComm Collective, “#ToneUpOrgComm: A Manifestx,” Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 9, no. 2 (2020): 152-154. Forum on “No Time for Intersectionality Like the Present: A Response to the 2019 National Communication Association Organizational Communication Division’s Top Paper Panel.”
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Desire and the Politics of Africanfuturism,” Women’s Studies in Communication 43, no. 2 (2020): 119-124. Forum on “African Feminist and Queer Coalitions,” winner of the NCA Feminist and Gender Studies Division Outstanding Article Award.
Peter R. Jensen, Joëlle M. Cruz, Elizabeth K. Eger, Jenna N. Hanchey, Angela Gist-Mackey, Kristina-Ruiz Mesa, and Astrid Villamil, “Pushing Past Positionalities and Through “Failures” in Qualitative Organizational Communication: Collective Lessons on Identities in Ethnographic Praxis,” Management Communication Quarterly 34, no. 1 (2020): 121-151. Winner of the NCA Ethnography Division Best Article Award.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Reframing the Present: Mock Aid Videos and the Foreclosure of African Epistemologies,” Women & Language 42, no. 2 (2019): 317-346.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Doctors Without Burdens: The Neocolonial Ambivalence of White Masculinity In International Medical Aid,” Women’s Studies in Communication 42, no. 1 (2019): 39-59. Winner of the OFRGC Feminist Scholar of the Year Award.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Toward a Relational Politics of Representation,” The Review of Communication 18, no. 4 (2018): 265-283.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “All of us Phantasmic Saviors,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 15, no. 2 (2018): 144-160.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Agency Beyond Agents: Aid Campaigns in Sub-Saharan Africa and Collective Representations of Agency,” Communication, Culture & Critique 9, no. 1 (2016): 11-29. Lead Article.
Robert W. Carroll, Madeleine Redlick, and Jenna N. Hanchey, “Is Rupaul Enough? Difference, Identity, and Presence in the Communication Classroom,” Communication Education 65, no. 2 (2016): 226-229. Forum on “Diversity and Scholarship on Instructional Communication.”
Sarah Jane Blithe and Jenna N. Hanchey, “The Discursive Emergence of Gendered Physiological Discrimination in Sex Verification Testing,” Women’s Studies in Communication 38, no. 4 (2015): 486-506.
Jenna N. Hanchey and Brenda L. Berkelaar, “Context Matters: Examining Discourses of Career Success in Tanzania,” Management Communication Quarterly 29, no. 3 (2015): 411-439.
Kate Lockwood Harris and Jenna N. Hanchey, “(De)stabilizing Sexual Violence Discourse: Masculinization of Victimhood, Organizational Blame, and Labile Imperialism,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 11, no. 4 (2014): 322-341.
Makiko Nagashima, Ken Kiers, Alejandro Szynkman, David London, Jenna Hanchey, and Kevin Little, “CP Violation in Three-body Chargino Decays,” Physical Review D: Covering Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 80, no. 9 (2009): 095012-1-095012-10.
BOOK & ENCYCLOPEDIA CHAPTERS
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Critiquing Colonialism in African Communication Studies,” ICA Handbook of Communication in Africa: Theory, Research and Praxis, eds. Joëlle M. Cruz and Stacey L. Connaughton (Taylor & Francis, 2026), 32-43. Invited.
Jenna N. Hanchey and Kaylee Mulholland, “Witnessing (to) Ghosts: Relational Approaches to Reflexivity through Haunting,” Sage Research Methods Cases: Part I (2025): 1-21. Invited.
Samantha Gillespie-Hoffman, Amanda Brand, and Jenna N. Hanchey, “Toward a Feminist Practice of Deviant Mentorship,” Queer, Critical, and Women of Color Interventions in Feminist Mentorship Spaces, eds. Jessica Pauly, Leandra H. Hernández, and Stevie Munz (University of Illinois Press, 2025).
Liahnna Stanley and Jenna N. Hanchey, “Speculative Fiction as Rehearsal for Decolonization,” SAGE Research Methods Cases: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research (2024): 1-22. Invited.
Roberta Chevrette, Jenna N. Hanchey, Michael Lechuga, Aaron Hess, and Michael Middleton, “Rhetorical Field Methods/Rhetorical Ethnography,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication (2023): 1-37. Invited.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Africanfuturism as Decolonial Dreamwork and Developmental Rebellion,” in The Routledge Handbook to CoFuturisms, eds. Grace Dillon, Isiah Lavender III, Taryne and Jade Taylor (Routledge, 2023), 575-585.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Afrofuturist Lessons in Persistence,” in Badass Feminist Politics: Exploring the Radical Edges of Theory, Communication, and Activism, eds. Sarah Jane Blithe and Janell Bauer (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2022), 276-291. Invited.
Jenna N. Hanchey, Ana-Luisa Ortiz, and Samantha Gillespie, “‘Graduate School is a Human Experience of Struggling, Celebrating, and Striving Together’: Graduate Life as A Collective Endeavor,” in By Degrees: Resilience, Relationships, and Success in Communication Graduate Studies, eds. Betsy W. Bach, Dawn O. Braithwaite, and Shiv Ganesh (Cognella, 2021), 152-162. Invited.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Reworking Resistance: A Postcolonial Perspective on International NGOs,” in Transformative Practices and Research in Organizational Communication, eds. Philip Salem and Erik Timmerman (IGI Global, 2018), 274-291.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Constructing ‘American Exceptionalism’: Peace Corps Volunteer Discourses of Race, Gender, and Empowerment,” in Volunteering and Communication Volume II: Studies in International and Intercultural Contexts, eds. Michael W. Kramer, Laurie K. Lewis, and Loril M. Gossett (Peter Lang, 2015), 233-250.
Jenna N. Hanchey, “Exceptional Opportunities: Hierarchies of Race and Nation in the U.S. Peace Corps Recruitment Materials,” in The Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies, eds. Anshuman Prasad, Pushkala Prasad, Albert J. Mills, and Jean Helms-Mills (Routledge, 2015), 384-397. Invited.
CREATIVE ACTIVITY
MAGAZINE EDITOR
Poetry Editor, Orion’s Belt, January 2023-December 2025
COLLABORATIVE FICTION WORLDBUILDING PROJECTS
Nova Aera. Chandler Escalante, Libbie Farrell, Madeline Henderson, Allison Hoops, Karishma Kasad, Jay Yen, Lein de León Yang, and Jenna Hanchey. Syllble.
The Odin Chronicles. Roxana Arama, Gustavo Bondoni, Paul Celmer, Travis Burnham, Jenna Hanchey, Carol Scheina, Jonathan Sherwood, and Pete Wood. Stupefying Stories. Invited.
ORIGINAL FICTION PUBLICATIONS
Jenna Hanchey, “Even in Worlds,” Cast of Wonders. Accepted.
Jenna Hanchey, “Your Image in the World and the World in Your Image,” Gavagai. Accepted.
Jenna Hanchey, “Five Medicines You Found in the Garden of Unfinished Poems,” Strange Horizons. March 16, 2026.
Jenna Hanchey, “Accidental Curses,” Simultaneous Times. February 15, 2026.
Jenna Hanchey, “Among the Beginnings Scattered Across the Kitchen Floor,” If There’s Anyone Left Vol. 5, eds Jason P. Burnham, C.M. Fields, and Sonia Sulaiman (If There’s Anyone Left, 2025), 34-36.
Jenna Hanchey and Marco Dehnert, “Ten Reasons You Should Get Lasik Before the Apocalypse,” Small Wonders. December 2, 2024.
Jenna Hanchey, “And You And I,” The Sunday Morning Transport. December 1, 2024.
Jenna Hanchey, “A Locked Box, Bound with Chains, Buried Six Feet Deep,” If There’s Anyone Left Vol 4, eds Jason P. Burnham, C.M. Fields, and Wen Wen Yang (If There’s Anyone Left, 2024), 66-70.
Jenna Hanchey, “When You See a Dragon, You Run,” Simultaneous Times. August 15, 2024.
Jenna Hanchey, “The Almost-Activation of Ruby Valentine’s Catastrophe Machine,” Simultaneous Times. January 15, 2024.
Jenna Hanchey, “The Devil’s Hand,” Paradise ICON Anthology 2023, ed. Ransom Noble (Paradise ICON, 2023), 3-12.
Jenna Hanchey, “Chapter 8: October 2121 – Of Second Chances and the Risks They Bear,” Nova Aera: A Collaborative Novel. Syllble Books. August 21, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “Shades of Journeys, Past and to Come,” Stupefying Stories. July 13, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “Til Death Do Us Part,” Martian Magazine. June 16, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “Our World Between Their Lines,” Orion’s Belt and Utopia SF. March 17, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “Love Planted in the Night Sky,” Amazing Stories. March 13, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “Sing the Phoenix to Flame,” Little Blue Marble. February 24, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “Onyx & Snow,” Corvid Queen. February 20, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “We Found Ourselves Beyond the Vanishing Wave,” Daily Science Fiction. November 3, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Come Away from the Fire, My Love,” If There’s Anyone Left Vol 3, eds. Jason P Burnham and C.M. Fields. (If There’s Anyone Left, 2022), 97-102.
Jenna Hanchey, “Weathering, the Storms of Time,” The Dire Dark, ed. Eric Fomley (Shacklebound Books, 2022), 25-30.
Jenna Hanchey, “Every Day the Music Died,” Stupefying Stories. October 24, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Love’s Labors, Lost,” Stupefying Stories. October 15, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “The Weight of Expectation,” Martian Magazine. September 2, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Break, O Time,” Medusa Tales. August 13, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “What Everyone Assumes About Dragons,” Wyrms, ed. Eric Fomley (Shacklebound Books, 2022), 19.
Jenna Hanchey, “The Afterthought,” Alternative Holidays (eds. Alicia Hilton and Bob Brown (B Cubed Press, 2022), 207-208.
Jenna Hanchey, “Collapsing Worlds Hail the Broadest Futures,” Martian Magazine. June 20, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Answers Beyond Garden and Sky,” Tree and Stone. June 20, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Hello, This is Automatic Antigrief: What Problem Can I Solve For You Today?” Nature. April 20, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Odin Chronicles Episode 16: Dreams of Another World,” Page & Spine. April 16, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Up the River, Over Mountains, Across the Sea,” Wyngraf. April 14, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “From Soulless to Soulful,” Stupefying Stories. April 5, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “The Sounds of Space and Silence,” Drabbledark II, ed. Eric Fomley (Shacklebound Books, 2022), 69.
Jenna Hanchey, “The Ocean’s Choice,” Maelstroms: Tales of Dark Fantasy on the High Seas (Shacklebound Books, 2022), 23-27.
Jenna Hanchey, “Were We to Waver, My Love,” Martian Magazine. March 21, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Sing Back the Stars,” Page & Spine. March 18, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Odin Chronicles Episode 8: A Friend for the Machinist,” Page & Spine. March 18, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Old Friends, Across Galaxies and the Space Between,” Stupefying Stories, December 31, 2021.
Jenna Hanchey, “Like Any Other,” Apex Patreon, September 20, 2021.
Jenna Hanchey, “Far From Home,” Daily Science Fiction, August 20, 2021.
Jenna Hanchey, “The Dream Trainers,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, September 23, 2021. (Also listed as Journal Essay)
Jenna Hanchey, “Boughs of Holly,” Daily Science Fiction, December 24, 2020.
POETRY PUBLICATIONS
Jenna Hanchey, “Our Love is a Fiction Demanding to be Future,” Strange Horizons. In Press. (Also listed as Artwork)
Jenna Hanchey, “AITA for Killing All the Humans?” Asimov’s Science Fiction March/April (2026), 57.
Jenna Hanchey, “Of Plagues and Possibility,” Worlds of IF #179 2, no. 2 (2025): 170.
Jenna Hanchey, “Would the Sea Still Sing to Me,” New Myths 19, no. 71 (2025).
Jenna Hanchey, “After,” Worlds of Possibility. April 2025 Double Issue, Version 2. (Also listed as Artwork)
Jenna Hanchey, “so much energy,” Critical (In)coherencies, Vol. 2, I4C Collective, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, ASU, August 2024.
Jenna Hanchey, “Each Bite a Cleansing,” StarLine 48, no. 1 (2025): 20.
Jenna Hanchey, “Ars Poetica,” Haven Speculative. November 20, 2024.
Jenna Hanchey, “Time Cannot Contain Me,” StarLine 47, no. 3 (2024): 5.
THEATRICAL SCRIPT PUBLICATIONS
Pablo Ramírez and Jenna Hanchey, “Antigrief Hotline,” Electronic Brain, no. 2 (2026): 2-16.
ARTWORK PUBLICATIONS
Jenna Hanchey, “Our Love is a Fiction Demanding to be Future,” Strange Horizons. In Press. (Also listed as Poetry)
Jenna Hanchey, “Cosmic Care,” Women’s Studies in Communication 48, no. 4 (2025): 556-561. Multimedia collection featuring five artworks, including collage, watercolor, and mixed media pieces. (Also listed as Journal Essay).
Jenna Hanchey, “After,” Worlds of Possibility. April 2025 Double Issue, Version 2. (Also listed as Poetry).
Jenna Hanchey, “Wanna Build a Rocketship in the Backyard?” Critical (In)coherencies, Vol. 2. Watercolor. August 2024.
Jenna Hanchey, “Tree of Life,” Tree & Stone. Photography. December 19, 2022.
REPRINT CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Jenna Hanchey, “Come Away from the Fire, My Love,” The Cosmic Background. Accepted.
Jenna Hanchey, “After,” Worlds of Possibility – Poetry, edited by Julia Rios (Worlds of Possibility, 2025), 99-101.
Jenna Hanchey, “A Locked Box, Bound with Chains, Buried Six Feet Deep,” Simultaneous Times. April 15, 2025.
Jenna Hanchey, “Love Planted in the Night Sky,” Amazing Stories Best of 2023, ed. Lloyd Penney (Experimenter Publishing Company, 2024), 320-322.
Jenna Hanchey, “It’s Time to Write Your Lesson Plan—Choose Your Own Future: Fascism Series #8,” Radon Journal. May 15, 2024.
Jenna Hanchey, “Hello, This is Automatic Antigrief: What Problem Can I Solve for You Today?,” Simultaneous Times. September 25, 2023. Finalist for the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Audio Fiction.
Jenna Hanchey, “Hello This is Automatic Antigrief,” Radon Journal. September 15, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “Answers Beyond Garden and Sky,” Stupefying Stories. August 29, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “Our World Between Their Lines,” Critical (In)coherencies, Vol. 2, I4C Collective, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, ASU, August 2024.
Jenna Hanchey, “Far From Home,” Critical (In)coherencies, Vol. 1, I4C Collective, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, ASU, August 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “The Ocean’s Choice,” Stupefying Stories. October 8, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “Up the River, Over Mountains, Across the Sea,” in The Little Cozy Book: The Best of Flash Fiction from Wyngraf, ed. Nathaniel Webb (Young Needles Press, 2023), 35-39.
Jenna Hanchey, “Sing Back the Stars,” Stupefying Stories. July 31, 2023.
Jenna Hanchey, “A Friend for the Machinist,” in The Odin Chronicles, eds. Pete Wood and Jonathan Sherwood (Rampant Loon Press, 2022), 45-50.
Jenna Hanchey, “Dreams of Another World,” in The Odin Chronicles, eds. Pete Wood and Jonathan Sherwood (Rampant Loon Press, 2022), 90-95.
Jenna Hanchey, “Boughs of Holly,” in Holiday Leftovers, eds. Alicia Hilton and Bob Brown (B Cubed Press, 2022), 81-82.
Jenna Hanchey, “Dreams of Another World,” Stupefying Stories. August 12, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “A Friend for the Machinist,” Stupefying Stories. July 25, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Far From Home,” Bullet Points. June 1, 2022.
Jenna Hanchey, “Far From Home,” Shacklebound Books Newsletter. May 1, 2022.
PODCAST HOST & AUDIO ROLES
Narrator, Strange Horizons, 2024-present
Narrator, Simultaneous Times, 2024-2026
Co-host, Just Keep Writing, 2025-2026
Creator and co-host, Griots & Galaxies: A Podcast Speculating African Futures. Produced by the Center for Science and the Imagination and supported by the Institute for Humanities Research, The Transformation Project, and the Waterhouse Family Institute. 2023-2026
Narrator, Orion’s Belt Magazine, 2023-2024
FICTION NARRATIONS
“Five Medicines You Found in the Garden of Unfinished Poems” by Jenna Hanchey, Strange Horizons. In process.
“Even in Worlds” by Jenna Hanchey, Cast of Wonders. In process.
“Resurrections” by Emet North, Strange Horizons. In production.
“Because I Held His Name Like a Key” by Aimee Ogden, Strange Horizons. In production.
“Everything We Lost in the Apocalypse” by Mar Vincent, Strange Horizons. In production.
“Ephemera,” Simultaneous Times. In production.
“Wired Hearts” by Eric Fomley, Simultaneous Times. April 15, 2026.
“Water Memory” by Tim Fahlstedt, Simultaneous Times. March 15, 2026.
“I Wish You Died Laughing” by Lio Abendan, Strange Horizons. In production. March 9, 2026.
“Accidental Curses” by Jenna Hanchey, Simultaneous Times. February 15, 2026.
“The Aquarium for Lost Souls” by Natasha King, Strange Horizons. February 2, 2026.
“Instructions for Rewilding the Wasteland” by Emma Burnett, Simultaneous Times.
“Just Let Me Help” by Tara Campbell, Simultaneous Times, August 15, 2025. Finalist for the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Audio Fiction. https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spacecowboybooks/episodes/2025-08-15T05_17_36-07_00
“A City on its Tentacles” by R. B. Lemberg, Strange Horizons, June 2, 2025.
“Beautiful Game” by Toshiya Kamei, Simultaneous Times, July 15, 2025.
“Plucking Flowers from My Garden of Poison” by Renan Bernardo, Simultaneous Times, June 15, 2025. Longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Audio Fiction.
“Negation” by K. C. Grifant, Simultaneous Times. May 15, 2025.
”A Locked Box, Bound With Chains, Buried Six Feet Deep” by Jenna Hanchey. Simultaneous Times. April 15, 2025.
“What Happens When a Planet Falls from the Sky” by Danny Cherry, Jr., Simultaneous Times. March 15, 2025.
“Then Came the Ghost of My Dead Mother, Antikleia” by Nadia Radovich, Simultaneous Times. March 15, 2025.
“Press Release from a Utopia on the Way Down” by Marisca Pischette. Simultaneous Times. February 15, 2025.
“Proceed to the Route” by Elad Haber, Simultaneous Times. January 15, 2025.
“Coming Through in Waves” by Samantha Murray, Strange Horizons. January 6, 2025.
“A Cure for Solastalgia” by E.M. Linden, Strange Horizons. December 2, 2024.
“Tree Love” by Adele Gardner, Simultaneous Times. November 15, 2024.
“Love Planted in the Night Sky” by Jenna Hanchey, Amazing Stories Best of 2023, ed. Lloyd Penney (Experimenter Publishing Company, 2024).
“Tonight We’re Wearing Waste Bags” by Elena Sichrovsky, Simultaneous Times. October 17, 2024.
“The Adventure of the Cardboard Box” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, However Improbable. September 9, 2024.
“When You See a Dragon, You Run” by Jenna Hanchey, Simultaneous Times. August 15, 2024.
“You Must Buy Your Purchase” by Andy Dibble, Simultaneous Times. June 15, 2024.
“Halfway House” by Tonya R. Moore, Simultaneous Times. April 15, 2024.
“The Almost-Activation of Ruby Valentine’s Catastrophe Machine” by Jenna Hanchey, Simultaneous Times. January 15, 2024.
“Prometheus, at the End,” by Lia Swope Mitchell, Orion’s Belt.
“Driftwood” by E.M. Linden, Orion’s Belt. June 4, 2023.
“The Fire Will Come in Waves” by R.L. Summerling, Orion’s Belt. June 4, 2023.
“Love Planted in the Night Sky” by Jenna Hanchey, Amazing Stories. March, 13, 2023.
“The Hound of the Baskervilles” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, However Improbable. August 11, 2022.
Southern Ice: Bloodlines, Vol. 2 by Emily S. Hurricane, Audible, September 22, 2021.
“Katabasis” by Catherine George, The Overcast, September 17, 2021,
The Beginning of the End: Bloodlines, Vol. 1 by Emily S. Hurricane, Audible, March 18, 2021.
PODCAST HOSTING
“Episode 193 – Goodbyes Aren’t Forever,” Just Keep Writing, April 17, 2026.
“Episode 190 – Resistance is Playful,” Just Keep Writing, March 6, 2026.
“Episode 189 – On Ramps: What Drove Our Desire to Write,” Just Keep Writing, February 20, 2026.
“Episode 188 – Canon Events: Creative Research with Jenna,” Just Keep Writing, February 6, 2026.
“Episode 187 – New Year, Same Pen: The Crew Talks Writing Aspirations for 2026,” Just Keep Writing, January 23, 2026.
“Episode 186 – No Prescriptions: Collaboration on a Novella Craft Book,” Just Keep Writing, December 25, 2025.
“Episode 183 – Community Chat with Tanvir Ahmed,” Just Keep Writing, November 14, 2025.
“Episode 181 – What Makes a Novella (Part 2),” Just Keep Writing, October 17, 2025.
“Episode 180 – What Makes a Novella (Part 1),” Just Keep Writing, October 3, 2025.
“Episode 179 – Secrets of Character (Part 5),” Just Keep Writing, September 19, 2025.
“Episode 177 – WorldCon Seattle 2025,” Just Keep Writing, August 22, 2025.
“Episode 176 - Secrets of Character (Part 4),” Just Keep Writing, August 8, 2025.
“Episode 175 - Spotlight on Jenna Hanchey,” Just Keep Writing, July 25, 2025.
“Episode 171 - Sinners: Part 2, Just Keep Writing, May 30, 2025.
“Episode 170 - Sinners: Part 1,” Just Keep Writing, May 16, 2025.
“Episode 168 - The Practice, The Horizon, and the Chain,” Just Keep Writing, April 18, 2025.
“Episode 167 - Writing through Executive Dysfunction,” Just Keep Writing, April 4, 2025.
“Mohale Mashigo,” Griots & Galaxies, November 3, 2023.
“Ayodele Olofintuade,” Griots & Galaxies, October 27, 2023.
“Shingai Njeri Kagunda,” Griots & Galaxies, October 20, 2023.
“Tlotlo Tsamaase,” Griots & Galaxies, October 13, 2023.
“Suyi Davies Okungobwa,” Griots & Galaxies, October 10, 2023.
“Wole Talabi,” Griots & Galaxies, October 3, 2023.
“Introducing Griots & Galaxies,” Griots & Galaxies, October 2, 2023.
PUBLIC READINGS
“Story Hour (feat. James R. Gapinski and Jenna Hanchey),” Story Hour, December 3, 2025.
“Reading: Jenna Hanchey,” World Science Fiction Convention, August 17, 2025.
Flash Science Fiction Night,” Space Cowboy Books, April 29, 2025.
“Story Hour (feat. Jenna Hanchey and Leslie What),” Story Hour, February 19, 2025.
“Reading: Jenna Hanchey,” World Fantasy Convention, October 18, 2024.
“Reading: Jenna Hanchey,” Flights of Foundry Convention, September 29, 2024.
“Flash Science Fiction Night,” Space Cowboy Books, September 9, 2024.
“Story Hour (feat. Jenna Hanchey and K.G. Anderson),” Story Hour, May 15, 2024.
“Shacklebound Books Flash Science Fiction Night,” Space Cowboy Books, June 27, 2023.
“If There’s Anyone Left Flash Science Fiction Night,” Space Cowboy Books, October 14, 2022.
“Story Hour (feat. Jenna Hanchey and Valerie Valdes),” Story Hour, September 14, 2022.
Courses
2026 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 323 | Comm Approach Popular Culture |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 263 | Cultures and Global Engagement |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 799 | Dissertation |
| COM 792 | Research |
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 799 | Dissertation |
| COM 691 | Seminar |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 799 | Dissertation |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 323 | Comm Approach Popular Culture |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 799 | Dissertation |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 607 | Contemporary Rhetorical Method |
| COM 792 | Research |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 323 | Comm Approach Popular Culture |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| COM 690 | Reading and Conference |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 323 | Comm Approach Popular Culture |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 692 | Research |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 691 | Seminar |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 692 | Research |
| COM 692 | Research |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 323 | Comm Approach Popular Culture |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| COM 607 | Contemporary Rhetorical Method |
| COM 690 | Reading and Conference |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 604 | Theory Construction in Comm |
| COM 690 | Reading and Conference |
| COM 690 | Reading and Conference |
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 263 | Elements Intercultural Comm |
| COM 263 | Elements Intercultural Comm |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| COM 692 | Research |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| COM 792 | Research |
| COM 607 | Contemporary Rhetorical Method |
“ASU Library Celebrates Black Speculative Fiction with New Exhibit and Feature Collection,” ASU Library News, October 9, 2023. https://lib.asu.edu/news/asu-library-celebrates-black-speculative-fiction-new-exhibit-and-featured-collection
“Special Issues Highlight Communication Studies from African Perspectives.” Communication Matters: The NCA Podcast, April 14, 2022. https://natcompodcast.podbean.com/e/special-issues-highlight-communication-studies-from-african-perspectives/
“Special Issues Highlight Communication Studies from African Perspectives.” Communication Currents, March 1, 20222. https://www.natcom.org/communication-currents/special-issues-highlight-communication-studies-african-perspectives
“A Dialogue on Gender and Sexuality in African Futurism.” Invited speaker for Feminist Africa’s special issue launch, Kwame Nkrumah Pan-African Intellectual & Cultural Festival. September 23, 2021. https://kwamenkrumahfestival.com/session-recording/dialogue-on-gender-and-sexuality-in-african-futurism
“Where Can we Locate Intercultural Communication in Our Lives?” Invited interviewee for the Reynolds Sandbox, Reynolds School of Journalism, UNR. October 2, 2020. https://medium.com/the-reynolds-media-lab/where-can-we-locate-intercultural-communication-in-our-lives-89ff941d9f23
“Decolonization and Dystopian Literature.” Invited speaker for Severance Radio: A Nevada Reads Book Club, Nevada Humanities, Reno, NV. August 9, 2020. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5gbKt3RVV80iDHGVdFg2Uw
“What Should be the Trajectories of Feminist Work in the Communication Discipline at this Time?” Invited panelist for Ask the Oracle, ORWAC. June 11, 2020. https://youtu.be/hYJmE9VVxhg
“Future Visions of Confronting Racism.” Invited panelist for the Thought on Tap Series, Core Humanities Program, UNR, NV. October 10, 2019. https://www.kaltura.com/index.php/extwidget/preview/partner_id/1372381/uiconf_id/25944532/entry_id/0_kmarepfu/embed/dynamic?