Morgan DiCesare is a scholar of rhetorical history and a Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in communication studies. Her work underscores the importance of social relationships in retelling queer and trans histories. Through readings of oral histories, collected first-hand documents, and memoirs, her research takes up daily life in the 1970s and present to address queer and trans modes of living and worldmaking beyond those presented by institutional sources such as medical and newspaper records. She has published her work in The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture, Women’s Studies in Communication, and Peitho.
Research/Publications Highlights
DiCesare, Morgan. 2024. “Iowa.” Quarterly Journal of Speech.
DiCesare, Morgan, and E Cram. 2023. “Transfeminist Possibilities and Remembering the 1970s.” Women’s Studies in Communication 46 (2): 244–51.
DiCesare, Morgan and Charles E. Morris III. 2022. “Queer/ing Archives.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies & Communication.
Departments
Communication Studies
Education
- PhD, Communication Studies, University of Iowa
- M.A., Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University
- B.A., Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies and Political Science, Macalester College