teaching: mentoring
graduate mentoring
Since joining the faculty at the University of Washington in September 2003, I have been working with a number of graduate students in the Department of Communication and in other departments. My primary role is in advising and mentoring graduate colleagues’ own research projects.
List of current and past UW advisees and their research projects
Publications with graduate colleagues
I am also always keen to collaborate with people who share my research and intellectual interests – or vice-versa. This work usually arises out of RA-ships, independent projects, directed projects or even directed readings. Where appropriate, I am also willing to work collaboratively with graduate colleagues on papers arising from my graduate seminars.
Thurlow, C. and Marwick, A. (2005). Apprehension versus awareness: Toward more critical understandings of young people’s communication experiences. In Williams, A. & Thurlow, C. (eds), Talking adolescence: Perspectives on communication in the teenage years (pp. 53-72). New York: Peter Lang.
McKay, S., Thurlow, C. and Toomey Zimmerman, H. (2005). Wired whizzes or techno slaves? Teens and their emergent communication technologies. In Williams, A. & Thurlow, C. (eds), Talking adolescence: Perspectives on communication in the teenage years (pp. 185-203). New York: Peter Lang.
Aiello, G. & Thurlow, C. (2006). Symbolic capitals: Visual discourse and intercutural exchange in the European Capital of Culture scheme. Language and Intercultural Communication, 6(2).
Anspach, W.; Coe, K. and Thurlow, C. (2007). ‘The other closet?’: Atheists, homosexuals and the lateral appropriation of discursive capital. Critical Discourse Studies, 4(1), 95-119.
Thurlow, C. and Aiello, G. (2007 in press). National pride, global capital: A social semiotic analysis of corporate branding in the airline industry. Visual Communication, 6(3).
Also in preparation:
De Vadder, K . and Thurlow, C. (in prep). Selling the global village: The commodification and exploitation of languages and intercultural communication in ‘alternative’ tourism.
Thurlow, C. & Gendelman, I. (in prep). Tourist conceits, class deceits: The visual spatialization of luxury and distinction in mediatized tourism discourse.
Gorgura, H. & Thurlow, C. (in prep). Queering the gaze: Queering the gaze: The discursive (re)construction of gender and sex/uality in ‘altporn’.
Thurlow, C. & Chancellor, C. (in prep). Margins within margins: The politics of identity and representation in GBLT-targeted youth magazines.
undergraduate mentoring
As a believer in research-led teaching, I encourage undergraduate students to participate in my research in any way which is useful and meaningful to them. I am also always happy to mentor Independent Research projects, especially if they orient to one or other area of my own research agenda. Communication Majors can also work with me for credit on Directed Research projects which means they collaborate with me on an existing or new area of my own research.
Directed research
Several of my recent or ongoing projects are based on data collected and collated with the help of undergraduate students:
- frequent-flyer programmes (Karin Kubischta)
- space in tourism advertising (Sarah Keeler)
- European capitals of culture (Karishma Pillay)
- media discourse on language/new technology (Mary Beth Kaiser)
- elitist and luxury discourse (Whit Hood-Lewis).
Independent research
In different ways I have also advised undegraduate students on their own research projects, such as these:
- Kris Mroczek (Communication Honors Thesis) - a critical discourse analysis of social class in luxury hotel websites
- Patrick Dent (CHID Honors Thesis) - an analysis of identity construction and commodification in gay online dating services
- Joe Sanders - a ethnographic analysis of gay fraternity discourse
- Pavel Gostev, Michael and Shade Solon (COM 498) - issues of identity, relationship and community in social networking sites
Students undertaking senior-level research projects are always invited to consider submitting their work for presentation at the UW's annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.