Dr. Jessica M. F. Hughes is an associate professor of digital communication and cultural studies at Millersville University in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Jess researches at the intersection of critical discourse and disability studies. Her scholarship focuses on discourse around disability, neurodiversity, & social justice. Her most recent work analyzes digital activism in disability rights and justice movements. She is also working on open educational resources on inclusive pedagogy and communication studies. She has recently co-edited the anthology Disability in Dialogue for John Benjamins’ Dialogue Series (with Mariaelena Bartesaghi).
Jess was born in Florida, grew up outside Pittsburgh, and studied at the University of Colorado Boulder; Lancaster University; Boston University; and the Technische Universitaet Dresden.
Selected publications:
Hughes, J. M. F. (2023). Death and traumatic affect on Twitter. In J. M. F. Hughes & M. Bartesaghi (Eds.), Disability in dialogue. John Benjamins.
Pfannenstiel, A. N., Baldys, E., Hughes, J. M. F., Licata, A. M., & Rice, K. (Eds). (2023). Inclusive teaching practices. OER Commons.
Hughes, J. M. F. (2022). Anti-racism [lesson module]. OER Commons.
Hughes, J. M. F. (2018). Progressing positive discourse analysis and/in critical discourse studies: Reconstructing resistance through progressive discourse analysis. Review of Communication, 18(3), 193-211. DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2018.1479880
Hughes, J. M. F. & Tracy, K. (2015). Indexicality. In K. Tracy, C. Ilie, & T. Sandel (Eds.), International encyclopedia of language and social interaction. Boston: John Wiley & Sons. DOI: 10.1002/9781118611463/wbielsi078
Work for CID:
Jessica Hughesis the co-author of a guest post on Disability as Intercultural Dialogue.
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