Research Interests: Listening, Race, Dialogue, Podcasting, Sound Studies
Biography: Anjuli Joshi Brekke is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. She recently earned her Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Washington. Her scholarship focuses on the potential and politics of listening and interweaves research from a number of traditions including rhetorical studies, cultural studies, and sound studies. Her work explores the power and limitations of sharing personal narratives, both online and offline, to facilitate listening across difference. For her dissertation, she proposed and led an oral history and digital storytelling project to record and share stories of racial discrimination and resistance from the larger Seattle area. She has published multiple works on podcasting, radical listening and race and teaches courses in community-based podcasting and digital storytelling.
Classes Taught:
Podcasting, Intercultural Communication; Digital Storytelling; Rhetoric and Popular Culture; Introduction to Media and Society; Public Speaking; Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Media
Articles Written or Co-Authored:
Brekke, A. (March 2020). The sound of yellow rain: Resisting podcasting’s sonic whiteness. In J. A. Hendricks (Ed.), Radio’s Second Century: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, pp. 173-189.
Sturgis, M., Evans, B., Brekke, A., Lee, E., and Delgado, A. (November 2020). Who is listening to what we have to say?: Talking about institutional diversity. In H. Oliha-Donaldson (Ed), BIPOC Students Using Polyvocal Narratives, Co-Witnessing, and Spectral Engagement: “Seen” But Not Heard. New York: Routledge.
Brekke, A. (Forthcoming). “TEACH US THE TRUTH”: Teaching historical understanding in an era of post-truth politics. In A. Atay and D. H. Kahl Jr. (Eds.), Pedagogies of Post Truth. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Brekke, A. (Forthcoming). Theorizing radical listening. Listening: Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture.
Brekke, A. (Forthcoming). Negotiating home through hip hop: Constructing and deconstructing home among second-generation musicians in Scandinavia. In L. Chao and C. Wang (Eds.), Communicating across differences: An anthology of intercultural communicative practices in the 21st Century. Cognella.
Brekke, A., Joseph, R., Naheed, A. (Forthcoming). “I address race because race addresses me”: Women of color show their receipts through digital storytelling. Review of Communication.