I characterize myself as a critical cultural communication scholar whose research interests focus on intersectional queer politics of race; gender, sexuality, and the body; desire, romance, and relationality; representation, visibility, popular culture; and transnationalism, diaspora, and migration. More specifically, I deploy queer of color critique to examine the interlocking systems of power and domination rooted in socially constructed categories of differences, such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, nation, coloniality, language, and the body. I privilege an intersectional queer analytic that centralizes historically saturated and cultural nuances of knowledge(s) emerged from lived experiences of minoritized sexual and gender people of color. It interrogates the complexities and contradictions of power, social institutions, interactions, and processes. My mobilization of queer of color critique elaborates the issues and concerns of globalization, transnationalism, postcolonialism, migration, or diaspora grounded in social activism and advocacy. 

Guided by queer of color critique as described above, I engage in a fusion of critical cultural performative methodologies to interrogate intersections among culture and communication pertaining to socially constructed categories of differences. My primary methodological choices grounded in the politics of empowering historically marginalized people and groups are critical cultural performative approaches to autoethnography, interview narratives, and rhetorical theory and criticism. From the multi-methodological approach, I address the following questions:  

1. What culture-specific and text-specific nuances of “intersectional” knowledge are embedded in the material realities of queer people of color?  
2. How do queer people of color perform sexual desire, romance, and relationality? 
3. How do technologies alter, shape, or reinforce queer performances of sex?  
4. How are queer people of color represented and underrepresented in popular culture?  
5. What are the salient characteristics of contemporary trans-Asian/American connections?  
6. What signifiers represent contemporary trans-Asian (dis)connections to Blackness in relational, cultural, and mediated contexts?  

To freely read any of these publications, please go to https://unm.academia.edu/ShinsukeEguchi 
 

PUBLICATIONS (Student co-authors are marked*): 

 
Monograph:  

Eguchi, S. (2022). Asians loving Asians: Sticky rice homoeroticism and queer politics. Peter Lang. (Critical Intercultural Communication Studies series).   

Edited Books: 

Eguchi, S., Calafell, B. M., & Abdi, S. (Eds.). (2020). De-Whitening intersectionality: Race, intercultural communication, and politics.Lexington Books. 

Eguchi, S. & Calafell, B. M. (Eds.). (2020). Queer intercultural communication: The intersectional politics of            belonging in and across differences. Rowman & Littlefield.  

Awarded the 2020 Book of the Year Award in GLBTQ Communication Studies Division by National Communication Association (NCA). 

- Reviewed by Pérez, K. (2020). Reviewed Work: Queer Intercultural Communication: The Intersectional Politics of Belonging in and Across Differences by Shinsuke Eguchi, Bernadette Calafell. QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking, 7 (3), 230-232.  

Peer-Reviewed Articles in Refereed Journals: 

Eguchi, S., & Calafell, B. M. (2023). Queer relationalities, impossible: The Politics of homonationalism and failure in LOGO’s Fire Island. Journal of Homosexuality, 70 (1), 149-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2022.2103873

Oh, D. C., & Eguchi, S. (2022). Racial privilege as a function of White supremacy and contextual advantages for Asian Americans. Communication, Culture, & Critique, 15(4), 471-478. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac026

Eguchi, S., & Kimura, K.* (2021). Racialized im/possibilities: Intersectional queer-of-color critique on Japaneseness in Netflix’s Queer Eye: We’re in Japan!Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 14 (3), 221-239. 　https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1829675 

Jones, S.*, & Eguchi, S. (2021). Queerness, sounded: Autoethnographic aurality. Review  of Communication, 21(1), 82-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2021.1892172  

Spieldenner, A., & Eguchi, S. (2020). A call to arms: Two queer men of color’s autoethnography of coalition politics. Cultural Studies↔Critical Methodologies, 20 (2), 134-143. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708619884962 

Eguchi, S. (2020). The politics of queerphobias: In the communication discipline. QED:A  Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 7(1), 60-67.  

Eguchi, S. (2020). Sticky rice politics: Impossible possibilities of queerness in and across Yellow Fever and Front Cover. Women’s Studies in Communication, 43(1), 67-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2019.1696435 

- Awarded the 2020 Outstanding Article in Asian/Pacific American Communication Studies Division & Caucus by National Communication Association (NCA).  

Invited Articles in Refereed Journals: 

Eguchi, S. (2021). On the horizon: Desiring global queer and trans* studies in international and intercultural communication. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 14 (4), 275-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2021.1967684 

Eguchi, S. (2021). What is “Queer Asia?”: A struggling pathway to globalizing queer studies in communication. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 18 (2), 196-203.  

https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2021.1907848  

McIntosh, D. M. D., & Eguchi, S. (2020). The troubled past, present disjunctures, and possible futures: Intercultural performance communication. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 49 (5), 395-409. https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2020.1811996 

Eguchi, S. (2020). A transnational queer of color vision: Toward the “future” of autoethnography. Journal of Autoethnography, 1(3), 309-314.  

https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2020.1.3.309 

Eguchi, S. (2020). Japan’s masculinist politics: An intersectional queer critique of actor Narimiya Hiroki’s retirement from the entertainment industry. Women & Language, 43(2), 317-324. https://doi.org/10.34036/WL.2020.027  

• A Conference Proceeding of Keynote Speech from the 2019’s Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG) in Cincinnati, OH.  

Chevrette, R., & Eguchi, S. (2020). Introduction: “We don’t see LGBTQ differences”: Cisheteronormativity and concealing phobias and irrational fears behind rhetorics of acceptance. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 7(1), 55-60.  

Book Chapters: 

Miller, A.*, & Eguchi, S. (2022). Fuck (gay) racism: Queer Asian American rhetorics of Abe Kim’s TikTok. In J. Rhode & J. Alexander (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of queer rhetoric (pp.250-257). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003144809-34  

Eguchi, S. (2021). Queer fantasy: A memory of Michael Sam’s big gay kiss. In A. Atay, Y.W. Chen, & A. Gonzalez (Eds.), Intercultural memories: Contesting places, spaces, and Stories (pp.115-133). Peter Lang.

Eguchi, S. (2021). Gaysian fabulosity: Quare(ing) the normal and ordinary. In M. Niles Goins, J.F. McAllister, & B. K. Alexander (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of gender and communication (pp. 45-58). Routledge.  

 Eguchi, S. (2020). Queer(ing) spaces: Sexualities as critical intersections among health and intercultural communication. In A. Spieldenner & S. Toyosaki (Eds.), Intercultural health communication (pp.39-56). Peter Lang.  

Calafell, B. M., & Eguchi, S. (2020). Are we queer yet?: Queerness on the horizon in academia. In A. Johnson & B. LeMaster (Eds.), Gender futurity, intersectional autoethnography: Embodied theorizing from the margins (pp. 69-84). Routledge.  

Eguchi, S. (2020). Queer loneliness, queer hopefulness: Toward restaging the intersectionality of gay + Asian/American from the Southwest. In J. G. Smith & C-S. Han (Eds.), Home and community for queer men of color: The intersection of race and sexuality (pp.107-122). Rowman & Littlefield.

Awards for Publication 

The 2020 Book of the Year Award, National Communication Association (NCA), GLBTQ   
Communication Studies Division, November, 2020.   
 
The 2020 Outstanding Article Award, National Communication Association (NCA), Asian/Pacific American Communication Studies Division & Caucus, November, 2020.   
  
The 2017 Outstanding Article of the Year, National Communication Association (NCA), International and Intercultural Communication Division, November 2017.   
  
The 2016 Monograph of the Year Award, National Communication Association (NCA), GLBTQ Communication Studies Division, November 2016.    
 

Awards for Top-Ranked Paper 

Top Paper, National Communication Association (NCA), Asian/Pacific American Communication Studies Division, November, 2021.  

Top Paper, National Communication Association (NCA), GLBTQ Communication Studies Division, November, 2021.   

Top Paper Panel, Western States Communication Association (WSCA), Performance Studies Interest Group, February 2019.  
  
Top Paper, Western States Communication Association (WSCA), Performance Studies Interest Group, February 2018.   
  

Recognition Awards 

Randy Majors Memorial Award, National Communication Association (NCA), The Caucus on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns, Baltimore, MD, November, 2019. 

• recognizing individuals who have made outstanding contributions to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender scholarship in communication studies. Each year the Caucus presents the award to one individual at the National Communication Association annual convention.