public workshops, videos, podcasts, and courses on communication, imagination, and power
PUBLIC WORKSHOPS, LECTURES, & MODERATION
UPCOMING
Resistance in Speculative Fiction and Beyond
Tanvir Ahmed & Jenna N. Hanchey
Worldbuilding Initiative, ASU
Wednesday Nov. 19, 2025, 5-6pm MST
Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing & ASU Live
Information & Registration here: https://asuevents.asu.edu/event/resistance-speculative-fiction-and-beyond
PAST
Moderator, “Reclaiming Hope,” Gallery @ Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ, November 14, 2024
“Big Feelings Writing Lab,” thems. queer poetry collective, Afternoons Studio, Phoenix, AZ, November 13, 2024.
Panelist, “Griots & Galaxies Podcast Release,” Palabras Bilingual Bookstore, Phoenix, AZ, October 21, 2023.
Panelist, “Time in Two Dimensions and the Future of Humanity,” ASU, Tempe, AZ, October 20, 2023.
Workshop Facilitator, “Fiction in a Flash,” Changing Hands Bookstore, Phoenix, AZ, August 28, 2023.
Workshop Facilitator, “Speculating Social Justice,” Changing Hands Bookstore, Phoenix, AZ, February 27, 2023.
VIDEOS & PODCASTS
Heckin’ Good Boys: Pets in SFF
Panel at the 2023 Flights of Foundry Convention
Special Issues Highlight Communication Studies from African Perspectives
This episode addresses two new special issues of NCA’s Review of Communication that focus on the Communication discipline’s lack of attention to scholarship by African scholars, from African perspectives, and about Africa. Special issue editors and Communication professors Godfried A. Asante and Jenna N. Hanchey join the podcast.
Where Can We Locate Intercultural Communication in Our Lives?
Reynolds Sandbox reporter Kennedy Vincent sits down with Dr. Jenna Hanchey over Zoom to discuss Intercultural Communication.
Future Visions of Confronting Racism
The second episode of the second season of Thought on Tap addressed “Confronting Racism” at Laughing Planet. The discussion was facilitated by Stephen Pasqualina and featured the following guests: Ayanna Releford, Gariela Ortiz Flores, Jenna Hanchey and José Miguel Pulido León.
Climate Fiction as Decolonial Narrative
Panel at the 2023 Flights of Foundry Convention
Gender & Sexuality in Africanfuturism
In this panel highlighting the release of Feminist Africa‘s special issue on Africanfuturism at the 3rd Annual Kwame Nkrumah Festival, Godfried Asante & I share about our co-authored essay on Tade Thompson’s Wormwood Trilogy
Decolonization and Dystopian Literature
In this episode of Severance Radio: A Nevada Reads Book Club, Jenna Hanchey and Erica Vital-Lazare – two scholars who study language – talk about the new voices needed to imagine new worlds.
Ask the Oracle
For this issue of Ask the Oracle, ORWAC graduate student representatives Kristen D. Herring and Sarah Dweik asked Doctors Bernadette M. Calafell, Shinsuke Eguchi, Karma Chávez, Godfried Asante, and Jenna N. Hanchey “What should be the trajectories of feminist work in the communication discipline at this time?”
COURSES
COM 692: Writing Speculative Fiction for Social Justice (ASU)
COM 691: Decolonial Rhetorics (ASU)
COM 691: Toward Liberatory Futures (ASU)
COM 607: Rhetorical Methods (ASU)
COM 323: Communication Approaches to Popular Culture (ASU)
COM 263: Elements of Intercultural
Communication (ASU)
COM 760: Communication Theory (UNR)
COM 422: Difference and Communication (UNR)
COM 412: Intercultural Communication (UNR)
COM 407: Gender and Communication (UNR)
COM 317: Organizational Communication (UNR)
COM 275: Racism, Colonialism, and Communication (UNR)
AWARDS
Outstanding Early Career Faculty Mentor, Faculty Women’s Association, ASU, 2024
Outstanding Assistant Instructor 2014-2015, Department of Communication Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 2015
Outstanding Teaching Assistant 2012-2013, Department of Communication Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 2013
Jenna Hanchey 