Notable Achievements

Associate Professor of Communication Studies Lamiyah Bahrainwala and Assistant Professor of Communication Studies Jaishikha Nautiyal received the Monograph of the Year Award for their co-authored article “Queer desi kinships: Reaching across partition.” The article appears in the Tier-1 journal QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, and articulates non-Western, and specifically South-Asian, queer praxes. The award is from the National Communication Association’s GLBTQ Division. The article can be read here.

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Jaishikha Nautiyal

Assistant Professor of Communication Studies

Expertise

Critical sensory rhetorics, everyday aesthetics, queer theory, posthuman thought

Jaishikha Nautiyal is an assistant professor in the Communication Studies department at Southwestern University. Dr. Nautiyal (or Dr. j) received her doctoral degree in Rhetoric and Language Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in Spring 2018. She received her MA degree in Speech Communication (Rhetoric) from North Dakota State University in Spring 2013. She also has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (Marketing–Consumer Behavior) from Alliance University, Bengaluru, India (2009). Her undergraduate work is in Chemistry (Hons.) from Hindu College, University of Delhi, India (2006).

Music weaves into Dr. j’s pedagogy and writing one way or another, haptics over optics being the ‘tracheal mantra’ for the aforementioned. For the limitlessly curious, breathable, meaningful, and un-hurried in-depth conversations about rhetoric and everyday civic life are the best access points to connect with Dr. j. Riffing, by other means!

 

Courses Taught

Rhetoric of Breathing (Fall 2024)

Rhetorical Theory (Spring 2025)

Understanding Power in Culture (Spring 2025)

 

  • Biography

    Jaishikha Nautiyal is an assistant professor in the Communication Studies department at Southwestern University. Dr. Nautiyal (or Dr. j) received her doctoral degree in Rhetoric and Language Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in Spring 2018. She received her MA degree in Speech Communication (Rhetoric) from North Dakota State University in Spring 2013. She also has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (Marketing–Consumer Behavior) from Alliance University, Bengaluru, India (2009). Her undergraduate work is in Chemistry (Hons.) from Hindu College, University of Delhi, India (2006).

    Music weaves into Dr. j’s pedagogy and writing one way or another, haptics over optics being the ‘tracheal mantra’ for the aforementioned. For the limitlessly curious, breathable, meaningful, and un-hurried in-depth conversations about rhetoric and everyday civic life are the best access points to connect with Dr. j. Riffing, by other means!

     

    Courses Taught

    Rhetoric of Breathing (Fall 2024)

    Rhetorical Theory (Spring 2025)

    Understanding Power in Culture (Spring 2025)

     

  • Publications

    Nautiyal, J. (forthcoming, 2024). “Anaerobic Rhetoric.” Quarterly Journal of Speech.

    Nautiyal, J. (forthcoming, 2024). “Squeezing a Juicy Archive of Sticky Objects with Hélène Cixous’s Écriture Matérialiste.”QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking.

    Bahrainwala, L. & Nautiyal, J. (2023). “Queer Desi Kinships.” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. Special Issue on Re-examining Communication and Media Practices in/across Queer Asia.

    Nautiyal, J. (2021). Book Review. Joshua Gunn’s Political Perversion: Rhetorical Aberration in the Time of Trumpeteering. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Communication Research Trends.

    Nautiyal, J. (2020). “Tease and Persist: A Scratchy Note to White ‘Allies’.” Women & Language, 43(1), 141-145 (invited forum essay).

    Nautiyal, J. (2020). “Queer Aesthetics and Playful Politics in Luca Guadagnino’s Filmic Adaptation ‘Call Me by Your Name’: An Artful Rhizome.” In Routledge International Handbook of Communication and Gender (invited book chapter).

    Nautiyal, J. (2018). “Becoming a Detour de Force: De-hierarchizing Directionality and Mobility in Rhetorical Research.” Women’s Studies in Communication (special issue), 41(4), 430-40.

    Stroud, S. R., & Nautiyal, J. (2018). “Stoic Rhetoric and the Ethics of Empowered Individualism: “The Will to Believe” as Moral Philosophy.” In J. L. Goodson (ed.), William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life: The Cries of the Wounded. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

    Stroud, S. R., & Nautiyal, J. (2017). “Embedded Stories and the Use of ambiguity in Ancient Indian Narratives: Selfshadowing in the Anugītā.” Journal of Narrative Theory, 47(2), 167-196.

    Nautiyal, J. (2016). “Aesthetic and Affective Experiences in Coffee shops: A Deweyan Engagement with Ordinary affects in Ordinary spaces.” Education and Culture: The Journal of John Dewey Society, 32 (2), 99-118.

    Nautiyal, J. (2016). Writing the Desire that Fire Bore: Emergent Motherhood in Hélène Cixous’s The Book of Promethea. Women’s Studies in Communication, 39(4), 380-398 (lead article).

    Nautiyal, J. (2016). “Listening with/to Nature’s Voice: An Ethical Polyphony.” International Journal of Listening, 30(3), 151-162.