Dr. Leigh Anne Howard is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Southern Indiana. She studies the intersection of performance, culture, and personal and social identity, as well as critical performance pedagogy. Her scholarship has appeared in Text and Performance Quarterly, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Communication Education, the American Behavioral Scientist, and the Journal of Intercultural Communication (formerly the World Communication Journal). Her most recent publications are the anthologies, Performativity, Cultural Construction and the Graphic Narrative, which she co-edited with Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw (Routledge, 2020) and Home and Away: Lived Experience in Performative Narrative (Routledge, 2022). She is also producer and writer with Dr. Dave Black of the documentary, Art for Science's Sake Stalking John James Audubon. Her teaching, research, and service has earned her numerous honors, including the John I. Sisco Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Southern States Communication Association, the Park Award for Excellence in Research by the World Communication Association, the Sydney and Sadelle Berger Faculty Community Service Award and H. Lee Cooper Core Curriculum Teaching Award, both by the University of Southern Indiana.
