Dr. Stephanie L. Young is a Professor of Communication Studies and Director of the Basic Course at the University of Southern Indiana. Her research examines the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality in television, film, and popular culture. Additionally, her autoethnographic works focus on the intersection of bisexuality and biracialism, specifically mixed raced Asian American identities. She has published in several scholarly journals including the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, QED: Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking, Women's Studies in Communication, and Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. She is the co-author of the book Pursuing Popular Culture: Methods for Researching the Everyday (2016) and the co-editor of Queer(ing) Communication Studies: Disruptions, Discussions, and Pathways (2025). She currently is working on an autoethnographic book project that explores Korean American mother-daughter relationships and the ways in hybrid identities are relationally constructed and geographically placed.
In her spare time, Dr. Young enjoys analyzing television shows and films, cooking, swimming, kayaking, running, and spending time with her cats.
