Professor Ahmet Atay

Ahmet Atay (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University- Carbondale) is a Professor of Global Media and Communication at the College of Wooster. His research focuses on diasporic experiences and cultural identity formations; political and social complexities of city life, such as immigrant and queer experiences; the usage of new media technologies in different settings; and the notion of home; representation of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in media; queer and immigrant experiences in cyberspace, and critical communication pedagogies. He is the author of Globalization’s Impact on Identity Formation: Queer Diasporic Males in Cyberspace (2015) and the co-editor of several books. His scholarship appeared in a number of journals and edited books.

Expertise

Media and film studies, New media studies, Cultural studies, Queer theory and gender studies, Globalization, Postcolonial and decolonial studies, Autoethnography