Sandra Faulkner
Professor of Communication
Communication
Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
404 Kuhlin
419-372-1998
sandraf@bgsu.edu
Research/Teaching Interests:
Cultural & Ethnic Identities and Sexual Talk in Close Relationships, Qualitative Methodology and Poetic Inquiry
Recent Publications:
Recent Publications- Books
Faulkner, S. L., & Squillante, S. (2016). Writing the Personal: Getting Your Stories onto the Page. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Faulkner, S. L. (2014). Family Stories, Poetry, and Women’s Work: Knit Four, Frog One (Poems). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Faulkner, S. L. (Ed.). (2013). Inside Relationships: A Creative Case Book on Relational Communication. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
Faulkner, S. L. (2009). Poetry as Method: Reporting Research through Verse. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
Recent Publications- Book Chapters
Lannutti, P., & Faulkner, S. L. (2016). Everyday experiences of people in samesex relationships. In J. Manning and C. Noland (Eds.), Contemporary Studies of Sexuality & Communication: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives. Dubuque, IA: KendallHunt.
Faulkner, S. L., Davis, A. M., Hicks, M. V. & Lannutti, P. J. (2016). Sexual and Relational Health Messages for Women Who Have Sex with Women (WSW). In A. Madlock Gatison (Ed.), Communicating women’s health: Social and cultural norms that influence health decisions (pp. 121133). Routledge.
Faulkner, S. L., & Nicole, C. (2016). Embodied poetics in mother poetry: Dialectics and discourses of mothering. In K. Galvin & M. Prendergast (Eds.), Poetic Inquiry II: Seeing, Understanding, Caring: Using Poetry as and for Inquiry (pp. 8198) Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Recent Publications- Journal Articles
Faulkner, S. L. (in press). Writing Practice: A narrative poem. International Review of Qualitative Inquiry.
Faulkner, S. L. (in press). Poetry is Politics: A Poetry Manifesto. International Review of Qualitative Inquiry.
Faulkner, S. L. (in press). MotherWork Collage (A Queer Scrapbook). QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking.
Wiebe, S., Guiney-Yallop, J. J., Fels, L., Richardson, P., Snowber, C., Honein, N., Leggo, C., Faulkner, S. L., & Dark, K. (in press). Poetic Inquiry of and on Play. Canadian Journal of Education/Revue canadienne de l'éducation
Faulkner, S. L., Kaunert, C., Kluch, Y., Koc, E. S., & Trotter S. (2016). Using arts-based research exercises to foster understanding of reflexivity in qualitative research. LEARNing Landscapes, 9(2), 197-212. Available at http://learninglandscapes.ca/images/documents/ll-no18/llspring2016_final_lr.pdf
Faulkner, S. L., & Lannutti, P. L. (2016). Representations of lesbian and bisexual women’s sexual and relational health in online video and text-based sources. Computers in Human Behavior, 63, 916-921. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.06.039
Faulkner, S. L. (2016). The art of criteria: Ars Criteria as demonstration of vigor in poetic inquiry. Qualitative Inquiry. doi:10.1177/1077800416634739
Faulkner, S. L. (2016). TEN: (The Promise of ArtsBased, Ethnographic, and Narrative Research in Critical Family Communication Research and Praxis). (editorial for special issue on Critical Approaches to Family Communication Research: Representation, Critique, and Praxis). Journal of Family Communication, 16(1), 915. doi:10.1080/15267431.2015.1111218
Faulkner, S. L. (2016). The art of criteria: Ars Criteria as demonstration of vigor in poetic inquiry. Qualitative Inquiry. doi:10.1177/1077800416634739
Faulkner, S. L. (2016). Postkarten aus Deutschland: A chapbook of ethnographic poetry. Liminalities, 12(1). Available at http://liminalities.net/121/postkarten.html
Faulkner, S. L. (2016). Cancer Triptych. Health Communication. doi:10.1080/10410236.2015.1020262
Faulkner, S. L., & Ruby, P. D. (2015). Feminist identity in romantic relationships: A relational dialectics analysis of email discourse as collaborative found poetry. Women’s Studies in Communication, 38(2), 206226.
Guiney Yallop, J. J., Wiebe, S., & Faulkner, S. L. (2014). Poetic Inquiry in/for/as (editorial for special issue on the practices of poetic inquiry). in education, 20(2), 111. Available at http://ineducation.ca/ineducation/issue/view/21
Faulkner, S. L. (2014). Bad Mom(my) Litany: Spanking cultural myths of middleclass motherhood. Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, 14(2), 138146. doi:10.1177/1532708613512270
Faulkner, S. L. (2013). Notes from a Pretty Straight Girl: Questioning identities in the field. Liminalities, 9(2), 3948. Available at http://liminalities.net/9 2/faulkner.pdf, winner best edited collection, Ethnography Division, National Communication Association, 2013.
Faulkner, S. L. (2012). Frogging It: A poetic analysis of relationship dissolution. Qualitative Research in Education, 1(2), 202227.
Faulkner, S. L. (2012). That Baby will Cost You: An intended ambivalent pregnancy. Qualitative Inquiry, 18(4), 333340.
Faulkner, S. L. & Hecht, M. L. (2011). The negotiation of closetable Identities: A Narrative Analysis of LGBTQ Jewish Identity. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 28(6), 829847. doi:10.1177/0265407510391338 Winner 2013 Franklin H. Knower Outstanding Article Award, National Communication Association, Interpersonal Communication Division.
Recent Presentations- Creative Work
Faulkner, S. L. (2016). Poem: I explain things to men. Rat’s Ass Review. Love and Ensuing Madness Section. Available at http://ratsassreview.net/?page_id=1070
Faulkner, S. L. (2015). Poem: Battle of the BF Girls, Rat’s Ass Review, 2. Available at http://ratsassreview.net/?page_id=879#Faulkner.
Faulkner, S. L. (October 28, 2015). Poem: The Interview. Pine Hills Review. Available at http://pinehillsreview.strose.edu/sandrafaulkner/.
Faulkner, S. L. (2015). Poems: Gefühle in Deutsch Klasse. Transcendence, 3, 3537. http://www.transcendencemagazine.com/
Faulkner, S. L. (2015). Poems: Ode to Jetlag; Deutsch Klasse am Mittwoch. TAB: The Journal of Poetry and Poetics, 3(4), 1417. http://journals.chapman.edu/ojs/index.php/TABJournal/issue/view/75
Faulkner, S. L. (June 22, 2015). Poem: Feeding. Straight Forward Poetry, 9,15.
Faulkner, S. L. Knit Four, Make One: Poems (chapbook). Somerville, MA: Kattywompus Press.
Faulkner, S. L. (April, 15, 2014). Poem: Remodeling Dream. Damselfly, 25 & 26. Available at http://damselflypress.net/poetry/issue2627poetry/
Faulkner, S. L. (March, 2104). Poems: my memories are mother; In the Court of Common Pleas. Gravel. Available at http://www.gravelmag.com
Faulkner, S. L. Poem: How to potty train when presenting a paper on maternal poetry. Mom Egg Review, 12, p. 22.
Faulkner, S. L. Poems: Farm Trilogy. Sugar House Review, 9, pp. 3739. UT: Salt Lake City.
Faulkner, S. L. Poem: Invitation to a Dead Grandmother. In Small Batch: An Anthology of Bourbon Poems, p. 9293. Two of Cups Press.
Faulkner, S. L. Poem: Pacifier Ode. Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined. Available at http://www.literarymama.com/poetry/archives/2013/03/ pacifierode.html
Faulkner, S. L. Hello Kitty Goes to College: Poems. (chapbook) Chicago, IL: dancing girl press. Finalist in Black River 2010 Poetry Chapbook Competition for manuscript Hello Kitty Goes to College.
Recent Awards & Recognition
Faulkner, S. L. (November, 2015). Postkarten aus Deutschland: A chapbook of ethnographic poetry. TOP PAPER. Paper presentation on the TOP PAPER PANEL for the Ethnography Division at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Las Vegas, NV.
2015 BGSU Faculty Senate Recognition Award: Faculty Mentor Award The Faculty Mentor Award rewards outstanding professional support of colleagues in the development of teaching, research and service initiatives.
2013 Franklin H. Knower Outstanding Article Award, National Communication Association, Interpersonal Communication Division. Sandra Faulkner and Michael L. Hecht’s (2011) article, entitled, “The Negotiation of Closetable Identities: A Narrative Analysis of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Queer Jewish Identity.” The article is published in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Volume 28, number 6.