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Yea-Wen Chen

yea-wen.chen@sdsu.eduorcid.org/0000-0001-7771-9871

Appointments

  • Professor, 2016-Present
    School of Communication, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, US
  • Assistant Professor, 2010-2016
    School of Communication Studies, Ohio University, Athens, OH, US

  • Doctor of Philosophy, 2006-2010
    Department of Communication & Journalism, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, US

Profile updated October 8, 2026.

Scholarship

Academic Publications

Negotiating Academic Voice Vis-à-Vis Instructor Feedback: Salient Moments as First-Generation College Students in the U. S. Communication Discipline
Maxwell Groznik; Yea-Wen Chen
Journal of First-Generation Student Success, 2026, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 1
Academic writing Education, Higher Educational sociology First-generation college students
Spirituality and Family Communication: Proposing “Taoist Family Spirituality” As Co-Constituted Practices Among Minnan-Speaking Taiwanese Families
Yea-Wen Chen
Journal of Family Communication, 2025, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 1
Communication in families Southern Min dialects Taiwan Taoism
“I felt too involved in something that I didn’t know how to deal with”: navigating emotional labor as “immigrant” women in U.S. Academia
Yea-Wen Chen; Brandi Lawless
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 2025, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 11
Education, Higher Feminism Women immigrants Women's studies
“ You’re so Brave ”: Unpacking Fatphobic (Micro)Aggressions with “Body-Positive” Influencers and Activists
Yea-Wen Chen; Victoria Kalaydjian; Alyssa Dwyer
Emerging Media, 2024, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 4
Activism Body positivity movement Discrimination against overweight persons Microaggressions
“Just holding that space”: Using Culturally Relevant Pedagogy to Create Counterspaces for Black College Students in AANAPISI/HSI Classrooms
Nicholas Lacy; Yea-Wen Chen; Damariyé Smith
Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2024, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 3
College students, Black Culturally relevant pedagogy Education, Higher Inclusive education

I’m just trying to fill my kids up: parents’ pre-emptive (re)construction of identities amidst rising anti-Muslim rhetoric in the United States
Marwa Abdalla; Yea-Wen Chen
Journal of Applied Communication Research, 2023, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 4
Islamophobia Muslims Parents Rhetoric
“ There is not just one way of doing it ”: A queer intercultural analysis of same-sex adoptive parents’ (dis-)identifications with family-making
Dacheng Zhang; Yea-Wen Chen
Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 2023, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 6
Family planning Intercultural communication Queer theory Same-sex parents
“Spat On and Coughed At”: Co-Cultural Understanding of Chinese International Students’ Experiences with Stigmatization during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Yadong Ji; Yea-Wen Chen
Health Communication, 2023, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 57
China COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-) Stigmatization Xenophobia
“Is it because I’m international?”: Unpacking experiences of “international instructors” via critical communication pedagogy as aligned with cultural wealth
Yea-Wen Chen; Molly Wiant Cummins; Christina E. Saindon; Dacheng Zhang
Communication Education, 2022, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 8
Critical pedagogy Culturally sustaining pedagogy Intercultural communication International education
“So, it’s like you’re swimming against the tide”: Didactic avowals and parenting as intersectional Muslim women in the United States
Marwa I. Abdalla; Yea-Wen Chen
Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 2022, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 3
Intersectionality (Sociology) Muslims Parenting Women
“It takes a village”: proposing critically reflexive (co-)mentoring with underrepresented students as racialized, gendered, and othered
Nicholas B. Lacy; Yea-Wen Chen
Communication Education, 2022, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 7
Critical pedagogy Education, Higher Intersectionality (Sociology) Mentoring in education
Paradoxes of Belonging, Organizing, and Agency: Integrating and Differentiating Divergent Strategic Logics in Supported Social Enterprises
Yea-Wen Chen; Jean Claude Kwitonda
International Journal of Strategic Communication, 2021, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 2
Belonging (Social psychology) Community development Organizational behavior Strategic planning
Still a “Sensitive” Subject? Unpacking Strengths and Struggles of Intercultural Communication Pedagogies
Brandi Lawless; Yea-Wen Chen
Howard Journal of Communications, 2020, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 13
Culturally relevant pedagogy Intercultural communication Intercultural communication in education
“We are the Unusual Factor”: Queering Family Communication Norms with Gay Adoptive Parents
Dacheng Zhang; Yea-Wen Chen
Journal of Family Communication, 2020, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 13
Gay adoption Gay parents Gender identity Queer theory
Rebecca Tiessen, Learning and Volunteering Abroad for Development: Unpacking Host Organization and Volunteer Rationales, Routledge, London and New York, 2018, pp. 161, Bibliography, Index, $29.95
Yea-Wen Chen
Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2019, journal article
Development Studies Network Learning Non-governmental organizations Voluntarism
Centering epistemologies on the margins and borders: reflections on an Hispanic-serving institution’s attempts to embrace equity and cultural wealth
Yea-Wen Chen
Communication Education, 2019, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 2
Education, Higher Equity
Teaching Critical Moments within Neoliberal Universities: Exploring Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy
Yea-Wen Chen; Brandi Lawless
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 2019, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 20
Critical pedagogy Critical thinking Education, Higher Intercultural communication in education
When religion meets academia: Millennial Christians becoming cultural Others on a minority-serving campus in the United States
Yea-Wen Chen; Kelsey Chalko; Michael Bonilla
Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 2019, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 3
Christianity Christians Education, Higher Generation Y
Emotions and Pan-Asian Organizing in the U.S. Southwest: Analyzing Interview Discourses via Sentiment Analysis
Yea-Wen Chen; Masato Nakazawa
Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2017, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 6
Asian Americans Emotions Sentiment analysis Social movements
Online, mixed, and offline media multitasking: Role of cultural, socio-demographic, and media factors
Jatin Srivastava; Masato Nakazawa; Yea-Wen Chen
Computers in Human Behavior, 2016, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 44
Human-computer interaction Mass media Mixed media Social influence
“Reclaiming Their Historical Agency”: A Critical Analysis of International News Discourses on Occupy and Arab Spring
Brandi Lawless; Yea-Wen Chen
Howard Journal of Communications, 2016, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 1
Arab Spring (2010-) Middle East Occupy movement Social movements
Cultural Identities
Yea-Wen Chen; Hengjun Lin
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, 2015, book, Cited by: OpenAlex: 24
Anthropology Culture Group identity Identity (Philosophical concept)
“Are You an Immigrant?”: Identity-Based Critical Reflections of Teaching Intercultural Communication: “Are You an Immigrant?”
Yea-Wen Chen
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2014, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 13
Culturally relevant pedagogy Emigration and immigration Intercultural communication in education Multiculturalism
Facing a crisis of ‘unlikely’ relationships? Discourses of friendship and alliance across differences
Yea-Wen Chen
Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 2013, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 1
Crisis management Diversity in the workplace Friendship Interpersonal relations
Using Six-word Memoirs to Increase Cultural Identity Awareness
Nathaniel Simmons; Yea-Wen Chen
Communication Teacher, 2013, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 8
Creative writing Culturally sustaining pedagogy Diversity in higher education Personal narratives
Intercultural Identity Positioning: Interview Discourses from Two Identity-Based Nonprofit Organizations
Yea-Wen Chen; Mary Jane Collier
Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 2012, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 37
Group identity Intercultural communication Nonprofit organizations

Other

Updating Face Negotiation in Cross-Cultural Conflict through Examining Multilevel Influences on Culture - Yea-Wen Chen, Courtney Fletcher, and John Oetzel 159
Yea-Wen Chen
The Interface of Business and Culture, other