Toniesha Taylor

Toniesha Taylor is a Department Chair and Associate Professor of Communication in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, School of Communication at Texas Southern University. Her research foci in African American, Religion, Intercultural, Gender, and Digital Humanities.

She has cultivated her interest throughout her doctoral work at Bowling Green State University where she completed her Ph.D. in Communication Studies with a focus on Rhetoric in 2009. Her research, conference presentations, and publications speak to diverse interests. Recent research and conference presentations include discussions on womanist rhetoric as method and theory; practical social justice pedagogy for faculty and students; and digital humanities methods implications for activist recovery projects.

Her publications include “Saving Sound, Sounding Black, and Voicing America: John Lomax and the Creation of the “American Voice”' in Sounding Out!: The Sound Studies Blog and a co-authored essay with Amy E. Earhart titled “Pedagogies of Race: Digital Humanities in the Age of Ferguson” in Debates in Digital Humanities, 2016, ed. by Lauren Klein and Matthew Gold. She also contributed “Reflections on Sandra Bland on the 3rd Anniversary of Her Death” to the Online Roundtable on Sandra Bland, Black Perspectives, July 13, 2018, aaihs.org and in 2019 “Dear Nice White Ladies, A Womanist Response to Intersectional Feminism and Sexual Violence” to the forum in Women and Language 42, no. 1 (Spring 2019).

Taylor is an affiliate of the Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies at NYU and a National Teaching partner for the Colored Conventions Project.