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Biography

Dr. Michaela Frischherz earned her Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa in 2015. She also holds a M.A. in Cultural Analysis from the Universiteit van Amsterdam and a B.A. in Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs from Miami University, Ohio. Michaela specializes in cultural and rhetorical criticism with an emphasis on feminist and queer ways of knowing. Her research focuses on the meaning-making practices forged by women and other historically disenfranchised genders communicating pleasure and sex in various public spheres.  Michaela believes we all deserve to feel pleasure and is guided by an ethic of pleasure activism, which prioritizes the pleasure of the most marginalized among us. Her latest article, published in Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, explores the agential possibilities of 鈥渟exual failure鈥� with women in critical focus groups. Michaela teaches courses in rhetorical theory and criticism, sexual communication, research methods, queer/lgbt communication studies, and a study abroad experience in Amsterdam, Netherlands. When she鈥檚 not studying the communicative dimensions of sex, Michaela enjoys spending time with her community and a dog named Holly.  

Forthcoming Publications

Michaela Frischherz & Michael Tristano, "Queer Failures in the Gender Communication & Sexual Communication Classroom," in Kratzer, J. & Rowe, D. (Eds.) The Cruel and Reparative Possibilities of Failure. Lexington Books

Publications

Michaela Frischherz and Desir茅e Rowe, 鈥淔aking it, Finishing, and Ambivalence: Women鈥檚 Negotiations of (Sexual) Failure in Conversation,鈥� Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 12:1 (2023), 27-49.  

Desir茅e Rowe and Michaela Frischherz, 鈥淚ntroducing the Anti Method Paradigm [Or, When Reviewer #2 Says Your Interdisciplinary Work is Vague, Messy, and Unrecognizable],鈥� Review of Communication, 23:2 (2023) DOI:  

Desir茅e Rowe and Michaela Frischherz, 鈥淔ocus Groups as Critical-Cultural Method within Communication Studies,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Western Journal of Communication, 86:5 (2022), 483-502.

Michaela Frischherz, 鈥淧leasure and Queer Communication Studies,鈥� in Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies & Communication, eds. Isaac N. West and E Cram, 20 June, (2022), 

Michaela Frischherz, 鈥淧leasure and Anxiety in the Time of COVID-19,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;QED: A Journal of Queer Worldmaking, 7:3 (2020): 179-184. 

Michaela Frischherz, 鈥淏odies and Pleasures in Feminist Publics: The Rhetorical Effectivities of Fifty Shades of Grey,鈥� in Communication in Kink: Understanding the Influence of the Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon, ed. Jessica M.W. Kratzer (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020), 155-176.

Michaela Frischherz, 鈥淨ueer Adventures in the Forum and the Archive: Or, The Flood Made Immersion Possible,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Cultural Studies 脽脿 Critical Methodologies 20:2 (2020): 167-175.

Michaela Frischherz, 鈥淟istening to Orgasm: Hearing Pleasure鈥檚 Affects in the Normative Noise,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Argumentation and Advocacy 54:4 (2018): 270-286. Lead Article.   

Michaela Frischherz, 鈥淎 Slowness to Judge the Acronym鈥檚 Orientations: Objectum-Sexuality and the Rhetorical Politics of Giving an Account,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Women & Language 41:1 (2018): 62-78.

Michaela Frischherz, 鈥淐osmo Complaints:  Reparative Reading and the Possibility of Pleasure in Cosmopolitan&苍产蝉辫;惭补驳补锄颈苍别,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Sexualities 21:4 (2018): 552-568.

Michaela Frischherz, 鈥淎ffective Agency and Transformative Shame: The Voices Behind The Great Wall of Vagina,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Women鈥檚 Studies in Communication 38:3 (2015): 251-272.  Lead Article.

Isaac West, Michaela Frischherz, Allison Panther, and Richard Brophy, 鈥淨ueer Worldmaking in the 鈥業t Gets Better鈥� Campaign,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;QED: A Journal of GLTBQ Worldmaking, Inaugural Issue (2013): 49-86.