Dr. Keith Nainby

Faculty Director for Advising and Learning Cohorts, California State University, Stanislaus (August 2019-present)

Professor, California State University, Stanislaus (September 2015-present)

Associate Professor, California State University, Stanislaus (September 2010-August 2015)

Assistant Professor, California State University, Stanislaus (September 2005-August 2010)

California State University, Stanislaus
Intercultural Communication (COMM 4160)
Rhetorical Theory (COMM 4140)
Communication Research Analysis (COMM 4030)
Communication in the Classroom (COMM 4020)
Oral Interpretation of Children's Literature (COMM 3400)
Communication Theory (COMM 3200)
Advanced Interpersonal Communication (COMM 3100)
Group Discussion Processes (COMM 2110)

San José State University
Language, Meaning and Culture (COMM 160)
Communication, Self and Society (COMM 105)
Writing Workshop (COMM 100W)
Communication Criticism (COMM 45)
Small Group Communication (COMM 41)
Public Speaking (COMM 20)

Santa Clara University
Advanced Interpersonal Communication (COM 100A)
Public Speaking (COM 20)

Hartnell College
Essentials of Public Speaking (SPE 1-A)

Gustavus Adolphus College
Small Group Communication (COM 237)
Interpersonal Communication (COM 117)

Southern Illinois University
School and Society (EDUC 311)
Introduction to Oral Communication: Speech, Self, and Society (SPCM 101)

Books

Nainby, Keith. Examining Blank Spaces and the: Taylor Swift Phenomenon: An Investigation of Contingent Identities. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2024.

Nainby, Keith and John M. Radosta. Bob Dylan in Performance: Song, Stage, and Screen. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2019.

Fassett, Deanna L. and Keith Nainby. Empowering Public Speaking: A Critical/Cultural Introduction. San Diego: Cognella, 2019.

Fassett, Deanna L., John T. Warren, and Keith Nainby. Communication: A Critical/Cultural Introduction (3rd edition). San Diego: Cognella, 2018.

Guest Editorships

McRae, Chris and Keith Nainby. Review of Communication 20.4 (2021): (Re)sounding Pedagogy: A Themed Issue on Pedagogies of/for/in Sound.

Deanna L. Fassett & Keith Nainby. Communication Education 68:4 (2019) Expanding the Scholarly Conversation: What Questions Have We (Not) Answered?

Book Chapters

Nainby, Keith and John Radosta. “These Times and These Tunnels are Haunted: Bob Dylan’s Archiving and Attic-Cleaning in the 1980s.” In Bob Dylan in the 1980s, Eds. Erin Callahan and Court Carney. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press (forthcoming).

Haryanto, Crystal F. and Keith Nainby. “The Complex Economics of Swiftie Culture.” In Taylor Swift Fandom, Ed. Adrienne Trier-Bieniek (forthcoming).

Nainby, Keith and John Radosta. “I’m Ready to Go Anywhere: Bob Dylan’s Propulsive Vector of Engagement with Audiences, 1964-1966.” In The Politics and Power of Bob Dylan’s Live Performances: Play a Song for Me. Eds. Erin Callahan and Court Carney. London: Routledge, 2024.

Nainby, Keith and John Radosta. “Sometimes I Turn: Bob Dylan’s Enduring Iconoclasm.” In Rock Music Icons: Musical and Cultural Impacts. Ed. Robert MacPartland. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2022.

Nainby, Keith. “Not Just Literature: Exploring the Performative Dimensions of Bob Dylan’s Work.” In The Polyvocal Bob Dylan, Eds. Joshua Toth and Nduka Otiono. London: Palgrave, 2019.

Nainby, Keith, and Amy K. Kilgard. “Minding the Gap: The Performativity of Administrative Identities.” In Critical Administration in Higher Education: Negotiating Political Commitment and Managerial Practice. Eds. Jay Brower and W. Benjamin Myers. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2019.

Fassett, Deanna L., and Keith Nainby. “Critical Communication Pedagogy.” In Handbook of Instructional Communication: Rhetorical and Relational Perspectives (2nd Ed.). Eds. Marian L. Houser and Angela M. Hosek (with Virginia P. Richmond, James C. McCroskey, Timothy P. Mottet). New York: Routledge, 2018.

Sandoval, Jennifer, and Keith Nainby. “Critical Communication Pedagogy and Critical Intercultural Communication.” In Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogies, Eds. Ahmet Atay and Satoshi Toyosaki. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2018.

Nainby, Keith. “Bob Dylan: Someone Else’s Stage.” In Political Rock, Eds. Mark Pedelty and Kristine Weglarz. London: Ashgate, 2013.

Jaasma, Marjorie A., Frances Jeffries and Keith Nainby. “Negotiation of Attachment/Separation Tension in Relationships Between Mothers and Daughters Who Are Pursuing Careers in Academia.” In Mothers and Daughters: Complicated Connections Across Cultures, Eds. Alice Deakins, Rebecca Lockridge, and Helen M. Sterk. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2012.

Nainby, Keith. “Interpersonal Communication for Leaders.” In DeCaro, Peter, Small Group Communication Synergy. Boston: Kendall Hunt, 2011.

Nainby, Keith. “Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making.” In DeCaro, Peter, Small Group Communication Synergy. Boston: Kendall Hunt, 2011.

Nainby, Keith. “Philosophical and Methodological Foundations of Communication Education,” in The SAGE Handbook of Communication and Instruction, Eds. John T. Warren and Deanna L. Fassett. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2010.

Nainby, Keith. “Opportunities and Challenges in a University-Level Program for First– Generation Students,” in The Invisibility Factor: Administrators and Faculty Reach Out to First–Generation College Students, Eds. Teresa Heinz Housel and Vickie L. Harvey. Boca Raton, FL: Brown Walker Press, 2009.

Publications: Articles in Peer–refereed Journals

C. Kyle Rudick, Michael Sollitto, Christopher Claus, Amy Aldridge Sanford, Keith Nainby, and Kathryn B. Golsan. “‘I was Gonna go off, but my Best Friend is White...’: Hispanic Students’ Co-Cultural Reasoning in a Hispanic Serving Institution.” Communication Quarterly 67.2 (2019): 158-177.

C. Kyle Rudick, Michael Sollitto, Christopher Claus, Amy Aldridge Sanford, Keith Nainby, and Kathryn B. Golsan. “Comparing Hispanic-to-White Co-Cultural Communication at Four-Year, Public Hispanic Serving and Predominately White Institutions.” Communication Reports 30.1 (2017): 1-12

Fassett, Deanna L., and Keith Nainby. “Toward Transformation.” Communication Education 65.1 (2016): 120-122.

McRae, Christopher J., and Keith Nainby. “Engagement Beyond Interruption: A Performative Perspective on Listening and Ethics.” Educational Studies 51.2 (2015): 168-184.

Nainby, Keith. “Wanting the World: A Response to ‘Navigating with the Stars.’” Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 7.4 (2014): 317-321.

Dannels, Deanna P., Ann Darling, Deanna L. Fassett, Jeff Kerrsen–Griep, Derek Lane, Timothy P. Mottet, Keith Nainby and Deanna Sellnow. “Inception: Beginning an New Conversation about Communication Pedagogy and Scholarship.” Communication Education 63.4 (2014): 366-382.

Nainby, Keith. “Cadence/Silence/Presence: A Response to ‘Miles Away from the Cool’.” Text and Performance Quarterly 34.3 (2014): 326-329.

Nainby, Keith. “Free, Stuck, Tangled: Bob Dylan, the ‘Self’ and the Performer’s Critical Perspective.” Contemporary Theatre Review 21.3 (Forum: Music as Performance, Ed. Todd J. Coulter and Elizabeth Patterson) (2011): 286-301.

Nainby, Keith. Book review of Folktales Retold: A Critical Overview of Stories Updated for Children by Amie A. Doughty. Women & Language 32.1 (2009): 113-114.

Nainby, Keith and Deanna L. Fassett. “Effacement and Metaphor: Searching for the Body in Educational Discourse.” Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 4.3 (2008): 1-25.

Nainby, Keith. “Take and Give.” Faculty Voices, California State University, Stanislaus, 2006.

Nainby, Keith, John T. Warren, and Christopher Bollinger. “Articulating Contact in the Classroom: Towards a Constitutive Focus in Critical Pedagogy.” Language and Intercultural Communication 3.3 (2003): 198-212.

Nainby, Keith and John B. Pea. “Immobility in Mobility: Narratives of Social Class, Education, and Paralysis.” Educational Foundations 17.3 (2003): 19-36.

Curriculum Development

"Public Speaking and Agriculture," California Post–Secondary Agriculture Curriculum Resources (Spring 2008)

Instructional Workshops and Presentations

Workshop Facilitator, Teaching and Learning Institute, California State University, Stanislaus/Phranakhon Rajabhat University (January 2009, January 2008, June 2007)

Forum Theatre Workshop, Graduate Teaching Associate Orientation, Department of Communication Studies, San José State University (August 2008, August 2007, August 2006, August 2005, August 2004, August 2003)

Teacher Identity Workshop, Graduate Teaching Associate Orientation, Department of Communication Studies, San José State University (August 2008, August 2007, August 2006, August 2005, August 2004, August 2003)

Forum Theatre Workshop, Graduate Teaching Associate Orientation, Communication Studies Department, San Francisco State University (August 2007)

"Communication in the Classroom." Workshop, Communication Studies Lab and Resource Center, San José State University (March 2005, October 2004)

"Plan of Attack: Strategies for Getting Ready to Present." Workshop, Communication Studies Lab and Resource Center, San José State University (October 2004)

"Communication in the Classroom." Workshop, Communication Studies Lab and Resource Center, San José State University (November 2003)

Video Production Workshop Leader, Department of Speech Communication, Southern Illinois University (March 2002)

Discussion Facilitator, Graduate Teaching Assistant Orientation, Department of
Speech Communication, Southern Illinois University (August 2000)

Chair, Student Commencement Speakers Selection Committee (Spring 2010, Member Spring 2007-present)

Board of Directors, California State University, Stanislaus Faculty Mentor Program (Fall 2008-present)

Faculty Mentor, California State University, Stanislaus Faculty Mentor Program
(Fall 2006-present)

Academic Senator, Department of Communication Studies, California State University, Stanislaus (Fall 2008-present)

Principal Author, Academic Program Review, Department of Communication Studies, California State University, Stanislaus (Spring 2009)

Member, Curriculum Committee, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, California State University, Stanislaus (Fall 2009-present)

Member, Assessment Leadership Team, California State University, Stanislaus (Spring 2008-present)

Member, Self–Study Team, Inquiry Circle One (Engaging a Highly Diverse Student Population in Learning), California State University, Stanislaus (Fall 2008- present)

Member, Support Unit Review for the Office of Institutional Research, California State University, Stanislaus (Fall 2009-present)

Member, Faculty Coordinator for the Assessment of Student Learning Search Committee (Spring 2009)

Program Assessment Coordinator, Department of Communication Studies, California State University, Stanislaus (Fall 2006-Present)

Coordinator/Advisor for the Communication Concentration in Liberal Studies, Department of Communication Studies, California State University, Stanislaus (Fall 2005-Present)

Head of the Communication Education Curriculum Area, Department of Communication Studies, California State University, Stanislaus (Fall 2005- Present)

Chair, Scheduling Committee, Department of Communication Studies, California State University, Stanislaus (Fall 2009-Present)

Chair, Curriculum and Resources Committee, Department of Communication Studies, California State University, Stanislaus (Fall 2008-Spring 2009)

Member, Curriculum and Resources Committee, Department of Communication Studies, California State University, Stanislaus (Fall 2006-Spring 2008)

Member, Search Committee, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Department of Communication Studies, California State University, Stanislaus (Fall 2006-Spring 2008)

Member, Scholarship Committee, Department of Communication Studies, California State University, Stanislaus (Fall 2006-Spring 2009)

Guest Presenter, New Student Orientation, California State University, Stanislaus
(July 2008)

Course Coordinator, Group Discussion Processes (COMM 2110), Department of Communication Studies, California State University, Stanislaus (Fall 2006-Spring 2008)

Faculty Participant in the "Teacher Quality Enhancement Project," a collaboration among the Center For Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence at the University of California at Berkeley, California State University, Stanislaus and Modesto City Schools. Principal Investigator: Dr. Joan Wink (Winter 2006-Winter 2007)

Assistant to the Department Chair, Department of Communication Studies, California State University, Stanislaus (Fall 2006-Spring 2007)

Member of Search Committee, Department of Communication Studies, California State University, Stanislaus (Spring 2008, Spring 2007)

Invited Returning Faculty Participant, New Faculty Orientation, California State University, Stanislaus (August 2006)

Scheduled Respondent, "Top Papers in Communication and Instruction," Western States Communication Association convention, Anchorage, AK (March 2010)

Chair and Respondent, "Can I Get a Witness?: 'Saving' Ourselves from the First Church of Critical Dogma." Western States Communication Association convention, Phoenix, AZ (February 2009)

Respondent, "Critical Communication Pedagogy: Explorations in GTA Professional Development." Western States Communication Association convention,
Phoenix, AZ (February 2009)

Paper and Panel reviewer, Communication and Instruction Interest Group, Western States Communication Association convention, Seattle, WA (February 2008, reviewed September 2007)

Respondent, "Competitive Papers in Communication and Instruction II." Western States Communication Association convention, Bloomfield, CO (February 2008)

Chair and Respondent, "Performance on the Air: Examining Performance on the Radio and Radio as Performance." Western States Communication Association convention, Bloomfield, CO (February 2008)

Paper and panel reviewer, Communication and Instruction Interest Group, Western States Communication Association convention, Seattle, WA (February 2007, reviewed September 2006)

Respondent, "Pressing Issues in Communication and Instruction: Ethics, Gender, Race, and Difference." Western States Communication Association convention,
Seattle, WA (February 2007)

Chair, "Social Justice and Social Action By Way of the Classroom." Western States Communication Association convention, Seattle, WA (February 2007)

Respondent, "Connecting Performance and Pedagogy on Campus." National Communication Association convention, San Antonio, TX (November 2006)

Chair and Program Planner, Communication and Instruction Interest Group, Western States Communication Association (February 2005-February 2006)

Respondent, "Competitive Papers in Communication and Instruction." Western States Communication Association convention, Palm Springs, CA (February 2006)

Respondent, "Culture and Communication: Implications for Pedagogy." Western States Communication Association convention, Palm Springs, CA (February 2006) 

Paper reviewer, Intercultural Interest Group, Western States Communication Association convention, Palm Springs, CA (February 2006, reviewed October 2005)

Respondent, "Competitive Papers in Communication and Instruction II." Western States Communication Association convention, San Francisco, CA (February 2005)

Respondent, "Performing Response to Reading the News." Western States Communication Association convention, San Francisco, CA (February 2005)

Respondent, "Top Four Competitive Papers in Communication and Instruction." Western States Communication Association convention, San Francisco, CA (February 2005)

Chair and Facilitator, "Master Teacher Award." Western States Communication Association convention, San Francisco, CA (February 2005)

Vice chair, Communication and Instruction Interest Group, Western States Communication Association (February 2004-February 2005)

Panel reviewer, Performance Studies Interest Group, Western States Communication Association convention, San Francisco, CA (February 2005, reviewed October 2004)

Chair, Master Teacher Selection Committee, Communication and Instruction Interest Group, Western States Communication Association (October 2004)

Panel and paper reviewer, Communication and Instruction Interest Group, Western States Communication Association convention, San Francisco, CA, (February 2005, reviewed October 2004)

Videography, She Rises Like a Building to the Sky, by Mercilee Jenkins, San Francisco State University (May 2004)

Habitat for Humanity Volunteer, Jimmy Carter Work Project, Valdosta, GA (June 2003)

Video design and production, Burning Old Main, Marion Kleinau Theatre, Southern Illinois University (April 2002)

Sound production, Deconstructing the Oreo, Marion Kleinau Theatre, Southern Illinois University (January 2002)

"The Season," by Keith Nainby and John B. Pea, An Evening of Graduate Student Performances, Marion Kleinau Theatre, Southern Illinois University (August 2001)

Vice-president, Southern Illinois University Speech Communication Organization
(May 2000-April 2001)

Graduate Teaching Assistant Mentor, Department of Speech Communication, Southern Illinois University (Spring 2001, Fall 2000)

Speech Communication Department Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Southern Illinois University (May 1999-April 2000)

Abbey Flybynight, by Margie Pignataro, Greylight Theatre Collective, Murphysboro, IL (October 1999)

"This Plagiarizing Hand," by Keith Nainby, Southern Illinois Regional Effort for AIDS Benefit, Carbondale, IL (July 1999)

Enemy Towers, by Kenneth Boe, Greylight Theatre Collective, Murphysboro, IL (April 1999)

Speech Communication Department Graduate Committee, Southern Illinois University (August 1998-April 1999)

Storyteller, Southern Illinois Community Schools (October 1998)

Guest Lecturer, Society and Gender (GEND 3550), California State University, Stanislaus (April 2009, April 2008)

Facilitator, Non–fiction Reading Group, California State University, Stanislaus Faculty Development Center (Fall 2009)

Participant, Pedagogy Reading Group, California State University, Stanislaus Faculty Development Center (Spring 2008)

Participant, "Playback Theatre and Community Action Workshop," Western States Communication Association convention, Palm Springs, CA, (February 2006)

Guest Lecturer, History of Jazz (MUS 3410), California State University, Stanislaus (October 2005)

Guest Performer, Storytelling (SPCM371), Southern Illinois University (March 1999)

Education and Social Theory Reading Group, Southern Illinois University (August 2000-May 2001)

Nominee, Elizabeth Anne B. Papageorge Award for Excellence in Teaching, California State University, Stanislaus (Spring 2010, Spring 2008)

College of Humanities and Social Sciences Celebration Award for Teaching, California State University, Stanislaus (May 2008)

Nominee, Elizabeth Anne B. Papageorge Faculty Development Award, California State University, Stanislaus (Spring 2008)

Faculty Appreciation Award, California State University, Stanislaus (Spring 2006)

Nominee for an ALS Celebration Award as "Junior Faculty with Outstanding Promise," California State University, Stanislaus (Spring 2006)

Named an Influential Professor in the life of a College of Social Sciences Dean's Scholar, San José State University (Spring 2006 and Spring 2005)

Kleinau Service Award, Performance Studies, Department of Communication, Southern Illinois University (May 2002)

Delyte and Dorothy Morris Doctoral Fellowship, Southern Illinois University
(August 1998-July 2001)

Nominee for the Thomas J. Pace Award for Excellence in Teaching, Southern Illinois University (April 2001)

Dean's List, Boston University (Four of seven semesters in undergraduate course work)

Finalist for National Merit Scholar, 1987

National Communication Association

Western States Communication Association