Faculty

Aubrey Huber

Associate Professor and Director of Public Speaking
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Office: CIS 3031
Phone: 813-974-6098

Biography

Dr. Huber joined the faculty as an Instructor in 2014. She does research at the intersections of pedagogy, performance, and intercultural communication. Her recent book Communicating Social Justice in Teacher Education: Insights from a Critical Classroom Ethnography (2022) examines how ideas of social justice are articulated and communicated by pre-service teachers and graduate teaching assistants in the US. Using a social justice framework, the book examines the ways in which new teachers contend with their identities as educators, and demonstrates how these communicative performances influence pre-service and new teachers’ perceptions of their role, as well as their responsibility to engage with social justice and critical approaches in the classroom. Her book co-authored with Dr. Chris McRae, Creating Performances for Teaching and Pedagogy: A Practice Session for Pedagogy (2017) offers a conceptual framework for employing creative practices as a starting point for theorizing pedagogy and developing teaching methods that are grounded in aesthetic, creative, and critical approaches to education. Her working projects engage creative practice, collaboration, and social justice. 

RESEARCH AREAS

Pedagogy, performance, and intercultural communication