Graduate Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate

About

  • Find Me On:

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  • Website

    https://www.peyton-j-bonine.com/

  • Office Hours

    Wednesdays | 2-5 PM

  • Role

    Graduate Student

  • Position

    • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate

  • Concentration

    • Rhetoric and Civic Engagement

  • Department

    • Communication Studies

  • Education

    • Master of Arts (MA) | Communication Studies | Ball State University
    • Bachelor of Science (BS) | Communication Studies | Ball State University

Biography

My name is Peyton Bonine (he/him), and I am a third-year Ph.D. candidate from Terre Haute, Indiana. My research centers on trans and queer rhetorics, especially rhetorics of representation, resistance, and advocacy. In pursuit of my Ph.D. in Communication Studies, I lean into my concentration in Rhetoric and Civic Engagement through coursework engaging with rhetorical theory and criticism and themes of space and place. I also serve as an instructor of record for classes such as SPCM 200 (Public Speaking), SPCM 337 (Persuasion), SPCM 207 (Public Argumentation), and SPCM 412 (Rhetorical Criticism).

Publications

Bonine, P. J. (2025). Review of Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender
Communities by Laura Erickson-Schroth. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 11
(2).

Bonine, P. J, Fallon, C. D., & Crow, S. R. (2025). Reflecting on the Political Climate and 2024
Election Cycle: Graduate Student Perspectives on The Death of Polite Careerism and the Politics of Pretending by Court Fallon, A (white) Academic Bubble No More by Shelby Crow, and The Need for Insurgent Community Research by Peyton Bonine. Rhetoric, Politics, & Culture, 3 (2) (pp. 73–78). https://doi.org/10.14321/rpc.3.2.0073

Bonine, P. J. (2024). Review of Queer Democracy: Desire, Dysphoria, and the Body Politic by Daniel D. Miller. Women & Language, 47(1), (pp. 133-139).
https://doi.org/10.34036/WL.2024.007

Denker, K. J., Knight, K., Carroll, R. K., Bradley, K. R., Bonine, P. J., Lauck, S. M., Przytulski, H. S., & Storr, M. L. (2022). Assessing student mindset, interest, participation, and rapport in the post-pandemic public speaking classroom: Effects of modality change and communication growth mindset. Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 6, (pp 178-194). https://doi.org/10.31446/JCP.2022.1.14