David Gudelunas is Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Tampa where he also serves as Professor of Communication. Gudelunas received his PhD and MA from the University of Pennsylvania and his BA from the University of San Francisco.
He previously served as Director of the School of Communication, Arts and Media, Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, chair of the graduate and undergraduate programs in Communication, and as Director of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Fairfield University .
Gudelunas researches and teaches in the areas emerging media technologies, gender, sexuality and communication, and communication industries. In addition to being a popular teacher, he is a widely published scholar and the author of Confidential to America: Newspaper Advice Columns and Sexual Education (Routledge) and co-editor of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture (Palgrave) and Drag in the Global Digital Public Sphere: Queer Visibility, Online Discourse and Political Change Hi