Gust A Yep Author

Gust A. Yep (Ph.D., M.A.. & B.A., University of Southern California) is Professor of Speech & Communication Studies and Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University. His teaching and research interests include critical intercultural communication, queer theory, communication and gender, media and popular culture, health communication, field research methods, and communication and sexualities. Yep co-authored Privacy and Disclosure of HIV in Interpersonal Relationships (Erlbaum, 2003), which was nominated for the 2004 International Communication Association "Book of the Year" Award. He was also the lead editor of Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s) (Harrington Park Press, 2003). Yep's work has appeared in numerous interdis-ciplinary journals and anthologies, such as AIDS Education and Prevention, Feminist Media Studies, His-panic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, International and Intercultural Communication Annual, Interna-tional Quarterly of Community Health Education, Journal of American College Health, Journal of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identity, Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of Lesbian Studies, and Journal of Social Behavior and Personality. He is recipient of several teaching and community service awards and he was the 1999 San Francisco State University nominee for the Carnegie Foundation "U.S. Professors of the Year" Award.