Kurt Lindemann

Kurt Lindemann Associate Dean of Academic Affairs PSFA SDSU

Pronouns: He/Him/His
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts

SDSU

Email

Primary Email: [email protected]

Phone/Fax

Primary Phone: 619-594-1423
Fax: 619-594-6974

Building/Location

Professional Studies and Fine Arts - 212

Bio

Dr. Lindemann earned his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 2006. After earning a B.A. in Communication and Theatre Arts and Written Communication from Eastern Michigan University, he received an M.S. in Communication from Illinois State University in 1995 and an M.A. in English Language and Literature from Eastern Michigan University in 1997. He has been teaching at SDSU since 2006. He has served as Basic Course Director and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Communication.

His work primarily examines communicative performances of identity in organizational and mediated contexts. Most recently, his research has been focused on men’s narratives of grief. In addition to publishing articles on this topic, he has adapted for the stage and performed his research in numerous performance venues. His work has appeared in a variety of scholarly journals, books, and popular press magazines, including Qualitative Inquiry, Text and Performance Quarterly, Western Journal of Communication, Southern Journal of Communication, and Rebel Magazine.

Awards & Honors

  • Circle of Excellence, Division of Student Affairs, Residential Education Office, San Diego State University, 2014
  • Favorite Faculty Award Winner, Division of Student Affairs, Residential Education Office, San Diego State University, 2013
  • Sony Electronics Faculty Award for Innovative Instruction with Technology, California State University, 2012

Courses

  • Performance Studies
  • Ethnographic Methods
  • Organizational Communication
  • Gender and Communication
  • Research Methods

Publications

  • Lindemann, K. (2025). Composing research, communicating results: Writing the Communication research paper. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. 2nd edition
     
  • Dykstra-DeVette, T.A., Nicastro, A., Canary, H.E., Lindemann, K., Mosby, S. (2024). Maneuvering tensions to improve military knowing: Exploring structure, strategy, and temporal orientation. Journal of Applied Communication Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2026.2629915.
     
     
  • Lindemann, K. & Chen, Y.W. (2024). Autoethnographic approaches in qualitative organizational communication research. In Brummans, B.H.J,M., Taylor, B., & Sivunen, A. (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Organizational Communication (pp. 220-238). SAGE.
     
     
  • Kramer, M. & Lindemann, K. (2020). Music therapy: An ethnographic approach to understanding how music therapists and adolescent patients communicate and perform community. In Afary, K. and A.M. Fritz (Eds.), More Than Words (pp. 175-194). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

  • Lindemann, K. (2016). Dear reader, (do) you know who you are: Voice and
    audience in H.L. Goodall, Jr.’s narrative ethnography. Qualitative Inquiry, 22, 30-35.