Dr. Jill Fredenburg

Assistant Professor of Teaching (Communication Studies), Basic Course Coordinator (COMM 2381)

245K Art & Communication Building jfrdnbrg@memphis.edu

About

Jill Fredenburg (she/her) is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Communication & Film at the University of Memphis, where she also serves as Course Coordinator for COMM 2381, Oral Communication. Her teaching includes public speaking, media literacy, digital and social media, rhetoric, and film and video production.

Fredenburg earned her PhD in Media & Rhetoric and a Certificate in Gender Studies from the University of Memphis, an MA in Communication, Culture & Technology from Georgetown University, and a BA in Studio Art from Rhodes College. Her research examines online communities, social media, creator and influencer cultures, and the ways emerging technologies shape identity, labor, education, and everyday life. She is particularly interested in media literacy, platform cultures, artificial intelligence, and the use of documentary and video as forms of research and public scholarship.

Education

PhD in Media and Rhetoric, University of Memphis
MA in Communication, Culture, and Technology, Georgetown University
BA in Art from Rhodes College

Selected Publications

Fredenburg, J. (2026). “Tilly Norwood and the Promise of Frictionless Creation: Feminist Pedagogy in AI-Saturated Classrooms.” Feminist Pedagogy, 7(2), 6.
Fredenburg, J. (2026). “Queer Visibility, Algorithmic Harm, and Platform Accountability.” In Queer Digital Lives: LGBTQ Realities and Resistance under Platform Capitalism, 262.
Fredenburg, T., Fredenburg, J., & Abrams-Rollinson, T. (2025). “Halfway Happy.” In Communication, Entertainment, and Messages of Social Justice, 27.
Fredenburg, J. (2024). “Unraveling Communication Failure: Room for Revision.” Feminist Pedagogy, 4(5), 2.
Fredenburg, J. (2023). “‘Camping’ or Abortion? Polyvariance and Coded Language on Social Media.” New Media & Society.
Fredenburg, J. (2023). “Bible Belt Queers: Zines as Both Placemaking and Protest.” In Global LGBTQ Activism: Social Media, Digital Technologies, and Protest Mechanisms, 377.
Fredenburg, J. (2023). Bible Belt Queers. In Global LGBTQ Activism: Social Media, Digital Technologies, and Protest Mechanisms, 259. Taylor & Francis.
Fredenburg, J. (2020). “Oral History as an Archive of YouTube's Importance to the LGBTQ+ Community and the Platform's Alleged Algorithmic Discrimination.” Gnovis Journal.
Fredenburg, J. (2020). LGBTQ+ Revolution 2.0. New Degree Press.