Waskul, Dennis, Ph.D.About: Dennis Waskul is an Associate Professor of Sociology. He is author of Self-Games and Body Play: Personhood in Online Chat and Cybersex (Peter Lang 2003), editor of net.seXXX: Readings on Sex, Pornography, and the Internet (Peter Lang 2004), and co-editor of Body/Embodiment: Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body (Ashgate 2006). Dennis has published extensively in areas of symbolic interaction, sociology of the body, sociology of the senses, sexualities, and computer-mediated communications. Dennis is currently the Production Editor for the journal Symbolic Interaction.
Professional interest: Symbolic interaction, sociology of the body, sociology of the senses, sexualities, qualitative methods, internet studies, sociological miniturism.
Courses taught: Social Psychology (graduate and undergraduate), human sexualities, qualitative research methods, ethnography, sociological theory, social problems, introduction to sociology