Understanding Violence Means Looking Beyond the Rapist
A Chat with Dr. Kate Lockwood Harris about Beyond the Rapist: Title IX and Sexual Violence on US Campuses
Kate Lockwood Harris is an
Assistant Professor...
Citizen Critics
Are Dreams Instructive? — What Autoethnographic Research Might Reveal about Trump’s Rhetoric
Our dreams often are unsettling. Sometimes, however,
they also provide a unique picture of and insight into reality, giving us a
clearer and more vivid underst...
The Salvadoran Willie Horton: MS-13, Electoral Politics and Racialized Fear Mongering
Willie Horton –
A Reintroduction
As
criminologists, we study the relationships (both real and perceived) between
race, class, gender, and crime. Perception...
Rethinking Our Duties to Strangers: ‘Stranger Things’ and the US Immigration Crisis
Season three of Netflix’s hit show "Stranger Things" releases this week alongside a series of manufactured and fear-mongering crises regarding immigrants, cara...
‘Our’ Idiot President?
“I would like in the first place merely to point out that in the case of performative utterances, saying something stupid amounts to doing something stupid, an...
Is Donald Trump a rhetorical genius?
The Guardian has produced a video explainer featuring Dr. Jennifer Mercieca, managing editor of Citizen Critics, as she explains some of President Trump's most...
Michael Cohen’s verbal somersault
This article originally appeared in The Conversation on February 27, 2019.
Michael Cohen, who admits to lying, also says he’s not a liar.
Can we separate ...
What Can ‘The Favourite’ Tell Us about the Rhetoric of Queer Letters?
With the Academy Awards scheduled for this week, there’s plenty of buzz about “The Favourite.” It tops this year’s nominations (alongside “Roma”) with 10, recei...
One Rhetorician’s Read of Trump’s Second State of the Union
There are eight observations that really stood out to me, a communication scholar of over 40 years, in watching President Trump’s State of the Union address on ...
Citizen Critics Live:
State of the Union
Throughout the 2019 State of the Union, six Citizen Critics brought their unique expertise and perspectives on political rhetoric and oratory. The evening's con...
