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...
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,...
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,...
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...
Trump’s Rhetorical Stonewalling Strategy
President Donald J. Trump and members of his administration are stonewalling on the issue of the Mueller report...
‘Our’ Idiot President?
“I would like in the first place merely to point out that in the case of performative utterances,...
Is Donald Trump a rhetorical genius?
The Guardian has produced a video explainer featuring Dr. Jennifer Mercieca, managing editor of Citizen Critics, as she...
You Might Think It’s Okay, But I Don’t
Tracing Symploce in Democrats’ Response to the Mueller Report “My colleagues might think it’s OK that the Russians...
“Where Is This Coming From?” Beto O’Rourke’s Divine Inspiration
During the interview with Vanity Fair that launched his 2020 presidential campaign, Representative Beto O’Rourke described speaking at...
President [Noselaugh] Trump and the Question of Character
“It’s demoralizing. It’s unfair.” Jan. 28, 2019, was her first day back at work in five weeks, yet...