Meredith Neville-Shepard
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Assistant Professor
Also affiliated: University of Arkansas System (2021)
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Meredith Neville-Shepard's research investigates the intersection of political rhetoric, media, and social identity. Her work examines how language and imagery in political discourse shape public perception and social dynamics. Recent publications explore themes such as the use of dress codes to discipline student bodies, populist crisis rhetoric in presidential elections, and the relationship between hyper-masculinity and pornographic styles in political communication.
Neville-Shepard also analyzes the construction of conservative movements through symbols like the MAGA hat, and critiques portrayals of feminism and gender dynamics in popular culture, referencing shows like "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Yellowjackets." Her research further delves into the influence of social identity on political candidate evaluation and the phenomenon of parodic hypermimesis in online culture, exemplified by the "Birds Aren't Real" movement. Her scholarship has resulted in 19 publications and 80 citations, with an h-index of 5.
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- h-index: 5
- Publications: 19
- Citations: 81
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Assistant Professor publications 2019–2026University of Arkansas Department of Communication ORCID
Selected Publications
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Networked perversion: fascism, misogyny, and the man versus bear meme (2026)
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The postmortem enthymeme: Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-immolation as argumentation (2026)
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Political knowledge is political power: gendered political elaboration and inequitable debate learning outcomes (2026)
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<i>Barbie</i> Girl in a MAGA World: Kamala Harris and the Curse of Impossible Womanhood (2025)
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Gore empowerment: patriarchal appetites and white feminist delights in Showtime’s <i>Yellowjackets</i> (2024)
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Uniform choices: elastic feminism and rhetoric surrounding the 2020 Olympic “pantywar” (2024)
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“Better never means better for everyone”: White feminist necropolitics and Hulu's <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i> (2022)
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The pornified presidency: hyper-masculinity and the pornographic style in U.S. political rhetoric (2020)
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Disciplining the Female Student Body: Consequential Transference in Arguments for School Dress Codes (2019)
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- The pornified presidency: hyper-masculinity and the pornographic style in U.S. political rhetoric
- <i>Barbie</i> Girl in a MAGA World: Kamala Harris and the Curse of Impossible Womanhood
- Political knowledge is political power: gendered political elaboration and inequitable debate learning outcomes
- Networked perversion: fascism, misogyny, and the man versus bear meme
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