Madeline Studebaker

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Arkansas

Also affiliated: Young Harris College (2023)

Formerly Arkansas Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Arkansas through 2025; now Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin–Madison.

1 h-index 7 pubs 3 cited

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Madeline Studebaker's research examines the intersection of media, public discourse, and social identity. Her work has explored how congressional hearings are presented as public spectacles, and how political figures' rhetoric can reinforce patriarchal ideologies. Studebaker has also investigated the role of social media in archiving and memorializing tragic events, such as the suicide of a transgender teenager, and the appropriation of symbols in political movements. Her scholarship also addresses themes of sexuality, including homonormative purity rhetorics and the complexities of desire and danger within lesbian communities. Additionally, Studebaker has analyzed the use of olfactory arguments in discussions of Black criminality and police brutality, and the relationship between online memes, fascism, and misogyny. She has co-authored publications with A. G. O. Whiteside, Joe Edward Hatfield, and Madison McBride.

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h-index: 1
Publications: 7
Citations: 3

Positions

Graduate Teaching Assistant 2025–present

University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Communication Arts ORCID
Graduate Teaching Assistant 2023–2025

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Department of Communication ORCID

Selected Publications

Archiving memorial images circulated via social media after the suicide of a trans teenager (2025)

International journal of LGBTQ+ youth studies. DOI OpenAlex
Parasitic public memory: #ReclaimTheRainbow and the symbology of conservative victimhood (2025)

Communication Culture and Critique DOI OpenAlex
“I can smell marijuana on you:” olfactory argumentation and Black criminality in cases of police brutality (2024)

Argumentation and Advocacy DOI OpenAlex
Lesbian death: desire and danger between feminist and queer Lesbian death: desire and danger between feminist and queer , by Mairead Sullivan, Minneapolis, MN, University of Minnesota Press, 2022, 204 pp., US $104.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-5179-1013, US $26.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-5179-1020 (2024)

Cultural Studies DOI OpenAlex