Madeline Studebaker

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University of Arkansas

Also affiliated: Young Harris College (2023)

Graduate Student Researcher

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, with a particular focus on how marginalized communities are represented and how their experiences are archived and interpreted.

Her work investigates the performative aspects of political communication, such as congressional committee hearings, and analyzes the rhetoric used in online spaces to discuss political figures and social movements. Studebaker has published on the archiving of memorial images related to the suicide of a transgender teenager and the appropriation of LGBTQ+ symbology by conservative groups, exploring themes of public memory and victimhood.

Additionally, her scholarship addresses the role of olfactory argumentation in discussions of Black criminality and police brutality, and she has contributed to scholarship on lesbian identity within feminist and queer theory. Studebaker collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including A. G. Whiteside, Joe Edward Hatfield, and Madison McBride.

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h-index: 1
Publications: 7
Citations: 3

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 <b>Lesbian death: desire and danger between feminist and queer</b> , 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