Joe Edward Hatfield Data-verified

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Researcher

Last publication 2026 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

faculty

5 h-index 29 pubs 70 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Joe Edward Hatfield's research explores the intersection of public memory, digital culture, and identity. His work investigates how individuals and groups construct and preserve memories, particularly concerning marginalized communities. Hatfield's publications examine the role of digital platforms in creating counterpublics and shaping collective memory, as seen in his studies on the #BlackatUARK hashtag and the commemoration of trans lives on social media. He also analyzes the function of museums and monuments in representing public memory, including the Walmart Museum and queer monumentality in the context of augmented reality. Hatfield collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including T. Jake Dionne and Nabiha Khetani. He has authored 26 publications, with an h-index of 4 and 66 total citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 5
  • Publications: 29
  • Citations: 70

Selected Publications

  • Andrew Carnegie and the Rhetorical History of Business and Professional Communication (2026)
  • Negative media: erasure and the limits of retention (2026)
  • Archiving memorial images circulated via social media after the suicide of a trans teenager (2025)
  • Introducing corporate museums to teach public memory and organizational rhetoric (2025)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Book Review: Applied Business Rhetoric TomlinsonE. C. (2024). Applied Business Rhetoric. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 227 pp. (2025)
  • Caring for Public Memories of the Queer South with the Arkansas “Cemetery Angel” (2024)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Style: A Queer Cosmology (2024)
  • Valuing Trans Lives After Suicide: Rituals of Commemoration in Digital Social Media Culture (2024)
    5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Branding public memory in the Walmart Museum (2024)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Black Hauntography as Critical Memory: Visualizing Absent Infrastructures in Virtual Reality (2024)
  • Stonewall forever: queer monumentality in the age of augmented reality (2023)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Forgetting Fulbright: opposing racist public memory at the University of Arkansas (2023)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Moments of shame in the figural history of trans suicide (2022)
    4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Trans* media ecology: The emergence of gender variant selfies in print (2021)
    3 citations DOI OpenAlex

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