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 intersections of media, culture, and political identity. Her work examines how popular culture, including television programs and political rhetoric, shapes understandings of social issues and group affiliation. Neville-Shepard has published on topics such as populist crisis rhetoric, the symbolism of political attire like the MAGA hat, and the portrayal of gender and victimhood in media narratives. Her scholarship also explores the influence of social identity on political candidate evaluation and the dynamics of political knowledge acquisition across gender lines.
Her research has been featured in numerous academic publications. Neville-Shepard's scholarly output includes work on themes of white feminist necropolitics, patriarchal appetites in popular media, and the parodic nature of online movements. She has collaborated with fellow researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville on several projects. Her academic contributions are reflected in her h-index of 5 and over 75 citations.
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- h-index: 5
- Publications: 19
- Citations: 77
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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- <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
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