Meredith Neville-Shepard Data-verified
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Meredith Neville-Shepard's research investigates the intersection of rhetoric, identity, and contemporary political and cultural phenomena. Her work examines how communication strategies, particularly within populist movements and media, shape public perception and discourse. Neville-Shepard has published on topics including the rhetoric surrounding the 2020 presidential election, the symbolism of the MAGA hat, and representations of gender and power in popular television series such as "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Yellowjackets."
Her scholarship also explores the complexities of "white feminist" perspectives and their engagement with issues of victimhood and empowerment. Recent publications have analyzed the rhetorical construction of "impossible womanhood" in relation to political figures like Kamala Harris and the parodic nature of internet-based cultural movements like "Birds Aren't Real." Neville-Shepard's research is supported by her academic network, with shared publications with collaborators Ryan Shepard and Dani B. Jackson at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
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- h-index: 5
- Publications: 17
- Citations: 73
Selected Publications
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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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- Outfitting the Conservative Civil Rights Movement: Rehearsed White Victimhood and the MAGA Hat
- Conspiracy Theatre of the Absurd: “Birds Aren’t Real” as Parodic Hypermimesis
- Partisan and/or Gender Homophily: The Influence of Social Identity-Based Elaboration on Political Candidate Evaluation
- Partisan and/or Gender Homophily: The Influence of Social Identity-Based Elaboration on Political Candidate Evaluation
- <i>Barbie</i> Girl in a MAGA World: Kamala Harris and the Curse of Impossible Womanhood
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