Kristen Hoerl
Associate Professor, Rhetoric and Public Culture Communication Studies

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Dr. Kristen Hoerl authored the 2018 monograph The Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements and numerous journal articles. She also served as the editor of Women’s Studies in Communication from 2017-2019.

Representative Publications

Hoerl, K. (2018). The Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements. Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi.

Hoerl, K. (in press.) The Impossible Woman and Sexist Realism on NBC's Parks and Recreation. Quarterly Journal of Speech.

Hoerl, K. & Kelly, C. R. (2021.) Embodied abject play: Women "sex comics" and abject feminism. Text and Performance Quarterly, 41/1-2, 123-139.

Johnson, J. & Hoerl, K. (2020). "Suppressing Black Power through Black Panther's Neocolonial Allegory," Spec. issue on Disney/Marvel's Black Panther. The Review of Communication, 20(3), 269-277.

Hoerl, K. (2012). "Selective amnesia and racial transcendence in news coverage of President Obama's inauguration." Quarterly Journal of Speech, 98, 178-202.

 

Teaching

COMM 850: Seminar in Gender and Communication

COMM 950D