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Associate Professor, Critical Communication and Media Studies

Kristen Hoerl is an Associate Professor at the College of Communication at Butler
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Kristen Hoerl is an Associate Professor at the College of Communication at Butler
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August 2009 - Present	Associate Professor, Butler University ‐ Department of Critical Communication and Media Studies
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Rhetorical Criticism, Critical Media Studies, Gender & Feminism, Public Memories of 1960s Social Protest, and Civil Rights and Critical Race Theory

Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Kappa Phi
Lambda Pi Eta (National Communication Honor Society)
Phi Alpha Theta

College of Communication

College of Communication
Butler University, FC 252
4600 Sunset Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46208

Articles (14)

Shaved or Saved? Disciplining Women’s Bodies

Women’s Studies in Communication (2015)

Casey R. Kelly and Kristen Hoerl

Proponents of sexual liberation and abstinence-until-marriage advocates appear to be on opposing ends of the sociopolitical spectrum; however, both are ...

Genesis in Hyperreality: Legitimizing Disingenuous Controversy at the Creation Museum

Argumentation and Advocacy (2012)

Casey R. Kelly and Kristen Hoerl

This essay analyzes the argumentative structure of the "Answers in Genesis" ministry's Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky. Founded by a ...

Selective Amnesia and Racial Transcendence in News Coverage of President ...

Quarterly Journal of Speech (2012)

The mainstream press frequently characterized the election of President Barack Obama the first African American US President as the realization ...

Depoliticizing Pregnancy and the Post-Nuclear Family in Juno, Knocked Up ...

Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (2010)

Kristen Hoerl and Casey R. Kelly

This essay explores three films from 2007, Knocked Up, Juno, and Waitress, which foreground young women's unplanned pregnancies. These movies ...

The Post-Nuclear Family and the Depoliticization of Unplanned Pregnancy in ...

Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (2010)

Kristen Hoerl and Casey R. Kelly

This essay explores three films from 2007, Knocked Up, Juno, and Waitress, which foreground young women's unplanned pregnancies. These movies ...

Burning Mississippi into Memory? Cinematic Amnesia as a Resource for ...

Critical Studies in Media Communication (2009)

The 1988 film Mississippi Burning drew extensive criticism for its misleading portrayal of the FBI’s investigation of three murdered civil ...

Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims’ Trauma in Television ...

The Communication Review (2009)

On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd at Kent State University and killed four students. ...

Deranged Loners and Demented Outsiders? Therapeutic News Frames of Presidential ...

Communication, Culture & Critique (2009)

Kristen Hoerl, D. L. Cloud and S. E. Jarvis

There were 7 assassination attempts on U.S. presidents between 1973 and 2001. In this article, we critically examine coverage of ...

Cinematic Jujitsu: Resisting White Hegemony through the American Dream in ...

Communication Studies (2008)

Spike Lee’s film Malcolm X (1992) presented Malcolm X’s life story using the narrative framework of the American Dream myth ...

Mississippi’s Social Transformation in Public Memories of the Trial ...

Western Journal of Communication (2008)

In 1994, Byron de la Beckwith was convicted for the 1963 murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers. Journalism coverage ...

Mario Van Peebles’s Panther and Popular Memories of the ...

Critical Studies in Media Communication (2007)

The 1995 movie Panther depicted the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense as a vibrant but ultimately doomed social movement for ...

Public Argument as Self-Preservation: A Critique of Argumentation Theory as ...

Critical problems in argumentation : selected papers from the 13th Biennial Conference on Argumentation (2003)

The article presents a critical analysis on the argumentation theory of self-preservation as a democratic practice in the U.S. It ...

Monstrous youth in suburbia: Disruption and recovery of the American ...

Southern Communication Journal (2002)

Although the American Dream myth idealizes youth who grow up in suburbia as culturetypes of imminent success, the Columbine High ...

Pain and Public Deliberation: Citizens, Victims, Advocates, Activists.

Critical problems in argumentation : selected papers from the 12th Biennial Conference on Argumentation (2001)

This paper revisits the limits and possibilities for the idealsof participatory democracy in the contemporary United States by examiningnews media ...

Contribution to Book

Remembering Radical Black Dissent: Traumatic Counter-Memories in Contemporary Documentaries about ...

Race and Hegemonic Struggle: Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest (2014)

Contemporary rhetoric about race and racism has been shaped, in part, by popular films. Since the late 1980s and 1990s, ...

Contribution to Book

Remembering and Forgetting Black Power in Mississippi Burning

Uncovering Hidden Rhetorics: Social Issues in Disguise (2008)

Contribution to Book

Representing Byron de la Beckwith in Film and Journalism: Popular ...

Rhetorical Agendas: Political, Ethical, Spiritual (Selected papers from the 2004 Rhetoric Society of America Conference (2004)

On June 12 1963, NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers was shot to death in front of his home in Jackson, ...

Analyzing the Visual and Discursive Rhetoric of the Creation Museum

Spotlight panel of the Central States Communication Association annual meeting (2010)

Burning Mississippi into Memory: Parker’s Mississippi Burning and the ...

Competitive paper presented to the National Communication Association annual convention, Critical and Cultural Studies Division. (2006)

The rhetoric of objectivity in the documentaries Berkeley in the ...

Competitive paper presented to the National Communication Association annual convention, Mass Communication Division (2006)