Christine Garlough
Biographic Data
| ID | 360398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Garlough |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Garlough |
| SIGNATURE | GARLOUGH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Digital Feminism and Anti-Feminism in Interaction: Relational Dynamics and Hybridization Across Seven Spanish-Speaking Communities on Twitter
This study advances a relational and translocal approach to hybridization through a comparative computational analysis of how feminist and anti-feminist discourses coevolve across seven Spanish-speaking Twitter communities. Drawing on 126,978 tweets from the first year of #MeToo, we use time-series analysis, topic modeling, and cross-national comparison to examine how discourses interact and how national contexts shape thematic trajectories. We i…
‘Think global, act local’: How #MeToo hybridized across borders and platforms for contextual relevance
Beyond a consciousness-raising hashtag, #MeToo has become a transnational movement, crossing the borders of many societies. However, outsized attention has been paid to the manifestations of #MeToo in the US and on Twitter when the reach of this movement was not restricted to a single country, language, or platform. Drawing from the concept of hybridization, we seek to understand how the uses of #MeToo are contextualized across cultures, language…
From Weinstein to Kavanaugh: Shifting coverage of sexual violence and the #MeToo movement across U.S. news media
This study explores the framing strategies and language features of U.S. news coverage surrounding sexual violence and gender issues across the ideological media spectrum at two pivotal phases of the #MeToo movement: (1) during its initial rise as a hashtag-driven social movement in 2017 and (2) during the Kavanaugh nomination and confirmation in 2018. Using structural topic modeling, community detection, and feature extraction, we reveal a heigh…
Complicating Care: Vulnerability re-imagined through performance
Care remains an essential feature of transformative feminist and gender politics—including performance (Hamington & Rosenow, 2019). This article takes as its starting point feminist “ethics of care” scholarship that is grounded in the Cavelian theme of the “vulnerability of ordinary life” (Ferrarese, 2016; Garlough, 2013) and builds on performance studies work engaged by issues of oppression, human rights, and vulnerability (Becker et al., 2021; …
Covering #MeToo across the News Spectrum: Political Accusation and Public Events as Drivers of Press Attention
Garnering coverage across the political spectrum is a major challenge for burgeoning social movements. The #MeToo movement stands out due to the volume of attention it generated. Yet, it is unclear how news media across the partisan spectrum covered the movement using different sexual violence language markers, latent topic, and word choices and which accusations and events drove media attention. To examine this, we used Media Cloud to extract 17…
Whose Lives Matter? Mass Shootings and Social Media Discourses of Sympathy and Policy, 2012–2014
This study focuses on the outpouring of sympathy in response to mass shootings and the contestation over gun policy on Twitter from 2012 to 2014 and relates these discourses to features of mass shooting events. We use two approaches to Twitter text analysis—hashtag grouping and supervised machine learning (ML)—to triangulate an understanding of intensity and duration of “thoughts and prayers,” gun control, and gun rights discourses. We conduct pa…
Refiguring the South Asian American Tradition Bearer: Performing the "Third Gender" in Yoni Ki Baat
In recent years, a growing group of scholars has begun to draw upon queer theory as they research aspects of LGBTQ folk performances and texts from around the globe. In the process, folklore scholars have become increasingly intrigued by bodies that appear to transgress dimorphism, and complicate binary oppositions like male/female. Performances of gender identity and sexuality by hijras in South Asia have awakened audiences' imaginings since the…
Savitri's Stories and Girl Power: Rhetorical Approaches to Feminism(s) in Indian American Ethnic Schools
Scholars in both the disciplines of folklore and rhetoric have shown interest in exploring the connections between social change and storytelling (Bauman). In the discipline of folklore, scholarly conversations concerning such intersections were initiated first by Roger Abrahams (Introductory Remarks) who drew heavily from the work of Kenneth Burke (A Rhetoric of Motives and Language as Symbolic Action), as did many rhetoricians during that perio…
Citizenship, Communication, and Modes of Audience Engagement: Exploring Alternative Voices in the Public Sphere
This chapter explores how citizens in Western and Eastern democracies are transforming communication messages and modalities to provoke audiences to engage in public life. These individuals are using a range of communication strategies and systems, some ancient and others nascent, to add their own voices and their constituents' voices to the public sphere. Reflecting on this orientation, we begin by considering how street theater is used througho…
Gender and Generation in the Social Positioning of Taste
The authors examine the intersection of gender and generation for the field of cultural consumption in the United States, considering their interplay in the social positioning of taste. The authors' prior work found that while cultural capital in the United States largely parallels the field structure observed in 1960s France, the form of cultural capital in the United States discriminates between nurturance and community, on one side, and aggres…
On the Political Uses of Folklore: Performance and Grassroots Feminist Activism in India
This essay explores the use of street theater by grassroots Indian feminist groups to carve out a public forum and to articulate pressing concerns about rape, inheritance law, and women's representation in popular and historical texts. Focusing on a situated performance of a play titled "Women in Search of Their History," I consider the ways that the "virangana," an Indian folk heroine type, and the "garba," a women's folk dance, are appropriated…
Playing with Boundaries: Self and Dialogue in an Indian-American Fatana Performance
For many Indian-American immigrants, answering the question "Who are you?" requires significant negotiation. This inquiry, complicated by the diversity found on the Indian subcontinent, raises issues relating to nationalism and transnationalism and often results in play with identity boundaries. Consequently, in this article I argue for studying immigrants and their experiences through a dialogic framework, expanding upon a Bakhtinian I apply thi…
Transfiguring Criminality: Eclectic Representations of a Female Bandit in Indian Nationalist and Feminist Rhetoric
In this article, I trace appropriations of the Bengali bandit Devi Chaudhurani as she is transfigured within the Indian nationalist novel Devi Chaudhurani and the contemporary feminist street play Meye Dile Sajiye or Giving Away the Girl. These representations are characterized by an eclecticism and a hybridity that treat "the bandit" as a hermeneutical resource for rhetorical invention. Each representation draws its force from the tensions and i…
Whose Lives Matter? Mass Shootings and Social Media Discourses of Sympathy and Policy, 2012–2014
This study focuses on the outpouring of sympathy in response to mass shootings and the contestation over gun policy on Twitter from 2012 to 2014 and relates these discourses to features of mass shooting events. We use two approaches to Twitter text analysis—hashtag grouping and supervised machine learning (ML)—to triangulate an understanding of intensity and duration of “thoughts and prayers,” gun control, and gun rights discourses. We conduct pa…
On the Political Uses of Folklore: Performance and Grassroots Feminist Activism in India
This essay explores the use of street theater by grassroots Indian feminist groups to carve out a public forum and to articulate pressing concerns about rape, inheritance law, and women's representation in popular and historical texts. Focusing on a situated performance of a play titled "Women in Search of Their History," I consider the ways that the "virangana," an Indian folk heroine type, and the "garba," a women's folk dance, are appropriated…
From Weinstein to Kavanaugh: Shifting coverage of sexual violence and the #MeToo movement across U.S. news media
This study explores the framing strategies and language features of U.S. news coverage surrounding sexual violence and gender issues across the ideological media spectrum at two pivotal phases of the #MeToo movement: (1) during its initial rise as a hashtag-driven social movement in 2017 and (2) during the Kavanaugh nomination and confirmation in 2018. Using structural topic modeling, community detection, and feature extraction, we reveal a heigh…
Gender and Generation in the Social Positioning of Taste
The authors examine the intersection of gender and generation for the field of cultural consumption in the United States, considering their interplay in the social positioning of taste. The authors' prior work found that while cultural capital in the United States largely parallels the field structure observed in 1960s France, the form of cultural capital in the United States discriminates between nurturance and community, on one side, and aggres…
Transfiguring Criminality: Eclectic Representations of a Female Bandit in Indian Nationalist and Feminist Rhetoric
In this article, I trace appropriations of the Bengali bandit Devi Chaudhurani as she is transfigured within the Indian nationalist novel Devi Chaudhurani and the contemporary feminist street play Meye Dile Sajiye or Giving Away the Girl. These representations are characterized by an eclecticism and a hybridity that treat "the bandit" as a hermeneutical resource for rhetorical invention. Each representation draws its force from the tensions and i…
Covering #MeToo across the News Spectrum: Political Accusation and Public Events as Drivers of Press Attention
Garnering coverage across the political spectrum is a major challenge for burgeoning social movements. The #MeToo movement stands out due to the volume of attention it generated. Yet, it is unclear how news media across the partisan spectrum covered the movement using different sexual violence language markers, latent topic, and word choices and which accusations and events drove media attention. To examine this, we used Media Cloud to extract 17…
Transfiguring Criminality: Eclectic Representations of a Female Bandit in Indian Nationalist and Feminist Rhetoric
In this article, I trace appropriations of the Bengali bandit Devi Chaudhurani as she is transfigured within the Indian nationalist novel Devi Chaudhurani and the contemporary feminist street play Meye Dile Sajiye or Giving Away the Girl. These representations are characterized by an eclecticism and a hybridity that treat "the bandit" as a hermeneutical resource for rhetorical invention. Each representation draws its force from the tensions and i…
On the Political Uses of Folklore: Performance and Grassroots Feminist Activism in India
This essay explores the use of street theater by grassroots Indian feminist groups to carve out a public forum and to articulate pressing concerns about rape, inheritance law, and women's representation in popular and historical texts. Focusing on a situated performance of a play titled "Women in Search of Their History," I consider the ways that the "virangana," an Indian folk heroine type, and the "garba," a women's folk dance, are appropriated…
Playing with Boundaries: Self and Dialogue in an Indian-American Fatana Performance
For many Indian-American immigrants, answering the question "Who are you?" requires significant negotiation. This inquiry, complicated by the diversity found on the Indian subcontinent, raises issues relating to nationalism and transnationalism and often results in play with identity boundaries. Consequently, in this article I argue for studying immigrants and their experiences through a dialogic framework, expanding upon a Bakhtinian I apply thi…
Citizenship, Communication, and Modes of Audience Engagement: Exploring Alternative Voices in the Public Sphere
This chapter explores how citizens in Western and Eastern democracies are transforming communication messages and modalities to provoke audiences to engage in public life. These individuals are using a range of communication strategies and systems, some ancient and others nascent, to add their own voices and their constituents' voices to the public sphere. Reflecting on this orientation, we begin by considering how street theater is used througho…
Gender and Generation in the Social Positioning of Taste
The authors examine the intersection of gender and generation for the field of cultural consumption in the United States, considering their interplay in the social positioning of taste. The authors' prior work found that while cultural capital in the United States largely parallels the field structure observed in 1960s France, the form of cultural capital in the United States discriminates between nurturance and community, on one side, and aggres…
Savitri's Stories and Girl Power: Rhetorical Approaches to Feminism(s) in Indian American Ethnic Schools
Scholars in both the disciplines of folklore and rhetoric have shown interest in exploring the connections between social change and storytelling (Bauman). In the discipline of folklore, scholarly conversations concerning such intersections were initiated first by Roger Abrahams (Introductory Remarks) who drew heavily from the work of Kenneth Burke (A Rhetoric of Motives and Language as Symbolic Action), as did many rhetoricians during that perio…
Refiguring the South Asian American Tradition Bearer: Performing the "Third Gender" in Yoni Ki Baat
In recent years, a growing group of scholars has begun to draw upon queer theory as they research aspects of LGBTQ folk performances and texts from around the globe. In the process, folklore scholars have become increasingly intrigued by bodies that appear to transgress dimorphism, and complicate binary oppositions like male/female. Performances of gender identity and sexuality by hijras in South Asia have awakened audiences' imaginings since the…
Whose Lives Matter? Mass Shootings and Social Media Discourses of Sympathy and Policy, 2012–2014
This study focuses on the outpouring of sympathy in response to mass shootings and the contestation over gun policy on Twitter from 2012 to 2014 and relates these discourses to features of mass shooting events. We use two approaches to Twitter text analysis—hashtag grouping and supervised machine learning (ML)—to triangulate an understanding of intensity and duration of “thoughts and prayers,” gun control, and gun rights discourses. We conduct pa…
Covering #MeToo across the News Spectrum: Political Accusation and Public Events as Drivers of Press Attention
Garnering coverage across the political spectrum is a major challenge for burgeoning social movements. The #MeToo movement stands out due to the volume of attention it generated. Yet, it is unclear how news media across the partisan spectrum covered the movement using different sexual violence language markers, latent topic, and word choices and which accusations and events drove media attention. To examine this, we used Media Cloud to extract 17…
Complicating Care: Vulnerability re-imagined through performance
Care remains an essential feature of transformative feminist and gender politics—including performance (Hamington & Rosenow, 2019). This article takes as its starting point feminist “ethics of care” scholarship that is grounded in the Cavelian theme of the “vulnerability of ordinary life” (Ferrarese, 2016; Garlough, 2013) and builds on performance studies work engaged by issues of oppression, human rights, and vulnerability (Becker et al., 2021; …
From Weinstein to Kavanaugh: Shifting coverage of sexual violence and the #MeToo movement across U.S. news media
This study explores the framing strategies and language features of U.S. news coverage surrounding sexual violence and gender issues across the ideological media spectrum at two pivotal phases of the #MeToo movement: (1) during its initial rise as a hashtag-driven social movement in 2017 and (2) during the Kavanaugh nomination and confirmation in 2018. Using structural topic modeling, community detection, and feature extraction, we reveal a heigh…
‘Think global, act local’: How #MeToo hybridized across borders and platforms for contextual relevance
Beyond a consciousness-raising hashtag, #MeToo has become a transnational movement, crossing the borders of many societies. However, outsized attention has been paid to the manifestations of #MeToo in the US and on Twitter when the reach of this movement was not restricted to a single country, language, or platform. Drawing from the concept of hybridization, we seek to understand how the uses of #MeToo are contextualized across cultures, language…
Digital Feminism and Anti-Feminism in Interaction: Relational Dynamics and Hybridization Across Seven Spanish-Speaking Communities on Twitter
This study advances a relational and translocal approach to hybridization through a comparative computational analysis of how feminist and anti-feminist discourses coevolve across seven Spanish-speaking Twitter communities. Drawing on 126,978 tweets from the first year of #MeToo, we use time-series analysis, topic modeling, and cross-national comparison to examine how discourses interact and how national contexts shape thematic trajectories. We i…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Art (3 works)