Lee Pierce
Assistant Professor of Rhetorical Communication, SUNY College at Geneseo
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About Lee
Pierce’s research focuses on rhetoric, race, and popular and political culture in the United States and Canada. Overarching themes in Pierce’s writings include how rhetorical style and language create political and cultural realities. Pierce also serves as a public speaking coach and public intellectual on issues of language.
Contributions
In the News
Interviewed in "Why-Lets-Go-Brandon-Is-More-Than-Just-a-Veiled-Insult," The Washington Post, January 13, 2022.
Opinion: "Aisha’s Broken #BlackGirlMagic in Fate: The Winx Saga," Lee Pierce, Dismantle Magazine, October 11, 2021.
Opinion: "Schadenfreude Over Trump’s COVID-19 Diagnosis Was More About Cosmic Justice Than Joy in Another’s Pain," Lee Pierce, The Conversation, October 14, 2020.
Quoted by Leandra Bernstein in "Trump’s ‘Obamagate’ Tweets Timed To Rally Base Ahead of Close Election," ABC 7 News, May 11, 2020.
Publications
"For the Time(d) Being: The Form Hate Takes in The Hate U Give" Women's Studies in Communication 43, no. 2 (2020): 414-428.
Discusses how norms of Blackness are created visually in the film trailer for The Hate U Give.
"Melancholic Mirages and Ethopoeic Enemies: Reconsidering Temporality in Canada's Apologies to First Peoples " in Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric: Communicating Self-Determination (Frontiers in Political Communication), edited by Casey Ryan Kelly andJason Edward Black (Peter Lang Publishing, 2018), 78-103.
Analyses statements of reconciliation for the Canadian Indian Residential schools and looks at how personification and tense limit the effects of reconciliation discourse.
"A Rhetoric of Traumatic Nationalism in the Ground Zero Mosque Controversy" Quarterly Journal of Speech 100, no. 1 (2014): 53-80.
Explores the strategies used by anti-Islamic groups during the controversy over Cordoba House in Lower Manhattan in 2014