Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Archives
Course Catalog: Decoding — and Fighting — Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy theories have played a role in American culture and politics for decades. In the course “Conspiracy Rhetoric: Power, Politics,…
Cast Your Vote: Who Will Be Bates College’s Next ‘President’?
Since 1999, her first year at Bates, Kelley-Romano has been committed to finding interactive ways for her students to engage…
Maine political scholars see no precedent for divisive, unpredictable presidential race
Stephanie Kelley-Romano, a Bates College professor who teaches a course on presidential campaign
rhetoric, said she’s paying close attention but doesn’t have any idea how things will play out.
From ‘Data Dumping’ to ‘Webbing’: How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Sells Misleading Ideas
Mr. Kennedy tends to “dump a billion studies, footnotes and pieces of evidence in front of us,” said Stephanie Kelley-Romano, a professor of rhetoric at Bates College. “People aren’t fact-checking it, and so it feels true.”
After the Uvalde school shooting, a familiar lie
Professor Stephanie Kelley-Romano cited on conspiracy theories and school shootings in article about why people believe mass shootings are “false…
Great Falls Forum: Battling conspiracy theories is all about listening
Bates professor Stephanie Kelley-Romano talks about conspiracy theories during a Great Falls Forum talk.
Stephanie Kelley-Romano, a Bates College associate professor, is the Feb. 17 speaker at the Great Falls Forum
Bates College professor Stephanie Kelley-Romano will discuss “Conspiracy Theories: Why, How, and What to Do,” in the latest in the…
“Why do mass shootings spawn conspiracy theories?” The Conversation. Michael Rocque & Stephanie Kelly-Romano
While conspiracy theories are not limited to any topic, there is one type of event that seems particularly likely to…
Professor Kelley-Romano quoted in the Lewiston Sun Journal about Vulgarity in Politics
Stephanie Kelley-Romano, associate professor and chair of the rhetoric, film, and screen studies department at Bates College, said Friday that…
Charles Nero and Stephanie Kelley-Romano, faculty speakers at Opening Convocation
The Benjamin E. Mays ’20 Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Charles I. Nero & Associate Professor Stephanie Kelley-Romano…