Search UT

Education

2010 Central College, B.A.
2012 London Metropolitan University, M.A.
2020 Iowa State University, Ph.D.

View CV

Courses Taught

Scriptwriting (Intro to Visual Storytelling)
Writing for Interactive Media

Career Specialties

Lauren Malone specializes in digital rhetoric and pop culture studies, specifically the intersections of race, sexuality, and gender and how they influence various online communities.

Professional and Community Activities

Malone's dissertation focused on how queer people of color (QPoC) engage with pop culture spaces online. The results, including strategic engagement, curation of community artifacts and news, and community-building strategies, were then applied to pedagogical questions in order to build a framework for anti-oppressive digital rhetoric curriculum.

Malone's current research investigates hashtags and extended Twitter threads as forms of digital folklore.

Honors and Awards

Robert A. Miller CEA Memorial Prize for Best Article in the CEA Critic (2019)