Graeme's research focuses on the visual representation of race and gender roles in popular narrative media. He has presented research essays at the following academic conferences:
• CSCA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL (April 2020)
o “Bad Hombres” and Latinos as Other in Breaking Bad
o “I Want To Be Free”: Women’s Revolution in HBO’s Westworld
o “We Can Save This Community”: Black Lightning and the Invisible Superstructure of
Oppression
• CSCA Annual Conference, Omaha, NE (April 2019)
o “When The Gunfire Ends”: Deconstructing PTSD Among Combat Veterans in Marvel’s The
Punisher
• NCA Annual Convention, Salt Lake City, UT (November 2018)
o “They See a Caricature”: Expanding Media Representations of Black Identity in Dear
White People
• PCA/ACA National Conference, Indianapolis, IN (April 2018)
o “None of You Cared Enough”: The Problematic Moralizing of 13 Reasons Why
• NCA Annual Convention, Dallas, TX (November 2017)
o “A Demented Declaration of Love”: The Deconstruction of Rape Culture in Marvel's
Jessica Jones*
o “Harlem’s Captain America”: Identifying Politics of Respectability in Marvel’s Luke Cage
o “Not the Right People”: The Influence of Scapegoat Narratives in Donald J. Trump’s
Campaign Rhetoric
• BEA Annual Convention, Las Vegas, NV (April 2017)
o “A Man Must Have a Code”: A Contrast of Black and White Masculinity in The Wire*
o “Woman Inherits the Earth”: Deconstructing Jurassic Park as an Early Text in Third-Wave
Feminism*
o Evolution of the Modern American Antihero: The Shield as Template for Breaking Bad
• PCA/ACA National Conference, San Diego, CA (April 2017)
o “I Am Not Your Property”: The Progressive Feminism of Orphan Black
• Midwest PCA/ACA Regional Conference, Chicago, IL (October 2016)
o “What’s the Difference Between Men and Women?”: Hegemonic Masculinity in The
Walking Dead
• PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, LA (April 2015)
o A Bastard from the Beginning: The Moral Agency of Breaking Bad’s Walter White
* denotes award-winning essay.