October 3, 2022
In this lecture, Craig Rood, associate professor of English at Iowa State University, explains both the power and problems with the rhetoric used in the gun violence debate. He discusses the dominant narrative of protection and argues that personal stories about gun suicide and domestic gun violence reimagine human character, guns, and moments of gun violence. Rood is author of “After Gun Violence: Deliberation and Memory in an Age of Political Gridlock” (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019).