Scholarly/Creative Works

• Rooney, D., & Muller, S. M. (2024). Woke Sausages at the Cracker Barrel: Gastronativism and the Synecdochic Politics of Plant-based Meat. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 26(3), 1–24.
• Muller, S. M. (2024). Violence Begets Violence: Cross-Species Animalization in the Slaughterhouse. In Building Multispecies Resistance against Exploitation. New York, NY, USA: Peter Lang Publishing. Retrieved from https://www.peterlang.com/document/1359054
• Muller, S. M. (2024). Fantastical Speeches: Composing Fanfiction to Model Protest Communication. Communication Teacher, 38(3), 229–234. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/17404622.2024.2328601
• Muller, S. M., Rooney, D., & Cerja, C. (2024). Long Live the Liver King: Right Wing Carnivorism and the Digital Dissemination of Primal Rhetoric. Frontiers in Communication. Retrieved from https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1338653/full

• Muller, S. M. (2023). Dairy Pride: Hypocognitive Rhetoric and the Battle for Dairy’s Name. Environmental Communication, 17(8), 975–990.

• Muller, S. M. (2022). Got Autism? PETA and the Rhetoric of Eco-Ableism. In Vegans on speciesism and ableism: Ecoability voices for disability and animal justice. New York, NY, USA: Peter Lang.
• Muller, S. M. (2022). Monkey Business in a Kangaroo Court: Reimagining Naruto v Slater as a Litigious Event. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 25(1), 31–59.

• Muller, S. M., & McNeill, Z. (2021). Toppling the Temple of Grandin: Autistic-Animal Analogies and the Ableist-Speciesist Nexus. Rhetoric, Society & Culture, 1(2), 195–225.
• Muller, S. M. (2021). Carnistic Colonialism: A Rhetorical Dissection of Bushmeat During the 2014 Ebola Outbreak. Frontiers in Communication, (6), 656431.
• Muller, S. M. (2021). Archival Mocking As Feminist Praxis: A Rhetorical Repurposing of A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes. Women’s Studies in Communication, 44(1), 23–43.
• Muller, S. M. (2021). Companion Cyborgs: Untethering Discourses About Wolf-Hybrids. Environmental Communication, 99–114.
• Muller, S. M. (2021). Personal affairs: Litigating nonhuman animal personhood in the Anthropocene. In Intimate Relations: Communicating in the Anthropocene. New York, NY, USA: Lexington Press.
• Muller, S. M. (2021). Living material: European and human supremacy in ivory exhibitions. In Terrible beauty: Elephant – human – ivory (pp. 178–186). Germany: Hirmer Publishing.

• Muller, S. M. (2020). Impersonating Animals: Rhetoric, Ecofeminism, and Animal Rights Law. East Lansing, MI, USA: Michigan State University Press.

• Hasian, M., & Muller, S. M. (2019). Decolonizing conservationist hero narratives: a critical genealogy of William T. Hornaday and colonial conservation rhetorics. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 27(4), 284–296.

• Hasian, M., & Muller, S. M. (2018). Triumphal Whiteness and the coloring of terror in twenty-first century counterterrorist rhetorics. In Interrogating the Communicative Power of Whiteness. New York, NY, USA: Routledge.
• Muller, S. M. (2018). Zombification, social death, and the slaughterhouse: US industrial practices of livestock slaughter. American Studies, 57(3), 81–101.
• Hasian, M., & Muller, S. M. (2018). Whose souls shall haunt us? competing genocidal memoryscapes and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s selective colonial memorializations. In Rhetorics haunting the National Mall: Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories (pp. 152–174). USA: Lexington Press.

• Hasian, M., & Muller, S. M. (2017). Containing the Power of Child Migrant Imagery, the Domestication of Alan Kurdi’s Public Memories, and the Securitization of the EU’s Migrant “Crisis.” In Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Migrants: Seen But Not Heard. New York, NY, USA: Lexington Books.
• Muller, S. M. (2017). For the good of the species: Gary Francione and the omnipresence of eugenics in animal rights rhetoric. Communication Studies, 68(5), 588–606.
• Muller, S. M. (2017). Elephant Tracings: A Critical Animal/Postcolonial Genealogy of the Royal Museum for Central Africa. Journal for Critical Animal Studies, 14(2), 5–41.
• Hasian, M., Maldonado, A., & Muller, S. M. (2017). Democratic Dissent and the Politics of Rescue during the Twenty-first Century’s “Inhospitable” EU Migration “Crisis.” Javnost - The Public, 24(3), 251–266.

• Hasian, M., & Muller, S. M. (2016). Post-conflict peace initiatives, British Mau Mau compensation, and the mastering of colonial pasts. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 11(2), 164–180.