Article Title

The Writer-of-Violence-as-School-Shooter-Stereotype: How Columbine, Virginia Tech, and Public Fear Make Writing Violence Dangerous for High School and College Students

Authors

Matt Foy, University of Northern Iowa

Document Type

Forum Theme 2

Abstract

This Time Magazine excerpt from “The Legacy of Columbine,” published on March 11, 2001, nearly two years after the infamous attack at Columbine High School, is a chilling reminder of the culture of fear that consumed the United States in the wake of the massacre, at that point the most horrific incident of gun violence in a United States school. The bloody rampage of teenage gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, respectively 18 and 17 years old and both seniors at upper class, mostly white Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, instantly captured the awe, grief and outrage of the public and the commercial news media.

Publication Date

Fall 2009

Journal Title

UNIversitas

Volume

5

Issue

2

First Page

1

Last Page

38

Comments

Celebrating Excellence in Traditional Research in the Humanities: Selections from the Third Annual College of Humanities and Fine Arts Graduate Research Symposium. Each piece of student work is paired with an introduction written by the student's faculty mentor.

Edited by

• Samuel Lyndon Gladden

Selected by

• Tristan Abbott,
• Kenneth Atkinson,
• Betty DeBerg,
• Kevin Droe, and
• JoAnn Schnabel

Copyright

©2009 Matt Foy

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Foy, Matt (2009) "The Writer-of-Violence-as-School-Shooter-Stereotype: How Columbine, Virginia Tech, and Public Fear Make Writing Violence Dangerous for High School and College Students," UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity: Vol. 5: No. 2, Article 11.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/universitas/vol5/iss2/11