“At its heart, it’s about what do we know about humanity’s capacity for evil and what should we be afraid of. The answers to those questions can tell us a lot, especially when you look at the intersections of privilege and power, who are telling the stories, who are the subjects of them. I know a lot of people think true crime is a pulp genre, and not worthy of analysis, but the fact that it’s so closely tied to mainstream fixations makes it more worthy. If I can help students to pay attention to those stories and the way they’re presented or received, I’d feel like I’d done my job.”
