Tuesday 25 March 2025 | 18.30-19.30 

The Foyle Room | Free 

“True crime” is a very American genre, and a very American obsession. Evolving from the yellow journalism of press barons like Hearst and Pulitzer, and new forms of literature like Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, true crime has also been central to the rise of new media and technology and new forms of content creation and consumption over the past decade. Podcasting, streaming, and social media would not be what they are today without the American public’s fascination with narrativizing violence, deception, and intrigue involving their fellow citizens. This panel of experts is on the case and will trace the threads that connect everything from Billy the Kid to Luigi Mangione, and from Serial and Making a Murderer to TikTok detectives and the very online, real-time, true crime-style storytelling of the present moment.

With

George Larke-Walsh (University of Sunderland), Lindsay Steenberg (Oxford Brookes University) and Megan Lupton (De Montfort University)