Alyssa Anderson is a fifth year doctoral candidate at Brown University. She is a cultural historian whose work focuses at the nexus of memory, material culture, and performance. Her dissertation, titled “Violence and the Repertoire: Coming of Age in the Age of Mass Shootings,” examines representations of school shootings as they are produced and consumed in the public sphere. Analyzing categories of artifacts such as such as newspapers, literary fiction, and fan-fiction, as well as public ritual such as active shooter drills, it revisits the relationship between memory and medium to highlight currents of fear, disbelief, and uncertainty that sustain re(imaginings) of school shootings in the public imagination.