| The rhetoric of exorcism: George W. Bush and the return of political demonology J Gunn Western Journal of Communication (includes Communication Reports) 68 (1), 1-23, 2004 | 128 | 2004 |
| Refiguring fantasy: Imagination and its decline in US rhetorical studies J Gunn Quarterly Journal of Speech 89 (1), 41-59, 2003 | 100 | 2003 |
| Refitting fantasy: Psychoanalysis, subjectivity, and talking to the dead J Gunn Quarterly Journal of Speech 90 (1), 1-23, 2004 | 94 | 2004 |
| Modern occult rhetoric: Mass media and the drama of secrecy in the twentieth century J Gunn University of Alabama Press, 2011 | 87 | 2011 |
| Agentic orientation as magical voluntarism J Gunn, DL Cloud Communication Theory 20 (1), 50-78, 2010 | 85 | 2010 |
| Mourning speech: Haunting and the spectral voices of nine-eleven J Gunn Text and Performance Quarterly 24 (2), 91-114, 2004 | 85 | 2004 |
| Zombie trouble: A propaedeutic on ideological subjectification and the unconscious J Gunn, S Treat Quarterly Journal of Speech 91 (2), 144-174, 2005 | 82 | 2005 |
| On speech and public release J Gunn Rhetoric and Public Affairs 13 (2), 1-41, 2010 | 77 | 2010 |
| Gothic music and the inevitability of genre J Gunn Popular Music & Society 23 (1), 31-50, 1999 | 73 | 1999 |
| Review essay: Mourning humanism, or, the idiom of haunting J Gunn Quarterly Journal of Speech 92 (1), 77-102, 2006 | 70 | 2006 |
| On the apocalyptic sublime J Gunn, DE Beard Southern Journal of Communication 65 (4), 269-286, 2000 | 61 | 2000 |
| Maranatha J Gunn Quarterly Journal of Speech 98 (4), 359-385, 2012 | 58 | 2012 |
| Stick it in your ear: The psychodynamics of iPod enjoyment J Gunn, MM Hall Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 5 (2), 135-157, 2008 | 51 | 2008 |
| Introduction: W (h) ither Ideology? DL Cloud, J Gunn Western Journal of Communication 75 (4), 407-420, 2011 | 45 | 2011 |
| Father trouble: Staging sovereignty in Spielberg's War of the Worlds J Gunn Critical Studies in Media Communication 25 (1), 1-27, 2008 | 45 | 2008 |
| Status control: An admonition concerning the publicized privacy of social networking JM Sloop, J Gunn The Communication Review 13 (4), 289-308, 2010 | 44 | 2010 |
| For the love of rhetoric, with continual reference to Kenny and Dolly J Gunn Quarterly Journal of Speech 94 (2), 131-155, 2008 | 41 | 2008 |
| Shittext: Toward a new coprophilic style J Gunn Text and Performance Quarterly 26 (1), 79-97, 2006 | 40 | 2006 |
| Speech is dead; long live speech J Gunn Quarterly Journal of Speech 94 (3), 343-364, 2008 | 39 | 2008 |
| On political perversion J Gunn Rhetoric Society Quarterly 48 (2), 161-186, 2018 | 38 | 2018 |
