culturalstudies

Lawrence Grossberg on retirement, the 14^th draft, mistrust, affect, left and right, cultural studies, modernity, slow thinking, and US politics

You can read about his work here:

https://comm.unc.edu/people/department-faculty/lawrence-grossberg/

 

Fred Turner on the counterculture, Silicon Valley, platform authoritarianism, masculinity, Mary Beth Meehan, and US soldiers in Vietnam

You can read about Fred’s work here:

https://fredturner.stanford.edu/

 

Mehdi Semati on Iran, the media, higher education, and his experience of revolution and war

You can read about his work here:

https://www.niu.edu/clas/comm/contact-us/directory/semati-mehdi.shtml

https://niu.academia.edu/MehdiSemati

 

 

Antonio Lopez on US and Italian politics, Native American cosmology, media literacy, the environment, youth activism, and LA punk

You can read about his work here:

https://ecomedialiteracy.org/

https://www.johncabot.edu/faculty/antonio-lopez

MaryEllen Higgins on adoption and reunion, surfing, colonial trauma, justice, reparations, Frantz Fanon, Ignacio Martín-Baró, Judith Lewis Herman, African cinema, Yamina Bachir, Rachida, Judy Kibinge, being a film producer, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Kivu Ruhorahoza, and JM Coetzee 

You can read about her work here:

https://rockethics.psu.edu/people/maryellen-ellie-higgins/

 

Rolien Hoyng on technological breakdown, populism, Istanbul, Hong Kong, electronic waste, climate crisis, quantification, the circular economy, and ecofeminism

You can read about her work here:

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sociology/people/rolien-hoyng

Mark Banks on the British election, creative/cultural industries, labor, justice, the environment, and popular culture

You can read about his work here:

https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/markbanks/#researchinterests,publications

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/09548963.2024.2344468?needAccess=true

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2022.2058059

Kay Dickinson on colonialism, socialism, the Arab world, secular cinema, labor, tax breaks, offshore filmmaking, and Abba

You can read about Kay’s work here:

https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/kaydickinson/

 

Ingrid Richardson on air-crash investigation, pets, gaming, phenomenology, ethnography, telephony, collaboration, and artificial intelligence

You can read about Ingrid’s work here:

https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/academic-staff/r/richardson-professor-ingrid

Fawzia Afzal-Khan on literary studies, activism, colonialism, Pakistan, women’s rights, Afghanistan, Palestine, Susan Sontag, raga, theater, TE Lawrence, and traveling feminism

You can read about her work here:

https://www.fawziaafzalkhan.com/