Cultural Studies

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

The View from Dover
David Herd on the Dover Immigration Removal Centre.
David HerdMar 3, 2015
- Cultural Studies
The Tao of Angelyne: On Temple Grandin, H. G. Wells, and Being “It”
"Some people look at me and think of a Barbie doll, others see me and think of a porn star. You see me as a rebel because that’s how you think."
Bonnie JohnsonFeb 12, 2015
- Cultural Studies
Incest’s History
Brian ConnollyFeb 11, 2015
- Cultural Studies
After Translation
Michael Leong examines Ignacio Infante's "After Translation: The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic."
Michael LeongFeb 5, 2015
Fabulous!
"It takes guts to write about a serious subject with a sense of humor."
Jonathan ShapiroJan 21, 2015
- Cultural Studies
- Law
Before the Fourth Wall: Reading “New World Drama”
If the theatrical performances of colonial America looked different than those of our own, did they mean something different, too?
Duncan FahertyJan 16, 2015
- Cultural Studies
- Literary Criticism
Humanitarian Intervention at Home
Relating "whether Ferguson demonstrators are mostly marauding looters or merely exercising their freedom of speech" to United States foreign policy.
Hawa AllanJan 7, 2015
- Cultural Studies
G-Men as Literary Critics
"F.B. Eyes" shows the canon of modern black literature to have been powerfully — and dialogically — shaped by Hoover’s ghostreaders.
Gayle RogersJan 7, 2015
- Cultural Studies
Suicidal Thoughts: The Creative Lives and Tragic Deaths of a Prince and a Pauper
Nancy Spiller reacts to the suicides of Les Plesko and Robin Williams.
Nancy SpillerDec 30, 2014
- Cultural Studies
On “The New Republic”
David Bell, a contributing writer and editor at “The New Republic” for over 30 years, considers the implications of its unraveling in an increasingly atomized digital age.
David A. BellDec 29, 2014
- Cultural Studies
The Terror of Colorado Boulevard: Hate, Homicide, and a Holiday Tradition
Behind the scenes of Pasadena's Rose Parade.
Bonnie JohnsonDec 28, 2014
- Cultural Studies
White Christmas and Black December
The #BlackLivesMatter movement, and the deaths that spurred it, should make all of us who celebrate ask: What does Christmas mean this year? And what should it mean?
Briallen HopperDec 23, 2014
- Cultural Studies
- Politics