Where Everybody Knows You’re Men: NBC’s Cheers & White American Masculinity
When manhood and nation are synonymous women just become a way for men measure patriotism.
“I AM (not) FROM BEYOND!” – Situating Scholarship & the Writing “I”
Our 2018 Year-End Meta Post considers the role of the personal – both identificatory perception and the labor of writing itself – in scholarship.
The (re)Collection Agency #5: A Conversation with Andréa Gilroy
The fifth in our conversations with comics scholars. This time with Dr. Andrea Gilroy, discussing how the tensions between image and text in comics reflect the messiness of identity, and how Ninja Turles and picture bibles might lead to being a comics scholar.
Four-Color Color-Blindness: Black Iron Man
Reed Richards is not so fantastic when it comes to understanding race in America.
The Middle Spaces 