culturalstudies

Lúcia Nagib on de-centering humans, animal film, Brazilian culture, tropicália, world cinema, realism, representation, presentation, and artificial intelligence and research You can read about her work here: https://www.reading.ac.uk/film-theatre-television/staff/professor-lucia-nagib https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGVAYRlcBNA https://research.reading.ac.uk/intermidia/

Larissa Buchholz on the commodification of art, growing up in East Germany, Christa Wolf, the sociology of art, and Pierre Bourdieu You can read about her work here: https://larissabuchholz.soc.northwestern.edu/ https://www.textezurkunst.de/de/articles/why-i-speak-global-art-field-and-not-global-art-world/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304422X17300657?casa_token=KF2IRFG7tAgAAAAA:E6__jvkhbFywJmXZPBneIl1ASZnE9BMSHv_UL_6QeeEYbGrpeLbFuOECuRNVyNWZVyOivfkx https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/2059-7932.12001 https://www.academia.edu/114806779/What_can_global_field_theory_offer_global_and_transnational_sociology

Todd McGowan on right-wing populism, capitalism’s death spiral, psychoanalysis, desire, Lacan, identification, identity, universality, and Hegel and Marx You can read about Todd’s work here: https://www.uvm.edu/cas/english/profiles/todd-mcgowan https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOMku8U1zFKsBudd3BcgSAw https://soundcloud.com/whytheory

Ted Striphas on the success/decline of cultural studies, print culture, the book industry, and algorithms You can read about Ted’s work here: https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/college-leadership/ted-striphas

Anthony Nocella on dismantling visible and invisible barriers, education beyond the classroom, hip hop, lowriders, anarchism, activism, animal liberation, and consumption You can read about Anthony’s work and interests here: https://www.anthonynocella.org/ https://houstonfoodnotbombs.org/ https://foodnotbombs.net/new_site/ https://animalliberationfrontline.com/ https://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/about/ https://savethekidsgroup.org/ https://transformativejusticejournal.org/ https://peacestudiesjournal.org/

Andy Opel on a Tallahassee tornado, climate grifters, Appalachian oystermen, climate witnesses, unseen forces, environmental communication, children’s books, video virtuality, and micro radio You can read about Andy’s work and interests here: https://www.andyopel.net/ https://wordofsouthfestival.com/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p093wp6h/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/303536/believing-is-seeing-by-errol-morris/ https://www.rutgerbregman.com/

Tony Kashani and Joe Cronin on the humanities, administrative-capitalist priorities, DuBois, Washington, activism, Tagore, Dewey, and critical thought You can read about them here: https://tonykashani.com/ https://www.antioch.edu/faculty/joseph-cronin/ https://www.joecroninart.com/about

Alicia Dara on women thriving professionally, patriarchal employment, speech skills for women executives, perimenopausal social issues, the right to choose, women’s power, music, Womancake magazine, intergenerational feminism, and golf weekends You can read about Alicia’s work and interests here: https://www.aliciadara.com/ https://www.womancake.com/about https://shoutyourabortion.com/ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/business/women-sexism-work-huffington-kamala-harris.html https://abortionfunds.org/ https://www.plannedparenthood.org/ https://www.sistersong.net/ https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/ https://www.plannedparenthood.org/get-care/our-services

Marwan Kraidy on swimming, the Arab world, Turkish and reality TV, the Arab Spring, Lebanon, and experience and heterodoxy impelling research You can read about Marwan’s work here: https://communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/marwan-kraidy.html

Lisa Henderson on encampments, room to move, being a Dean during a pandemic, autocracy, queerness and class, pedagogy, ethnography, the avant garde, Canada, indigenous issues, and language politics You can read about Lisa’s work here: https://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/profiles/lisa_henderson.html

Mary Beltrán on democracy, student protests, Orange is the New Black, Latin@ screen representation, Paul Rodríguez, Freddie Prinze Sr, and Tanya Saracho You can read about her work and interests here: https://moody.utexas.edu/faculty/mary-beltran https://untitledlatinxproject.com/ https://www.nalip.org/ https://remezcla.com/ https://latinheat.com/ https://blcklst.com/programs/2024-latine-list https://nyupress.org/9781479868650/latino-tv/ https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p076510

Tom Streeter on authoritarian populism, the media, capitalist technological hype, regulation, Canadian trucker protests, Romanticism, and law and the iPhone You can read about Tom’s work here: https://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/profiles/tom_streeter.html https://streeter.fims.uwo.ca/

Sharon Strover on curtailing and surveilling campus protest and free speech, artificial intelligence, privacy, inequality, the rural, the Federal Communications Commission, net neutrality, and qualitative and quantitative approaches You can read about her work here: https://journalism.utexas.edu/faculty/sharon-strover

Tiffany Miller on reproductive justice and Maya culture and language You can read about Tiffany’s work here: http://tiffanycreeganmiller.weebly.com/ https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/tiffany-miller/

George Marcus on critical cultural theory, multi-sited ethnography, and elites You can read about George’s work here: https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/georgemarcus/

Mia Mask on the cowboy and popular imagination, the Black Western, horses, landscape, slavery, reparations, Black modernity, Sidney Poitier, sports to Hollywood, Black women stars, and Black cinema You can follow Mia’s work here: https://www.vassar.edu/faculty/mimask https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-lFIZai8fQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgBI-erfEV4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRXcwAYWJfc https://vimeo.com/872715263/df18f62b92?share=copy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DtVwwjEl4A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGmGm_cPIa4

Morris Nguyen on sepsis, augmented intelligence, stigmas, language, OpenDx, Predicate, and life as a medical doctor You can read about the work of Predicate here: https://www.predicatehpg.com/ https://riot.org/startup-spotlight-predicate/

Joel Westheimer on democracy, authoritarianism, inequality, educational standardization and testing, citizenship, the US, and Canada You can read about Joel’s work here: https://www.joelwestheimer.org/

Daya Thussu on international relations, China, and India You can read about Daya here: https://jour.hkbu.edu.hk/faculty-member/daya-thussu/

Lisa Funnell on not thinking, audio books, James Bond, Michelle Yeoh, Chinese warrior women, #MeToo, and feminism You can read about Lisa’s work here: https://lisafunnell.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-lisa-funnell-12965b17_worlddesignday-hamont-mohawkcollege-activity-7190710202717859841-WCzN/

Graham Meikle on social media, deep fakes, the internet of things, and social movements You can read about Graham's work here: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/meikle-graham

Richard Allen on Arabian Nights, Indian stories and films, Muslim influences, double identities, oral traditions, Alfred Hitchcock, psychoanalytic film theory, analytic philosophy, and ukiyo-e prints You can read about Richard here: https://www.scm.cityu.edu.hk/people/allen-richard-william

Daniel Fisher on indigenous Australians, the Northern Territory, fire, country music, radio, and media ethnography You can read about his work here: https://anthropology.berkeley.edu/daniel-fisher

Heather Ashley Hayes on rhetoric, violence, the ‘war on terror,' cartography, Martin Luther King internationally, civil rights, and The Teach Out You can read about her work here: https://www.heatherashleyhayes.com/ https://www.theteachout.com/

Stuart Cunningham on semi-enforced semi-retirement, the relevance of research, cultural criticism and policy, creative industries, Griffith University, the humanities, grad school, Sylvia Plath, Frederick Wiseman, Charles Chauvel, writing poetry, innovation, René Girard, and Joseph Schumpeter You can read about Stuart’s work here: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/s.cunningham

Juan Cole on Gaza, white nationalism, US foreign policy, Israeli colonialism, 19th-century European nationalism, race, the Quran, peace studies and Islam, public intellectuals, and area studies You can read about Juan’s work here: https://www.juancole.com/ https://lsa.umich.edu/history/people/faculty/jrcole.html https://tomdispatch.com/authors/juancole/

Phaedra Pezzullo on plastics and crisis, impure politics, toxic tourism, climate justice, colonialism, conjunctural analysis, and gender You can read about Phaedra’s work and interests here: https://phaedracpezzullo.com/ https://www.stopformosa.org/ https://twitter.com/ecorethink?lang=en

Jo Caust on local political funding of sports, arts funding, cultural policy, creative industries, cultural work, management, gender, and ethnicity You can read about Jo’s work here: https://jocaustarts.com/ https://www.routledge.com/Art-and-Politics-Government-and-the-Arts-in-Australia-A-Historical-and-Critical-Analysis/Caust/p/book/9781032040721

Karen Lee Ashcraft on the global rise of the far right and the role of gender, aggrieved manhood, affect, communication, organization, work, race, trans issues, evangelical families You can read about her work here: https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/communication/karen-ashcraft

Gabriella Coleman on x/Twitter, Palestine, US politics, group chats, hacking, Anonymous, WikiLeaks, and ethnography You can read about her work here: https://gabriellacoleman.org/ https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/gabriella-coleman

Jara Fernández Meneses sobre el cine Español, las políticas fílmicas y genero, el intento de crear un nuevo cine post-dictadura, los lenguajes nacionales, y la exportación Se puede leer sobre su obra aquí: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/629p5t/doctor-jara-fernandez-meneses

John Quiggin on the threat of US dictatorship, the end of neoliberalism, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, financial markets, privatization, economics, Australia, the environment and technology, the state, the positive future, and cultural struggles You can read about John’s work here: https://substack.com/@jquiggin

Wendy Su on China and the US, Chinese youth culture,  nationalism,  interviewing as a journalist versus scholar, China and Hollywood, co-production, US racism, and cultural studies You can read about Wendy’s work here: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/wendysu

Kelly Gates on artificial intelligence, data centers, drone photography, facial recognition, communications and energy and water use, police video, media forensics, and personal history You can read about Kelly’s work here: https://communication.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/gates-kelly.html

Ned Randolph on Louisiana petro-politics, the environment, New Orleans, the Mississippi River, mud and capitalist extraction, and grassroots movements You can read about his work and interests here: https://www.nedrandolph.net/ https://www.ucpress.edu/search.php?q=Ned+Randolph#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=Ned%20Randolph&gsc.page=1 https://labucketbrigade.org/

Ruth Rentschler on artistic diversity, inclusion, disability, marketing, management, and funding You can read about Ruth’s work here: https://people.unisa.edu.au/Ruth.Rentschler https://www.facebook.com/connect2abilities/

Helen Lenskyj and Ali Greey on writing, justice in sports, trans athletes, epistemic justice, health, science, anti-trans activism, ethnography, dialog, and boxing You can learn about their work here: https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781802629859 https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/978-1-80262-985-920221001/full/html https://spknmedia.podbean.com/e/sl-lenskyj-greey/ https://helenlenskyj.ca/ https://www.aligreey.com/

Nicole Archer on the upcoming US elections, right-wing material culture, textile and needle labor, fast fashion, gender, race, consumption, art history, institutional aura, and flags versus banners You can read about Nicole’s interests here: https://www.narcher.com/ https://garmentworkercenter.org/ https://artjournal.collegeart.org/ https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20201208STO93327/the-impact-of-textile-production-and-waste-on-the-environment-infographics https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1922-1985-rudi-gernreich/

Barbara Browning on ficto-criticism, Caetano Veloso, The Miniaturists, linked short stories, Covid-19, war, environment, Clarice Lispector, raising quail, the body, dance, and Randy Martin You can read about Barbara’s work here: https://tisch.nyu.edu/about/directory/performance-studies/3015339 https://www.youtube.com/@barbarabrowning https://barbarabrowning.info/

Mark Deuze on the wellbeing of media workers and Faculty, journalism, precarity, Skinflower, Denis McQuail, and labor You can read about Mark’s work here: https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/d/e/m.j.p.deuze/m.j.p.deuze.html?cb https://skinflower.bandcamp.com/

Ian Hunter on philosophy and history, Kant, religion, cultural studies, Foucault, EP Thompson, Rawls, terrorism, colonialism, and reason You can read about Ian here: https://iash.uq.edu.au/profile/151/ian-hunter https://www.uni-erfurt.de/max-weber-kolleg/forschung/forschungsgruppen-und-stellen/forschungsstellen/forschungsstelle-fuer-fruehneuzeitliches-naturrecht/natural-law-1625-1850

Lilith Mahmud on Italy, immigration, liberalism, freemasonry, the Mediterranean, the EU, whiteness, Berlusconi, Meloni, fascism, Libya, Eritrea, slavery, energy, citizenship, and gender and anthropology You can read about her interests here: https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=5546 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mg_AiPGw-0

Judith Levine on COVID-19, poverty, US welfare, the Great Society, and higher education You can read about her work here: https://liberalarts.temple.edu/academics/faculty/levine-judith https://liberalarts.temple.edu/ppl

Carolina Bandinelli on hybridized writing, Italian-English, Umberto Eco, creative work, entrepreneurialism, small fashion businesses, sustainability, and digital love and sex You can read about her work here: https://carolinabandinelli.com/

Dennis Broe on film noir, Maverick, television, his detective novels, and Los Angeles You can read about Dennis here: https://www.peoplesworld.org/authors/dennis-broe/ https://dennisbroe.substack.com/ https://www.laprogressive.com/author/dennis-broe https://dennisbroe.substack.com/p/i-fought-the-law-new-podcast-on-the https://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/DennisBroe/text.html

David Pellow on Academics for Justice in Palestine, environmental justice, electronic toxicity, social movements, workers, garbage in Chicago, environmental colonialism, diverse activism, immigrants, and prisons You can read about his work and concerns here: https://es.ucsb.edu/david-n-pellow https://icrt.co/ https://www.cccjn.org/

Kerrie Foxwell-Norton on coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef, communications and anthropocentrism, research priorities, gender, and the urgency of action You can read about her work here: https://experts.griffith.edu.au/7251-kerrie-foxwellnorton

Bruce Robbins on Gaza, atrocity, Columbia University, Social Text, Jewish activism, Thomas Mann, Raymond Williams, Matthew Arnold, Alexander Kluge, Edward Said, and cosmopolitanism You can read about Bruce’s work here: https://english.columbia.edu/content/bruce-robbins

Sivamohan Valluvan on international right-wing hegemony, nationalism, post-colonialism, pubs, Brexit, diversity, class, race, immigration, Sri Lanka, Sweden, and populism You can read more about his work here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/valluvan/

Jonathan Portes on immigration, Brexit, xenophobia and racist sentiment and policies, health, education, civil service, and the UK economy You can read about Jonathan here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/professor-jonathan-portes https://ukandeu.ac.uk/

Annika Speer on artificial intelligence’s influence on storytelling, public speaking, and embodied performance, science communication, pro-choice activism, realism and alienation, contemporary theater, and dramaturgy You can read about Annika here: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/annika https://psi.ucr.edu/people

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Amy Brady on mapping, the history of ice in US culture, Orion magazine, the environment, and Topeka You can read about Amy here: https://amybradywrites.com/ https://www.orionmagazine.org/

Lauren Levitt, Elizabeth Dayton, and Ayanna Dozier on sex-worker art, autobiography, transactional intimacy, power, humor, alliance, Veil Machine, Red Canary Song, Butterfly, “rescue,” criminalization, zines, fashion You can read about Lauren, Elizabeth, Ayanna, and links related to their interests here: https://twitter.com/LaurenLevitt8 https://dozierayanna.com/home.html https://veilmachine.com/ http://sexworkerfest.com/about.html https://www.redcanarysong.net/ https://www.butterflysw.org/ https://sxhxcollective.org/about/ https://decodingstigma.tech/ https://www.swopbehindbars.org/

Rosalind Morris on southern Africa, mining, gold, the resource curse, the informal sector, Thailand, inequality, cultural production, Zama Zama, the social sciences and humanities, and speech You can read about her work here: https://anthropology.columbia.edu/content/rosalind-c-morris https://www.rosalindcmorris.com/ https://www.rocamproductions.com/

Daisuke Miyao on communication breakdown, Japanese film, cats and cinema, media production and media studies, lighting, cinematography, and Oppenheimer You can read about Daisuke here: https://literature.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/dmiyao.html

Kimberly Voss on women’s social history, archival research, life in journalism for black and white women, domestic violence, food reporting, fashion journalism, and women’s pages in newspapers You can read about Kimberly here: https://communication.ucf.edu/person/kimberly-voss/ https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/the-journalism-of-style-how-new-yorks-fashion-editors-set-the-stage-for-fashion-reporting

Mark Williams on media history, textual analysis, critical thinking, attention culture, pedagogy, digital humanities, archives, and media ecology You can read about Mark’s work here: https://faculty-directory.dartmouth.edu/mark-j-williams https://mediaecology.dartmouth.edu/wp/archives/1026 https://mediaecology.dartmouth.edu/wp/ https://pub.dartmouth.edu/journal-of-e-media-studies-special-issue/index

Katie Moylan, Evi Karathanasopoulou, and Caroline Mitchell on community radio, podcasts, intimacy, locality, student production, visuality, participation by women, time, archives, platforms, and funding You can read about their work here: https://le.ac.uk/people/katie-moylan https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/evik https://www.sunderland.ac.uk/about/staff/media/carolinemitchell/ https://rebel-women-of-sunderland.captivate.fm/ https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/concrete-crocodiles-and-underpasses-help-celebrate-north-east-towns-60th-birthday/ar-BB1jKWVo

Hannah Burdette on Subcomandante Marcos, Latin American languages, hip hop, and definitions of indigeneity You can read about Hanna’s work here: https://www.csuchico.edu/hfa/about/people/lanc/faculty/burdette-hannah.shtml https://chicostatetranslat.wixsite.com/california-state-uni

Aisha Durham on belonging, representation, memory, African Americans, the “New” South, intersectionality, hip hop and class, poetry, Black autoethnography, and Beyoncé You can read about Aisha’s work here: https://www.aishadurham.com/

John Frow on institutions of interpretation, value, Marxism, non-representational accounts of representation, Murdoch University, surveying Australian tastes, genre, climate change, and cultural studies You can read about John’s work here: https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/john-frow.html

Tony Kashani on consciousness, artificial technology, the collective unconscious, cinema as art and industry, Iranian film, growing up in Iran, and compassion You can read about Tony’s work here: https://tonykashani.com/ https://www.techumanity.online/

Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz on reproductive justice, LGBTQI issues, white maternity and nationalism, and youth activism You can read about Natalie’s work here: https://clas.uiowa.edu/gwss/people/natalie-fixmer-oraiz https://www.nataliefixmeroraiz.com/

John Naughton on how we got here, recovering utopians, internet history, liberal democracies, journalism, Conor Cruise O’Brien, the Open University, and technological determinism You can read about John here: https://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/network/john-naughton/ https://memex.naughtons.org/

Pat Aufderheide on documentary film, fair use, copyright monopolies, South Korea, the US, breaking encryption, telecommunications law, Latin America, Pauline Kael, Kartemquin, John Dewey You can read about Pat’s work here: https://www.american.edu/soc/faculty/paufder.cfm https://cmsimpact.org/program/fair-use/ https://cmsimpact.org/code/documentary-filmmakers-statement-of-best-practices-in-fair-use/ https://inthesetimes.com/ https://kartemquin.org/

Laura Camargo Fernández sobre ser diputada, el patriarcado político, las ultraderechistas femeninas, y lo lingüístico   Se puede leer de Laura aquí: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Laura-Camargo-Fernandez

Bill Green on multilingual diversity, English language and literature, rural and regional literacies, and teaching You can read about Bill’s work here: https://csu-au.academia.edu/BillGreen

Timothy Brennan on US imperialism, Palestine, postcolonialism, post-Sovietism, Edward Said, writing for a trade press, and Salman Rushdie You can read more about him here: https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/brenn032

John Martin Fischer on free will, analytic existentialism, religion, death, abortion, and immortality You can read about John’s work here: https://alaw003.wixsite.com/johnmartinfischer https://www.sptimmortalityproject.org/home

Graciela Victoria Franco Martínez sobre las humanidades, el pensamiento crítico, la tecnología, las universidades privadas colombianas pequeñas y la idea de una federación, centro-periferia, posmodernidad, y el racismo Se puede leer sobre su obra aquí: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ohKahGAAAAAJ https://www.utb.edu.co/blog/blog-de-ciencias-sociales-y-humanidades/el-lenguaje-como-el-lugar-de-la-realidad/ https://www.eluniversal.com.co/cronologia/-/meta/graciela-franco-martinez https://www.utb.edu.co/blog/blog-de-ciencias-sociales-y-humanidades/el-lenguaje-como-el-lugar-de-la-realidad/

Caitlin Davies on the history and contemporaneity of female sleuths and criminals, journalism, divorce, serving papers, missing persons, shadowing people, women and the Thames, and fiction versus non-fiction writing You can read about Caitlin’s work here: https://www.caitlindavies.co.uk/

Steve Brint on conflicts in state power, diversity, and academic freedom, complaints about ‘cancel culture’ to push a right-wing educational agenda, the politics of spectacle, the image of sociology, diversity initiatives, and the contributions of universities You can read about Steve’s work here: https://spp.ucr.edu/faculty-spotlight-steven-brint https://profiles.ucr.edu/api/CvAttachment/5318650 https://www.chronicle.com/article/if-trump-wins

Meryl Alper on young people, play, media effects, communications, disability, families, Sesame Street, Nickelodeon, Disney, and autism You can read about Meryl’s work here: https://merylalper.com/ https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545365/kids-across-the-spectrums/

María Moreno Carranco sobre la familia, las elecciones mexicanas, la auto-etnografía estudiantil durante Covid-19, Santa Fe, La Roma, La Condesa, la cultura alternativa, los temblores, y el riesgo Se puede leer más sobre María aquí: https://dcsh.cua.uam.mx/portfolio-item/dra-maria-del-carmen-moreno-carranco/#toggle-id-2 https://cua-uam.academia.edu/MariaMorenoCarranco

Anna Hickey-Moody, Jeneen Naji, and Tapasya Narang on Irish multiculturalism, media coverage of conflict, infrastructural discrimination, intersectional feminist humanities, postcolonial study, radical poetry, postcolonial relations, and conditions for asylum seekers   You can read about their work here: https://www.annahickeymoody.com/ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-arts-celtic-studies-philosophy/our-people/jeneen-naji https://irelandindia.ie/people/tapasya-narang/ https://medium.com/@intersectionalhumanities/welcome-to-the-intersectional-humanities-research-community-at-the-institute-for-arts-and-9a6ce630d718 https://fullstackfeminismdh.pubpub.org/pub/uhrymy2d/release/1

Bridget Backhaus on climate change, Australian and Indian community radio, audiences, Arnstein’s Ladder, decline in volunteerism, and ethnography You can read about Bridget’s work here: https://experts.griffith.edu.au/19191-bridget-backhaus

Tim Taylor on capitalism, music, labor, managers, technologies, world music, ethnography, classical music and colonialism, ethnomusicology, and the tin whistle You can read about Tim’s work here: https://timothydtaylor.com/

Gavan Titley on Gaza, free speech, media infrastructure, victimhood, nationalism, multiculturalism, Ireland, colonialism, public-service media, knowledge, and consequentialism You can read about Gavan’s work here: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/gavan-titley

Steven Hadley on cultural democracy and policy, the arts, creative industries, Johnny Vegas, Happy Mondays, audience cultivation, and leadership You can read about Steven’s work here: https://www.theaudienceagency.org/our-team/steven-hadley and contact him via: sdjhadley@gmail.com

Diana Leon-Boys on Latina girls’ media and research, motherhood, Elena of Avalor, Disney, transformational flexibility, studies of production, meaning, and reception, Spanish, and theme-park work You can read about Diana’s work here: https://www.dleonboys.com/

Stephen Duncombe, Peter Bloom, and Stevphen Shukaitis on post-capitalist societies, realizing utopias, self-management in sports, radicalism in business schools, running organizations, students, and artificial intelligence You can read about their work here: https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/stephen-duncombe https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/shuka90902/stevphen-shukaitis https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/bloom09008/peter-bloom https://c4aa.org/ https://www.catalyticsound.com/ https://www.essex.ac.uk/centres-and-institutes/commons-organising-values-equalities-and-resilience https://www.fordhampress.com/9781531506513/aeffect/

Stacey Sowards on critical race theory, Dolores Huerta, the United Farm Workers, Indonesia, reproductive justice, environmental communication, PETA, and joy You can read about Stacey’s work at: https://commstudies.utexas.edu/faculty/stacey-k-sowards

David Lloyd on settler colonialism in Palestine and Ireland, Gaza and US universities, Césaire, Beckett, Kant, Schiller, aesthetics, creativity, Cabral, and affirmative action You can read about David’s work at: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/dclloyd https://davidcolleslloyd.com/about/

Catherine Benamou on US and Madrid Spanish- and Portuguese-language TV, news, telenovelas, African community media, Orson Welles, fieldwork, and It’s All True You can read about Catherine’s work here: https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=5510

Chris Robé on reactionary populism, progressive Hollywood, Eisenstein, anarchism, surveillance, and social movements You can read about Chris’ work here: https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/scms/faculty/robe/ https://blog.pmpress.org/authors-artists-comrades/chris-robe/

William Mazzarella on advertising, magic, disenchantment, charisma, affect, media, religion, Indian film censorship, mass society, liberalism, and populism You can read about William’s work here: https://anthropology.uchicago.edu/directory/Willliam-T-S-Mazzarella

LS Kim on Asian Americans in media culture, stereotypes, Maid for Television, whiteness, cross-racial coalitions, and ceilings for Asian Americans in Hollywood You can read about her work here: https://film.ucsc.edu/faculty/ls_kim https://www.lskim.com/

Katherine Johnston on surveillance, Profiles and Plotlines, New Mexico, Serena Williams, Amazon, the International Spy Museum, and big data as storytelling You can read about Katherine’s work and interests here: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/english/people/JohnstonK#Biography https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/profiles-and-plotlines https://www.spymuseum.org/

Claire Parkinson on the Dangerous Dogs Act, gender, class, activism, critical animal studies, media coverage, and anthropomorphism You can read about Claire here: https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/person/claire-parkinson/staff/ https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/cfhas/

William Robinson on global capitalism, the transnational capitalist class, Latin America, neoliberalism, European versus US and Chinese imperialism, the global police state, absence of an organized global left, journalism, and future crises You can read about William’s work here: https://robinson.faculty.soc.ucsb.edu/ https://www.facebook.com/WilliamIRobinsonSociologist/

Arvind Rajagopal on engineering, sociology, media studies, the history of studying communication, NWICO, religion, India, Nehruvianism, and Hindutva https://nyu.academia.edu/ArvindRajagopal

Melissa Wilde on religion, Hitler, eugenics, suffrage, evolution, inequality, class, race, birth control, and Vatican II You can read about Melissa’s work here: https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/people/melissa-wilde https://theconversation.com/profiles/melissa-j-wilde-546285

Tom Schatz on classical Hollywood, New Hollywood, conglomerate Hollywood, independents, blockbuster franchises, and streaming You can read about Tom’s work here: https://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/tom-schatz https://www.thenation.com/article/society/netflix-disney-media-consolidation/

Siobhan Angus on tar sands, renewables, Canadian identity, class, minerals, Marx, photography, organizing—and fertilizer You can read more about Siobhan here: https://www.siobhanangus.com/

Juan Antonio Tarancón de Francisco, Luis Miguel García Mainar, Elena Oliete Aldea, y Carmen Sáez González sobre la crisis y la esperanza en cine Se puede leer meas sobre su obra aquí: https://filologiainglesa.unizar.es/personal/juan-antonio-tarancon-de-francisco https://filologiainglesa.unizar.es/personal/luis-miguel-garcia-mainar https://sideral.unizar.es/sideral/CV/elena-oliete-aldea https://filologiainglesa.unizar.es/personal/carmen-saez-gonzalez https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/global-genres-local-films-9781501320163/ https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/screening-the-crisis-9781501388125/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10509208.2023.2177069

Millan Diaz Foncea sobre la economía, las intervenciones sociales, y los negocios sociales Se puede leer sobre la obra de Millan aquí: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Millan-Diaz-Foncea https://lafabricadelosocial.org/

Paul Adler on the environment, socialism, WWII, mobilization for a green transformation, complex capitalist organizations, labor, automation, and critical management studies You can read about Paul’s work here: https://faculty.marshall.usc.edu/Paul-Adler/

Heidi Ashton on marginalizing UK arts, boosterish rhetoric, precarious cultural labor, injuries, the First Position, transactional welfare, COVID-19, dancing, choreography, Coppelia, and producing You can read about Heidi’s work here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/staff/heidi_ashton/ https://www.kvndancecompany.com/coppelia https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10286632.2022.2058497