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Roger Lancaster's New Book Forthcoming

Roger Lancaster's New Book Forthcoming

Roger Lancaster's forthcoming book, "The Struggle to be Gay - In Mexico for Example" is being published by the University of California Press and is currently set to be released in February of 2024. 

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Alex Monea Has Been Busy

Alex Monea Has Been Busy

His most recent book examines circuits and circulation in a variety of historical contexts including military communication, medicine and health, policing and surveillance, automobility and transportation, and optics.

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Faculty Spotlight: Alexander Monea publishes book The Digital Closet

Faculty Spotlight: Alexander Monea publishes book The Digital Closet

Drawing extensively from articles written by members of online queer communities attempting to bring attention to this issue, The Digital Closet examines, in the words of publisher MIT Press, "how heteronormative bias is deeply embedded in the internet, hidden in algorithms, keywords, content moderation, and more."

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Professor Paul Smith Honored by the Cultural Studies Association

Professor Paul Smith Honored by the Cultural Studies Association

At their 18th annual conference, the Cultural Studies Association honored our very own Professor Paul Smith for his decades of exemplary scholarship and contributions not just to the CSA but also to Cultural Studies as a field. In a plenary session held in Dr. Smith’s honor, some of his former students and colleagues, including the current president of the CSA Helen Kapstein, spoke glowingly about Dr. Smith’s scholarship, his influence on their own work, and their personal relationships with their friend and sometimes mentor.

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