Faculty News

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. 

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.

Her current research seeks to recognize Shakespeare and his work as inevitably imbricated in the contemporary market of cultural commodities, a recognition that has consequences for how we “feel” about any given instance of that work.

As Amazon changes the face of capitalist business, it is also changing global culture in multiple ways. This book brings together some of the most important analyses of Amazon’s pioneering business practices and how they intersect with and affect the components of everyday culture.

Cultural Studies professor Alison Landsberg will deliver a keynote speech at the International Network for Theory of History annual conference hosted by the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities ‘Alfonso Vélez Pliego’ at the Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP). Read more here.

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."

In his essay, CS faculty Paul Smith considers the many contributing factors to the emergence of the present COVID-19 pandemic to scrutinize the history as well as the theoretical discourse on the politics of life expressed in vaccination efforts.

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.

Lancaster's piece, "Dreams of a Better Mexico," appeared over the summer in Jacobin while he was on sabbatical. Click through to be redirected to the article.