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Welcome to Positions & Interventions: a blog of the Cultural Studies Program at GMU. It features essays on contemporary culture by students, alumni, and professors of the Cultural Studies Program and interviews conducted by graduate students with distinguished speakers from our Cultural Studies colloquium series (CSC).
The Cultural Studies Program’s colloquium (CSC) series features talks by distinguished scholars from across the disciplines. Graduate student Amy Zhang interviewed Liza Featherstone, journalist and professor of journalism at New York University. See below for the transcript.
Barbie Zelizer, Raymond Williams Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, recently spoke at our Cultural Studies Colloquium. GMU Cultural Studies student, Caroline Guthrie, took the opportunity to interview Zelizer about her work.
Chris Edelson joined us for our Cultural Studies Colloquium last fall to discuss Trump and presidential powers. Click through for a brief interview where Edelson lays out his thoughts on President Trump and presidential powers under the U.S. Constitution.
CS Student, Christina Riley, sat down with Prof. Zizi Papacharissi to discuss her notion of "affective publics" and social media. Click here to see the full interview.
The Cultural Studies Program’s colloquium (CSC) series features talks by distinguished scholars from across the disciplines. Doctoral student Richard Todd Stafford interviewed Christopher Newfield about his book The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them.
Cultural Studies PhD candidate Christina Riley interviewed Andrew Ross of New York University prior to his presentation at our Cultural Studies Colloquium. Click through to read the full interview.
Marshall Steinbaum, Fellow and Research Director at the Roosevelt Institute, gave a presentation on the demographics and geographies of student debt during our 2016-17 Cultural Studies Colloquium. This article is a summary of that work.
The Cultural Studies Program’s colloquium (CSC) series features talks by distinguished scholars from across the disciplines. Graduate students David Zeglen and Zachary Marschall interviewed Benjamin Ginsbergm, who studies the rise of administrative staff and the concurrent fall in full-time, tenured faculty positions in Universities.
On October 1, the Cultural Studies Student Organizing Committee hosted the 10th annual Critiquing Culture Conference. It featured six paper panels with contributors from around the U.S. and Canada and a photographic exhibition on “Oppression and Structural Violence” by students and alumni of the American University graduate photography program. Read the article to find more about the conference.
Graduate student Lindsey Macdonald interviewed Ben Brewer about his work that examines bikes as a way to understand craft economies and global commodity chains. If you missed Dr. Brewer's CSC talk, or want a refresher, check out this article.
The Cultural Studies Program’s colloquium (CSC) series features talks by distinguished scholars from across the disciplines. Graduate student Caroline Guthrie interviewed Libby Anker about her book Orgies of Feeling, which explores how the genre of melodrama is present in modern politics.
Did you miss Emily Lordi's Colloquium lecture? If so, check out this interview that Christina Riley conducted to learn about Professor Lordi's take on the meaning of soul performance.
The Cultural Studies Program’s colloquium (CSC) series features talks by distinguished scholars from across the disciplines. Graduate student Dave Zeglen interviewed Daniel Zamora, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Click here to read more.
The Cultural Studies Program’s colloquium (CSC) series features talks by distinguished scholars from across the disciplines. Graduate student Austin Gallas interviewed Jordan Camp, Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University. See below for the transcript.
The CSC series features talks by distinguished scholars from across the disciplines. Graduate student Basak Durgun interviewed Ella Shohat, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, and Art and Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Click to read the interview.
The CSC series features talks by distinguished scholars from across the disciplines. Graduate student Tauheeda Yasin interviewed Grace Hong, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies at University of California Los Angeles. Click to read the interview.
The CSC series features talks by distinguished scholars from across the disciplines. Graduate student Christina Kappel interviewed Caetlin Benson-Allott, Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University.
The CSC series features talks by distinguished scholars from across the disciplines. Graduate student M. Liz Andrews interviewed Jaafar Aksikas, Professor of Cultural Studies at Columbia College Chicago.
The CSC series features talks by distinguished scholars from across the disciplines. Graduate student M. Liz Andrews interviewed Roderick Ferguson, Professor of American Studies, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, and African and African American Studies at the University of Minnesota.
J. Scott Killen uses the January 27th, 2014 Vergara vs. California case as an entry point to discuss the intersection between "bad teachers" and constitutional rights.
The CSC series features talks by distinguished scholars from across the disciplines. Graduate student Kyle Koeppe interviewed Walter Benn-Michaels, Professor of American Literature at University of Illinois-Chicago.
Jason Morris takes the establishment of a union by the Northwestern football team on January 28, 2014 as an entry point to discuss the political economy of college athletes.
