Hi Everyone! Please join us this Monday, October 30th at 4:30 pm in Logan 801 for a special section co-hosted by Mass Culture Workshop and Theater & Performance Studies Workshop. This week we welcome Marissa Fenley, PhD student in the joint program in English and Theater & Performance Studies. Her paper is titled “Be A Puppet: […]

Hello Everyone! Please join us this Friday, October 20th at 11: 00 AM in Cobb 311 for our second meeting of the Mass Culture Workshop. This week we’re happy to welcome Susan Courtney, Professor of Film and Media Studies and English at the University of South Carolina. She will be presenting on her exciting new […]

Please join us for the opening Mass Culture Workshop (2017-18) this Friday, October 13th at 11 am in Cobb 311. We are looking forward to starting with a wonderful tribute to Hannah Frank by Donald Crafton, Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre (Emeritus), University of Notre Dame. His paper is titled “Pentimenti: Painterly Traces in […]

Please join us on Friday, June 9th at 10:30AM in Cobb 311 for the sixth, and final, Spring Quarter meeting of the Mass Culture Workshop. This week we’re looking forward to welcoming Dr. Takuya Tsunoda, Lecturer in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies. Takuya will be presenting an article in progress, titled “Radical or Clinical: Hani Susumu, Nouvelle Vague in Japan […]

Please join us on Friday, June 2nd at 10:30AM in Cobb 311 for the fifth Spring Quarter meeting of the Mass Culture Workshop. This week we welcome Matt Hubbell, PhD Candidate in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies. Matt will be presenting a chapter of his dissertation, Acting After the New Wave: The Political Aesthetics of Performance in France, 1968-1981. The chapter is […]

Please join us on Friday, May 26th at 10:30AM in Cobb 311 for the fourth Spring Quarter meeting of the Mass Culture Workshop. This week we’re excited to welcome Nicole Morse, PhD Candidate in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies. Nicole will be presenting a chapter of their dissertation on selfie aesthetics, titled “Because of You, I Know that I Exist”: Doubling in Selfie Aesthetics.” […]