English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles

Language Choice and Hip Hop in Tanzania and Malawi

Alex Perullo et al. — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:20:56 PDT

Expectations in the Tanzanian Hip Hop Community

Alex Perullo — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:40:34 PDT

Review of Mwenda Ntarangwi's "East African Hip Hop: Youth Culture and Globalization"

Alex Perullo — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:54:23 PDT

Review of 'Empire' by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

Thomas Roach — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:51:32 PDT

A Review of 'The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: A Gay Life in the 1940s' by Ricardo J. Brown

Thomas Roach — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:40:39 PDT

'Reflections on the Gay Question:' Review Essay on Didier Eribon's Insult and the Making of the Gay Self

Thomas Roach — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:15:08 PDT

Murderous Friends: Homosocial Excess in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' (1948) and Gus Van Sant's 'Elephant' (2003)

Thomas Roach — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:09:13 PDT

Teaching Homo-Economicus

Thomas Roach et al. — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:03:59 PDT

Sense and Sexuality: Foucault, Wojnarowicz, and Biopower

Thomas Roach — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:55:57 PDT

Impersonal Friends: Foucault, Guibert, and an Ethics of Discomfort

Thomas Roach — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:34:56 PDT

Morning 'till Night, Cradle to Grave: Laura Boulton, Recorded Sound, and Meaning in Angolan Music

Alex Perullo — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:12:03 PDT

Book Review of "Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage by Laura Edmondson

Alex Perullo — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:21:57 PDT

Hooligans and Heroes: Youth Identity and Rap Music in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Alex Perullo — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:39:05 PDT

During the 1990s, the rise in popularity of hip-hop culture in Tanzania brought increased public scrutiny of urban youth due, in part, to preconceived notions of youth culture and rap music...

Rumba in the City of Peace: Migration and the Cultural Commodity of Congolese Msuic in Dar es Salaam

Alex Perullo — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:31:55 PDT

Politics and Popular Song: Youth, Authority, and Popular Music in East Africa

Alex Perullo — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:07:29 PDT

Roundtable on Teaching "Work" as an Interdisciplinary First-Year College Seminar

Maura Coughlin et al. — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:15:57 PDT

Media Practice in the Humanities Classroom

Elizabeth Walden — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:45:58 PST

While there is good reason to be suspicious of the enthusiastic rush to integrate technology into the classroom, we in the humanities should embrace the opportunity it presents for media literacy and critical cultural inquiry.

'You Want to Torture Zora?' Olivier Assayas's Demonlover as Critique.

Elizabeth Walden — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:05:50 PST

Demonlover represents Olivier Assayas's attempt to find the appropriate filmic structure and themes to depict the complexity of the present intensive form of global consumer capitalism. He uses a structure which plays with genre expectations and borders on incoherence in order to capture a sense of the social totality and its psycho-sexual investments.

Review of the Cultue of Lies and The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugresic

Martha Kuhlman — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:26:11 PDT

In 1993, a Danish critic reviewing Dubravka Ugrešić's novel Fording the Stream of Consciousness, a clever satire of a literary conference, accused her of engaging in a crass form of literary escapism when she should have been writing about the"bloody war" raging at home in her native Yugoslavia. Since the novel was first published in 1988, this criticism was entirely misplaced. In fact, the war has been on her mind the entire time, as is evident from her two most recent books, The Culture of Lies (essays 1991-1998) and The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (1991-1996).

Getting Conspiratorial: Review of: Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to the X-files by Peter Knight

Martha Kuhlman — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:23:15 PDT

Peter Knight begins his foray into the conspiratorial corners of popular culture with the following provocation: conspiracy theories are no longer the “delusional rantings” of the fringe elements in society, but rather constitute “many people’s normal way of thinking about who they are and how the world works.” Conspiracy theories, in his view, reflect a general skepticism of governmental authority, covert actions, “official” versions of history, and, more broadly, express a philosophical anxiety about agency and causality in these postmodern, poststructural times—and he argues that this skepticism is largely justified.