Tag: Cultural Studies

Return to the Enchanted Forest: ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’

August 6, 2014

Writer Haruki Murakami. BY MATTHEW C. STRECHER, PH.D.Professor of Japanese language, literature, and culture at Winona State University In just a couple of days, the English translation of Haruki Murakami’s most recent novel, Shikisai o motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to, kare no junrei no toshi will be released (aka Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of … More Return to the Enchanted Forest: ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’

Sexuality in school: LGBT issues are not the exclusive concern of LGBT students.

July 23, 2014

BY JEN GILBERTAssociate professor in the Faculty of Education at York University, Toronto When lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues emerge in schools, it is often as controversy. Battles over sex education, worries about young children reading picture books about same-sex families, outrage at boys taking boys to the prom, lawsuits over gay-straight alliances, and … More Sexuality in school: LGBT issues are not the exclusive concern of LGBT students.

From corsets to commerce: A two-part look at European and American fashion in the nineteenth century.

June 11, 2014

The extraordinary color and variety of textiles in this afternoondress, ca. 1872, attest of the refinement of the French textileindustry. Creator: Charles Frederick Worth. This image is postedunder terms of ARTstor. Fashion, clothes, and culture BY CRISTINA GIORCELLIProfessor of American Literature at the University of Rome Three <!– Habits of Being I dealt with the … More From corsets to commerce: A two-part look at European and American fashion in the nineteenth century.

Black sexuality, the glass closet, and how the "down low" can never be one specific thing.

April 23, 2014

Since the early 2000s, the phenomenon of the “down low”—black men whohave sex with men as well as women and do not identify as gay, queer, or bisexual—has exploded in media and popular culture. Wordle image source. BY C. RILEY SNORTONNorthwestern University Many of the ideas in Nobody is Supposed to Know emerged from hours … More Black sexuality, the glass closet, and how the "down low" can never be one specific thing.

The definition of academic freedom, for many, does not accommodate dissent.

April 16, 2014

BY STEVEN SALAITAAssociate professor of English at Virginia Tech Academic freedom is often a diversion from the free practices of academic labor. It does not yet fully accommodate dissent. In many ways, as the essays in the collection The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent illustrate, academic freedom is a byproduct (and progenitor) of deeply … More The definition of academic freedom, for many, does not accommodate dissent.

The BDS movement and the front lines of the war on academic freedom.

April 9, 2014

BY SUNAINA MAIRA Professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Davis In December 2013, the American Studies Association announced that it had endorsed an academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions, following two years of discussion in the association and based on a majority vote by the membership in support of the boycott … More The BDS movement and the front lines of the war on academic freedom.

On the challenge of co-existence.

March 25, 2014

Paul Carter writes about his book Meeting Place, in which waiting, meeting, non-meeting, and communication have possibilities in unexpected manifestations. BY PAUL CARTERRMIT University in Melbourne, Australia Meeting Place is like its subject: where people meet, there are always many voices and views. So Meeting Place brings together stories, insights, beliefs and experiences from many … More On the challenge of co-existence.