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Teaching Cultural Studies after Trump

November 16, 2016November 23, 2016 by Megen de Bruin-Molé

[Updated: 23 November 2016] I’ve been trying to come up with a fitting topic for my 100th post on this blog (hi, guys) for days, but I find that one thing overshadows all the others in my mind: the US presidential elections. In the wake of 8 November, many educators have been re-evaluating the content of … Read more

Our Zombies, Ourselves: A Lecture with J. Halberstam

February 4, 2015January 10, 2016 by Megen de Bruin-Molé

At guest lectures I usually come prepared to fully understand about half of the references made, and get excited about one or two particular sound bytes. Not so at Jack Halberstam’s lecture on Zombie Humanism at the End of the World (originally titled ‘Our Zombies, Ourselves: Queerness at the End of Time’), kindly hosted by the Cardiff … Read more