Category: Popular Culture

“The Pleasure Principle: A Post-Hip Hop Search for a Black Feminist Politics of Power”—Joan Morgan

Collier House Free Admission UO campus UO School of Music and Dance: A Presentation by the THEME Colloquium Joan Morgan is an award-winning journalist and author, as well as a provocative cultural critic. A pioneering hip-hop journalist, she began her…

Priscilla Peña Ovalle: Thinking Through a Research Trajectory, From Hollywood Latinas to Hair/Style

CSWS Research Matters, Spring 2012 Thinking Through a Research Trajectory, From Hollywood Latinas to Hair/Style Latinas function as the in-between bodies that mediate and maintain the racial status quo of mainstream media, by Priscilla Peña Ovalle, Associate Professor, University of…

Mara Williams: InsideOregon story

UO graduate teaching fellow accepted into Chicago comics program May 15, 2012—“Mara Williams has been drawing her entire life. The graduate teaching fellow in the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication is a self-described, consummate scribbler and doodler.”…

Mara Williams Accepted to Comics Industry Intensive—at the Mistress Level

UO graduate student Mara Williams has been accepted at the Mistress level to the Adventure School for Ladies: Comics Intensive, a residential program focused on increasing diversity in the comics industry. Mara is only one of two artists accepted at the…

“Silenced—Women and the Broadcast Blacklist”: an article about the research of CSWS director Carol Stabile

CASCADE: UO College of Arts and Sciences. Professor Carol Stabile’s research looks at some of the female artists whose careers were all but obliterated after their names appeared in the notorious book, Red Channels. An article by Patricia Hickson and…

The Taormino-OSU Case Study: a pedagogical tool

A Pedagogical Case Study of the Keynote-Speaker Controversy at Oregon State University’s Modern Sex Conference by Lacey Mamak, MLIS, February 2012 http://csws.uoregon.edu/wp-content/docs/Misc/TaorminoOSU_casestudydistro.pdf Abstract