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This article posits that entertainment and pleasure should be key aspects of humor studies—both in the study of so-called mere humor and so-called serious humor. Contrary to Satan's formulation—in Mark Twain's work—of humor as a... more
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      ArtPleasureLiterary studiesPenn State University
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      Travel WritingTransnationalismHumorMark Twain
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      ArtLiterary studiesThe American Culture
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      EthnohistoryAnthropologyRepresentationLanguage Studies
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The Ida B. Wells Homes, the first black-occupied housing project built in Chicago, were completed in 1941. Throughout their construction and inhabitation, the black community in Chicago worked to create a self-contained space which would... more
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      American StudiesSerial killers (Anthropology)Home
There is an image I can't get out of my head. It's the image of John Wayne Gacy's wife cooking dinner in a well-appointed kitchen above a crawlspace literally full of bodies. I can't shake the question of how a woman could ignore that... more
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      American StudiesSerial killers (Anthropology)Home
This special issue of Imaginations will concentrate on media engaging with petroleum and its attendant socio-political and economic structures. Drawing on technology and media studies, energy humanities scholarship, and a range of methods... more
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      Media StudiesFilm StudiesEnvironmental HumanitiesDecolonial Thought
Ce numéro spécial d'Imaginations sera consacré aux média s'intéressant au pétrole ainsi qu'aux structures socio-politiques et économiques qui l'entourent. S'inspirant des études sur la technologie et les médias, sur les sciences humaines... more
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      Media StudiesFilm StudiesRecherche-Créationétudes Cinématographiques
Academics fly a lot: to research sites and archives, to conferences and workshops. Yet flying has many negative repercussions. Air travel has disproportionate climate impacts, and for reasons of time, money, and border security, produces... more
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During fall 2018, a multidisciplinary cohort of graduate students participated in a course conducted by professors Javiera Barandiarán and Mona Damluji as part of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Energy Justice in Global Perspective at the... more
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      NarrativeScholarshipMedia Environment
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      Women's HistoryChildren's Literature & CultureHistory of the Left
The proliferation of cases exhibiting algorithmic bias (Buolamwini and Gebru, 2018; Noble, 2018; Precarity Lab, 2020) and wider social mobilizations challenging structural oppression, has led actors in government and industry to invest in... more
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      CyberlawEthnic and Racial StudiesFeminist science and technology studiesSocial impact
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      American StudiesTourism StudiesIsrael/PalestineColonialism