The University of Texas at Austin
American Studies
Instructor: Irene Garza #36280/30800/46030/47572 Office hrs: By Appointment OR MW, 3:30-5:00pm W 1-3:00, WMB 5.118 (ph: 512-471-4557) CBA 4.344 [email protected]
- by Irene Garza
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
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
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
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
- by Emily Roehl
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
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