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Logan’s Run

As you’ve noticed we have a new blogger on board our little blog adrift.
Daniel Logan joins us to write our weekly Midweek Diary Rescue: Literary Edition. He explains the series, now four blog posts old (he refers to them as columns), as “an attempt at creating some sort of loose ‘index’ of “interesting matter floating [...]

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Midweek Diary Rescue: Literary Edition

Hi all.
This weekly column is an attempt at creating some sort of loose “index” that’ll make things a bit easier to fathom. I’ll try to put together a brief run-down of interesting matter floating around in the media, this with an emphasis on the literary. What follows is basically a short blurp on each item, [...]

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BETWEEN GAZES

Here is my latest academic contribution to the project of enlightenment in the form of outpouring of textbooks.
BETWEEN GAZES: FEMINIST, QUEER AND OTHER FILMS is a text book in which I introduce key terms in feminist, queer, and postcolonial/diaspora film. My point of departure is in the question “what do you want from me?” Although [...]

El (Tejano) Dia de los Muertos

In San Antonio “The Day of the Dead” is not as widely celebrated throughout the city like the mass cultural traditions of Halloween. But on November 1-2 in the older central West and South side “barrios,” most Americans might feel like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.
Image: Michael Silver,”Calaveras at San Antonio Texas Day of [...]

Cosmopolitan Folk

Lately, I have been preoccupied with a new research project that I am trying to work up into a paper for the next Nordic Association of American Studies conference in May 2009.
These days I spend about 10 hours a week commuting, which means that I get to listen to a lot of CDs. One of [...]

Containing More Multitudes

As you all must be aware, the great Paul Newman recently passed on. Katie McFarlane, a graduate student? at UEA has just joined the CM blog as their first contributer with a tribute to Mr. Newman, News: Remembering Paul Newman. Drop by and visit our friends across the North Sea “little pond.” They’re just a [...]