Conference Help

This weekend I was a part of the Wayne Pop virtual conference. There were 4-5 sessions per day with time in between to be off of Zoom and take a break. It felt so good. Not only to be able to be a part of a conference without all of the stress of attending, but…

Ah-ha!

"Theory is chosen to illuminate the artifact, rather than vice versa. A work of popular culture scholarship begins with the artifact, whether it is a television show, a song, a celebrity, a movie, a performance, a consumer object, a comic book, or a romance novel."

Interdisciplinary sites of Deviancy

In working on getting ready to really start my dissertation, I am pleasantly surprised to find myself interested in musical theater as a site of research. That means I am finding interesting topics to look at within musical theater productions, but I am not a theater or performance studies scholar. It's the same way that…

I am so lucky!

Both of my parents went to college and earned bachelor's degrees. My mom was the first in her family. My dad was the son of a Spanish professor. Both of them raised my sister and I to not repeat their mistakes: don't get a degree because it sounds like fun. My mom wanted to be…

I have a theory, it’s in my thesis!

Sorry about the title. But I've had "I've Got a Theory" from the Buffy episode "Once More With Feeling" stuck in my head lately. For the past two school years, I have been lucky enough to be a masters student in the Department of Popular Culture at BGSU. It is the only program of its kind in the…

Can I get a little personal?

Today I got an e-mail that has changed my future and it will affect this blog as well. At the end of August I will be starting at Bowling Green State University's graduate school in the Department of Popular Culture. I'm going to be working on a master's degree in Popular Culture! I posted about…