Friends and Fellow Workers

I like to let friends and colleagues know what I’m reading from time to time. I also like to shamelessly promote the work of my colleagues, mentors, and friends.

What I am reading now? (Selected List)

Carol Clover, Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992).

Kendall Phillips, Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture (Westport, CT, Praeger, 2005).

Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism (2011) and The Queen of America Goes to Washington City (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997)

Kent Ono, Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past (New York: Peter Lang, 2009)

Linda Tuhiwai, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (Zed Books, 2012) 

Revisiting anything and everything Stuart Hall (rest in power).

New work from friends & colleagues that I am happy to promote!

Kristin Swenson, Lifestyle Drugs and the Neoliberal Family (New York: Peter Lang, 2013)

Rae Lynn Schwartz, Communicating Colonialism: Readings on Postcolonial Theory and Communication (New York: Peter Lang, 2014)

Matthew S. May, Soapbox Rebellion: The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916 (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2013).

Anna M. Young, Prophets, Gurus, and Pundits: Rhetorical Styles and Public Engagements (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2014).

Dana Cloud, We are the Union: Democratic Unionism and Dissent at Boeing (Champagne, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2011)

Jason Edward Black and Charles Morris III, An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013)

Daniel C. Brouwer and Robert Asen, Public Modalities: Rhetoric, Culture, Media, and the Shape of Public Life (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2010).