Category Archives: author commentary

May 15, 2019

Angelique Harris on “Emotions, Feelings, and Social Change”

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Dr. Angelique Harris is the founding director of the Center for Gender and Sexualities Studies and the Gender and Sexualities Studies Program and is an associate professor of sociology  in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. … Continue reading →

May 8, 2019

Tolga Ozyurtcu on “Living the Dream”

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Tolga Ozyurtcu, Ph.D. is a Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin. He recently shared his thoughts on his article, “‘Living the Dream’: Southern California and Origins of … Continue reading →

April 12, 2019

Donna J. Nicol and Jennifer A. Yee on “Reclaiming Our Time”

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Donna J. Nicol is an associate professor and the chair of Africana studies at California State University Dominguez Hills. Jennifer A. Yee is an associate professor of Asian American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Nicol and Yee recently answered … Continue reading →

April 8, 2019

Melissa Phruksachart “On Mentoring Future Faculty of Color”

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Melissa Phruksachart (prook-sa-chart) is LSA Collegiate Fellow in the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan. She teaches and researches across Asian/American studies, women of color and transnational feminist politics, and U.S. minority film and media. … Continue reading →

April 3, 2019

Candis Bond on “Catcalling and the College Classroom”

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Candis E. Bond is an assistant professor of English and women’s and gender studies at Augusta University, where she also serves as director of the university writing center. Her areas of expertise include writing center studies, British modernism, and women’s … Continue reading →

April 1, 2019

Authors on Issues: James E. Dobson on Critiquing Digital Humanities Methods

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The following is a guest post from James E. Dobson, author of Critical Digital Humanities: The Search for a Methodology.   The sheer number of sessions on the digital humanities at the recent Modern Language Association meeting in Chicago demonstrates … Continue reading →

March 21, 2019

S. Tay Glover discusses Feminist Teacher Article

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We have been sharing blog posts and Q&As from the contributors to Feminist Teacher 27.2-3, a special issue focused on the experiences of women of color in the academy. Below, S. Tay Glover, shares thoughts from her article ‘“Black Lesbians—Who Will … Continue reading →

March 8, 2019

Sonja Thomas on “Tap Dancing and Embodied Feminist Pedagogies”

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Sonja Thomas is an assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Colby College, where she teaches courses on gender and human rights, feminist theory, critical race feminisms, and postcolonial and native feminisms. She is the author of Privileged … Continue reading →

August 6, 2018

Q&A with Roger R. Tamte, author of “Walter Camp and the Creation of American Football”

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Roger R. Tamte is a patent attorney and scholar of early American football who has studied Camp for many years. He recently answered some questions with us about his new book, Walter Camp and the Creation of Football. Q. Who was … Continue reading →

July 16, 2018

Q&A with Brooks Blevins, author of The Old Ozarks

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Brooks Blevins is the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University. He is the author or editor of eight books, including Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South; Arkansas, Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and … Continue reading →