Apr 10 2019
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The U.S. Department of Defense under Patrick M. Shanahan has quietly pulled funding for an independent organization…
Jan 26 2018
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Last year, dozens of lucky students got to take “The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival, and Black Horror Aesthetic,”a…
Nov 16 2016
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It’s difficult for linguists to explain to people we meet what it is that we do, and why we are so fascinated with…
Jan 30 2016
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Back in September, the Museum of Science Fiction announced that they were going to be releasing scholarly…
Sep 17 2015
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The Museum of Science Fiction is well on its way to becoming a brick and mortar museum in Washington DC. Now,…
Jun 9 2015
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What happens at the Symfrozium, a one-day academic conference on the movie Frozen? More than you’d think. Dorian Lynskey at The Guardian recaps the many different, but scrupulously polite, views of the movie.
Mar 21 2014
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Why do we need Porn Studies? The first issue of a new journal devoted to the study of sexuality for show is…
Dec 28 2013
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"Summing up years of work in one sentence." That's the tagline for Lol My Thesis, where PhD candidates (Edit: and…
Nov 4 2013
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Tons of genre stories take place in schools, where students learn to command superpowers and magical abilities, or…