When gender is brought into concerns about older people, the emphasis often lies on stereotypes connected to older women, and few comparative studies have been conducted pertaining to the representation of the intersection between older age and gender in fiction. This article argues that not only children’s literature, traditionally considered t…[Read more]

On the example of “The Walking Dead”, we demonstrate in how far the reception of pop culture narratives can serve not merely trivial entertainment, but epistemological interest as well. For this purpose, we introduce the term pop cultural secondary worlds and formulate the thesis that these can be used analogously to thought experiments. The…[Read more]

Digital visual culture in cyberspace creates new methods for Black queer women to resist the oppression of controlling images. As cyborg beings, Black queer women perform their identities in creative and boundary-breaking ways, often using sexually explicit lyrics and dance to resist white normativity and heteronormativity. Multinational social…[Read more]

Before coffee * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Save a chicken! * PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Abstract of presentation at 2023 MLA Convention session “193 – Poetics, Poiesis, Poeticity”

Taking up the challenge of navigating the complex world of digital humanities, Making Sense of Digital Humanities offers readers an exploration of the many ways scholars have employed the diverse toolkit of digital humanities to create a better understanding of the synergies and disruptions created by technological change. Rooted in a concern for…[Read more]

|El estudio de la participación en la producción televisiva del spot de bien público en televisoras locales contempla las acciones que se efectúan como parte del proceso y los condicionamientos que inciden en la realización de la actividad. La investigación en cuestión se enfoca en develar las relaciones que se establecen entre los sujetos en los…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: ´La piel que habito´, película de 2011 de Pedro Almodóvar, es una historia sugerente, llena de ecos de debates de actualidad, y que señala en muchas direcciones diferentes, todas interesantes, pero el núcleo donde se unen todas es un personaje tan patológico que es totalmente implausible, excepto como ficción cinemat…[Read more]

La promoción de cultura, formación de valores y el crecimiento integral es una premisa de la política de educación superior cubana. La universidad además de ser un centro de formación profesional, es un centro cultural para formar actitudes críticas en materia de artes y literatura. Se plantean como objetivos: diseñar la identidad visual del Cin…[Read more]

El objeto social de las televisiones locales cubanas es promover el desarrollo de programaciones que integren la cultura y las tradiciones locales. Las temáticas de la programación se concretan fundamentalmente en el cumplimiento de
aquellas producciones priorizadas u otros intereses de la televisión cubana en su instancia nacional. De este mo…[Read more]

A review of three poetry collections by Obiorah Momife titled So Far Away, Eyes of the One Who Loves and Where Two Roads Meet. The three books contain some of the most pungent poems penned by any poet in contemporary Nigeria. They are witty and engaging just as they inspire the reader to take steps to change the present decadent situation that…[Read more]

The American Religious Sounds Project (ARSP) Site Coordinator Manual was compiled in 2019 to assist researchers and their students in following the ARSP procedures for site selection, recording, and archiving sounds. The topics covered in the ARSP manual include: project summary and history; site selection and fieldwork, using recording equipment,…[Read more]