Representations of Women in Japanese and American Pop Culture

August 1, 2012

(From a 2004 paper on a cross-cultural examination of the superheroine) In their article …

Making Sense of Entertainment in Virtual Worlds

May 25, 2012

In September of 2008, with the ink on my doctorate barely dry, I jumped a plane and landed in Denmark. …

March 31, 2011

Every once and awhile, you’ll go into a used bookstore, and after you finish wondering about the future of the …

March 2, 2011

Think about all of the movies being made lately adapting a comic book or graphic novel. The superhero movie has …

February 24, 2011

[What follows is from a class assignment for a critical theory course I took in graduate school. It's in idea …

February 18, 2011

Back in 1997, I was a freshman in college, at the venerable University of Wisconsin at Madison. I went into …

February 15, 2011

Last fall, I was invited to talk at a science fiction convention in Copenhagen, Denmark, called Fantasticon. My friend helped …