As we convene virtually for this year’s conference of the American Studies Association, we invite you to read the current issues of the following journals for free from the comfort of your …
Read More >At the turn of the previous century, during the Porfiriato, Mexico lived through a time of technological revolutions that modified ways of perceiving time, distance, and sounds. Consider the phonograph, created by …
Read More >For us, taking an “oceanic approach” means to assess novel fields for scientific procedures whose “reality filters” significantly differ from land-based conceptions and modes of operation.
Read More >Marjolein Van Bavel’s “Morbo, lucha libre, and Television: The Ban of Women Wrestlers from Mexico City in the 1950s“—published in the current issue of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos and which we invite you to …
Read More >By Lara Gabrielle, author of forthcoming Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies On March 15, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for the 93rd …
Read More >“What brings us together is our ongoing research and activist pursuits on how to design and deploy equitable, ethical, and empathetic technologies that center the voices and values of marginalized groups and cultures.”
Read More >In 1939, at the height of her stardom, the actress Shanta Apte went on a spectacular hunger strike in protest against her employers at Prabhat Studios in Poona, India. The following year, …
Read More >New Spring 2021 Issue “It’s rare in the life of an editor that every feature stands outas special, but such is the case in this wonderful issue.”—B. Ruby Rich, Editor of Film …
Read More >This guest post is part of our #SCMS2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more. In this video, scholar Samantha Sheppard offers a sneak peek at her book, Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, …
Read More >In this edition of our UC Press Editor Spotlight Series, we sat down with our Music, Film, and Media Studies Editor Raina Polivka, to discuss what drew her to her disciplines, what …
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