Popular Culture — ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Fri, 28 Apr 2023 15:58:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Sylvia Sierra /faculty-experts/sylvia-sierra/ Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:49:33 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=168826 Sylvia Sierra is an Assistant Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ.

Sierra is a discourse analyst interested in language and social interaction. She takes an interactional sociolinguistic approach to exploring knowledge management and identity construction in everyday conversation in both face-to-face and online contexts. Her research interests include identity, popular culture/media, knowledge management, social media, multimodal methods/embodied interaction, discourse-level sociolinguistic variation, and Mexican Spanish culture.

Sierra’s first book, , is scheduled for release in October 2021. The book focuses on how and why millennials quote a wide array of media in everyday talk, including films, tv shows, video games, memes, songs, and books. Sierra looks at the interrelationship between intertextuality, framing, epistemics and identity by analyzing actual everyday conversations among millennials which contain references to both old and new popular culture.

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]]> Steven Cohan /faculty-experts/steven-cohan/ Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:27:03 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=155526 Steven Cohan is a Dean’s Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the English Department in the College of Arts and Sciences at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ. Professor Cohan taught courses and supervised graduate research in film studies, popular culture, gender and sexualities, and cultural studies. His writing focuses primarily on queer theory, narrative theory, films and musicals, and the history of Hollywood.

Cohan is a highly regarded writer, having written many books including books include  (1988, co-authored with Linda M. Shires),  (1993, co-edited with Ina Rae Hark),  (1997, co-edited with Ina Rae Hark), (1997),ÌýÌý(2001),ÌýÌý(2005),ÌýÌý(2008)ÌýÌý(2010),ÌýHollywood by Hollywood (2018), and Routledge Film Guidebooks: Hollywood MusicalsÌý(2019).

His essays have appeared in Camera Obscura, Screen, and Cinema Journal as well as many anthologies. Since retiring he has written essays on Danny Kaye’s queer persona, The Boys in the Band, Billy Wilder’s apartment plots, Marilyn Monroe biopics, the cold war cycle of musicals set in Paris, Bob Hope’s comedian musicals, Judy Garland as a cult star, Esther Williams’s Latin lovers, Queer Hollywood Musicals of the 1940s, the 1937 A Star Is Born, and Fosse/Verdon. At present he is starting a new book that examines the connections between film noir and the woman’s film of the 1940s and 1950s. His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean.

He was awarded the Chancellor’s Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement in 2006 and the Graduate School’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Education in 2014. He was President of the Society of Cinema Studies from 2015-2017.

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