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The following are articles organized by name, written by past and present faculty in the Department of American Studies.
Jose Fernandez
Kim Marra
“Equus and the Production of Queer Historical Memory”
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism
Kim Marra
Spring 2017, 31:2 33-53
“Horses Queer the Stage and Society of Shenandoah”
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Kim Marra
2017, Performing Animals: History, Agency, Theater 154-174
“Saddle Sensations: Female Equestrian Prowess at the National Horse Show in Madison Square Garden, 1883-1920”
University of Michigan Press
Kim Marra
2017, Showing Off, Showing Up: Studies of Hype, Heightened Performance, and Cultural Power 27-52
“LGBTQ Twentieth Anniversary Forum”
Theatre Topics
Kim Marra
March 2016, 26:1 23-62
“Circus Echoes: Dancing the Human/Equine Relationship under the Millennial Big Top”
Oxford University Press
Kim Marra
2015, Oxford Handbook of Theatre and Dance 813-39
“Massive Bodies in Mortal Performance: War Horse and the Staging of Anglo-American Equine Experience in Combat”
Palgrave MacMillan
Kim Marra
2015, Performing Animality: Animals in Performance Practices 117-34
"Queer Aging Bareback: A Ride with the Parthenon Sculptures"
TDR: The Drama Review
Kim Marra
2014 , 58:4 (T224) 147-57
Horseback Views: A Queer Hippological Performance (autobiographical solo performance piece)
University of Michigan Press
Kim Marra
“Lesbian Scholar/Gay Subject: Turn-of-the-Century Inversions”
Theatre Topics
Kim Marra
September 2003, 235-246
Lina-Maria Murillo
"Birth Control, Border Control: The Movement for Contraception in El Paso, Texas 1936-1940" (2021)
Lina-Maria Murillo
Thomas Oates
“Representing the Audience: The Gendered Politics of Sport Media”
Feminist Media Studies
Thomas Oates
Winter 2012, 12, no 4 603-607
The Sporting Paratext, Reception, and the Male Domain in CBS’s ‘One Shining Moment’
Communication & Sport
Thomas Oates, Travis Vogan
“New Media and the Repackaging of NFL Fandom”
Sociology of Sport Journal
Thomas Oates
March 2009, 26, no 1 31-49
“The Erotic Gaze in the NFL Draft”
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
Thomas Oates
January 2007, 4, no. 1 74-90
“Agile Big Man: The Flexible Marketing of Yao Ming”
Pacific Affairs
Thomas Oates
Summer 2004, 77, no. 2 187-210
Catriona (Tina) Parratt
A Testing Time
Journal of Sport History
Catriona (Tina) Parratt
October 2014, 41:3 487-494
Rene Rocha
"Demographic Context, Mass Deportation, and Latino Linked Fate" (2020)
Rene Rocha et al.
"Trump-induced Anxiety among Latina/os" (2019)
Rene Rocha et al.
"How the Link Between Social Capital and Migratory Duration Helps Us Understand Immigrant–Native Inequality" (2018)
Rene Rocha et al.
"Immigration Enforcement and the Redistribution of Political Trust" (2015)
Rene Rocha et al.
Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder
"Designing Latinidad: Gulf South Migration and Contemporary Gentrification in Ybor City, Florida" (2018)
Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder
"On Strike and On Stage: Migration, Mobilization, and the Cultural Work of El Teatro Campesino: (2014)
Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder
Eric Vázquez
"'Your Life Is One-Hundred-Percent at Risk': The Caravan of the Mutilated and the Internationalism of the Vulnerable" (2022)
Eric Vázquez
Counterinsurgency’s Ambivalent Enterprise
Johns Hopkins University Press
Eric Vázquez
January 2020, Volume 23, Number 1 pp. 120-144
"Interrogative Justice in Héctor Tobar's The Tattooed Soldier" (2018)
Eric Vázquez
Interrogative Justice in Héctor Tobar's The Tattooed Soldier
Johns Hopkins University Press
Eric Vázquez
Spring 2018, Volume 64, Number 1 pp. 129-152
Travis Vogan
"Bill Simmons, Grantland.com, and ESPN's Corporate Reinvention of Literary Sports Writing Online"
Convergence
Travis Vogan
September 2014
The Sporting Paratext, Reception, and the Male Domain in CBS’s ‘One Shining Moment’
Communication & Sport
Thomas Oates, Travis Vogan
Can We ‘Snowfall’ This? Digital Longform and the Race for the Tablet Market
Digital Journalism
Travis Vogan
Institutionalizing Sport History in the Contemporary Sports Television Documentary
Journal of Sport History
Travis Vogan
Deborah Whaley
"Addressing the Crisis: Mugging, Mobbing, and Memory Screens”
Iowa Research Online
Deborah Whaley
“Whispers and Lies” and “Red Scorpion” (poems) in Sycorax’s Daughters: The Anthology of Fiction and Poetry by Black Women
Cedar Grove
Deborah Whaley
“Fat Bats, Postpunks, and Ice Witches: Afro-Goth and the Undead Music of Militia Vox and the Comix of Calyn Pickens-Rich”
Routledge Press
Deborah Whaley
“Celluloid Masks and Retractable Skins: Transforming the Scales of Blackness in Sequential Art” (Foreword) in 'Toonskin, exh. cat., cur. Kenya (Robinson)
ArtSPACE, New Haven, Ct.
Deborah Whaley
Saturday, May 11, 2013 - Saturday, June 29, 2013, pp. 8-9
“Spike Lee’s Phantasmagoric Fantasy and the Black Female Sexual Imaginary in She Hate Me”
Poroi: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention
Deborah Whaley
“Black Cat Got Your Tongue?: Catwoman and the Alchemy of Postracialism”
Journal of Graphic Novel and Comic Book Studies
Deborah Whaley
June 2011, 2, no. 2 3-23
Nick Yablon
'A Curious Epitome of the Life of the City': New York, Broadway, and the Evolution of the Longitudinal View
Journal of Urban History 1-32
Nick Yablon
September 12, 2016
“Utopia or Heterotopia: John Sloan and the ‘Roof Life of the Metropolis,’”
American Art
Nick Yablon
Summer 2011, 25, no. 2 14-17
“Encapsulating the Present: The War of the Classes and the Birth of the Time Capsule, 1876-1901”
Winterthur Portfolio
Nick Yablon
Spring 2011, 45, no. 1 1-28
Commentary and popular writing
- "Before Roe v. Wade, U.S. Residents Sought Safer Abortions in Mexico (2021), Lina-Maria Murillo
- "Left Out of Bukele's Bitcoin Decision, Salvadorans Face Deepening Inequality" (2021), Eric Vázquez
- "UI Community Members Embrace Hispanic and Latino/a/x Culture" (Daily Iowan/ 09-14-21), Claire Fox highlighted
- "Coronavirus Pandemic Shines a Light on the Risks Meatpackers Are Facing" (2020), Kristy Nabhan-Warren
- "In the Service of White Supremacy: Immigration and Reproductive Violence" (2020), Lina-Maria Murillo