Zane Austin Willard 🏳️‍🌈 (is on the job market 😄)

I want you all to just watch how quickly mainstream media moves on from this story now.

As sad as I am about the death of UChicago, my alma mater and one of the world's great universities, there is something tragically poetic about the university being done in by the very same neoliberal logic that the UChicago econ department did more than almost any other institution to foster.

The Academic BlueSky community has been a terrific resource and support system in so many ways in recent years.

Thank you all for being a part of this community.

Onward colleagues 🫶🏼

CV

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Reframing performance’s ontology: hybridity in contemporary performance art’s ontology I argue performance studies’ modernist ontological assumptions of fleeting are antithetical to contemporary performance art which relies on digital technology for mediated viewing processes. In thi...

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Fostering critical consciousness: Critical service learning and intersectional reflexivity in the first-year classroom Building on two common practices in higher education, the first-year seminar and service learning, this project uses a critical service-learning model guided by intersectional reflexivity to foster...

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Fostering critical consciousness: Critical service learning and intersectional reflexivity in the first-year classroom Building on two common practices in higher education, the first-year seminar and service learning, this project uses a critical service-learning model guided by intersectional reflexivity to foster...

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Fashioning Zaya Wade in the Press: Authenticity, Black Femininity, and Transnormativity - Zane Austin Willard, Alisha L. Menzies, 2024 Since Zaya Wade came out as transgender, she has continued to take up prominence in popular culture and press coverage of Zaya has centered on her fashion. In t...

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RuPaul’s Drag Race: Queer authenticity and strategic Westernness Abstract. We analyze RuPaul’s Drag Race: UK vs The World (UKVTW), part of the larger RuPaul’s Drag Race franchise—one of the most popular current media rep

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Ambivalent surveillance: teaching in the times of anti-woke This article addresses the current racialized surveillance regime censoring Blackness and targeting educators in public education, known as “anti-woke.” Building on critical surveillance scholarshi...

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Folks, I am on the academic job market!

I am a critical cultural, media, and surveillance studies scholar. I look at popular media, centering an analysis of racialization and queerness with attention to how surveillance shapes performances of authenticity and citizenship.

See my profile and pubs ⬇️

Stealing for inspiration!

precisely what Lauren Berlant was arguing in 1997 🥲

and we are still here…

Sometimes I forget how much I enjoy writing until I'm deep into the process, but it really can be hugely rewarding not just getting your thoughts on paper but then pruning and sculpting until you're managing to say exactly what you want to say without anything extra

There are now solid drafts of 4 of my 5 dissertation chapters 😮‍💨

Just to keep getting feedback, and seeing how the pieces keep fitting together.

And also prepare my job market materials 😅

#ANewHope

The hope we needed.

Andry José Hernández Romero with a makeup client.

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.

No one has heard from you in 97 days.

As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

A great editorial opportunity! Also, Field Notes give you some wiggle room to experiment. Pop music scholars, apply!

For those unconditionally cheering the attacks on Iran, remember that our early strikes in Afghanistan and Iraq were “successful”. But we ended up getting dragged into costly wars that created more terrorists than we killed. The American people haven’t forgotten that.

I think stretching it out to 8 episodes was too much, the beats need to come quicker

But the series’ ability to play with the mundane-absurdity tension is fascinating

Hand-made poster with NO KING and a guillotine.

Asked my son to pick up glitter on the way home. I want the blade edge to sparkle. #NoKings

Just saw a black dodge marked as DHS (in discrete gray letters) put on blue lights and pull over a tractor trailer on I-95 S in Georgia

Not sure what it was about, but the idea that DHS cars are acting like police is wild

“Nothing meaningful exists outside discourse,” and I can assure you the mattress I slept on for four nights at the Outer Banks most certainly exists outside discourse… because that sheet of cement is meaningless

My back pain today… most definitely inside discourse… very meaningful 👴🏼😫

A meme showing Willem Dafoe from the life aquatic on the left side kind of sporty looking in a short set and on the right side all drizzled from the movie the lighthouse Willem Dafoe and on the left side it says blue sky with an invite code and on the right side it says two years later

Accurate

Christian Nationalists pretend that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, but the Constitution never mentions Jesus or Christianity. Not even once. Instead, it bans government promotion of *any* religion. Don't be fooled by their lying propaganda.