What is public and who decides? How is racial identity formed, communicated, and negotiated through material, visual, and virtual formats? Public performances of blackness and the politics of racial identity… Read More
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“Whistler’s Afterlives: J.M. Whistler’s Lasting Cultural Legacy” — Lecture by Dr. Margaret Stetz
Want to learn more about Whistler? Check out the latest Scholar in the Library lecture by Professor Margaret Stetz. A description of her talk is below: Like his contemporary and “frenemy” Oscar… Read More
Stetz Publishes in The Gissing Journal
The current issue of The Gissing Journal (Volume LIV, No. 4, October 2020), an international scholarly periodical established in 1965 and devoted to studying the works and the world of… Read More
Methods in Material Culture Graduate Student Working Group
The Methods in Material Culture Graduate Student Working Group is an interdisciplinary organization of graduate students at the University of Delaware focused on sharing material culture methodologies. The group convenes throughout… Read More
“Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History” by Dr. Jaipreet Virdi
At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi’s world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently by everyone. Her deafness downplayed by society… Read More
Wasserman Contributes to Oxford Bibliographies Online
Check out Dr. Sarah Wasserman’s recent contribution, “Thing Theory,” to Oxford Bibliographies Online. If you’ve been looking for a resource dedicated to material culture studies and thing theory, this publication is for you! Wasserman summarizes… Read More
B-Sides: Brecht Evens’s “The Making Of” by Dr. Sarah Wasserman
How could any Belgian graphic novel escape Tintin’s shadow? Enter Brecht Evens’s The Making Of. To find out more, check out Dr. Sarah Wasserman’s new article published in Public Books, an online… Read More