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Sitcoms and Culture

Sitcoms and Culture

Sitcoms and Culture examines sitcoms as cultural artifacts ripe for exploration as they reflect the shifting landscapes of our society. From questions of social change to the portrayal of women and other racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities, sitcoms have evolved alongside the major social changes of the last half century. Using an interdisciplinary approach, author James Shanahan combines research on cultural indicators with an empirical methodology and cultural analysis to examine over 50 years of sitcoms to discern the reality of how these comedies have portrayed life to us across generations of television.
The Jewish Inn in Polish Culture

The Jewish Inn in Polish Culture

In The Jewish Inn: Between Practice and Phantasm, editors Halina Goldberg and Bożena Shallcross present 11 captivating articles that delve into the inn’s significance as a symbolic incubator of Jewish cultural possibilities. The collection examines the inn’s evolving artistic potential across different eras, genres, media, and analytical perspectives.
Missouri Railroads

Missouri Railroads

Missouri Railroads goes beyond the history of a single state and its railroads to illustrate Missouri’s vital role in shaping American railroading. These railroad companies mirrored national trends, yet each twist and turn carries a distinct local flavor. Authors Don L. Hofsommer and Carlos A. Schwantes weave a captivating narrative that celebrates Missouri’s contribution to the broader American story.

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Wanderings

by Lindsay Janssen

Doing the research for Periodical Famines signified my return to academia, so it meant much more to me than ‘just’ doing research to fill a scholarly gap….

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This Old Goose Still Honks: Dysfluency in William Carlos Williams’s Late Poetry

By Jeffrey Careyva, author of “‘The Mind and the Poem Are All Apiece’: William Carlos Williams and the Dysfluent Poetics of Aphasia,” Journal of Modern Literature,…

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Victorian Studies 66.4: What can Scholars’ Quotations Tell us about our Fields and Disciplines?

By Sierra Eckert (Wesleyan University) and Milan Terlunen (Johns Hopkins University)

**Read Eckert and Terlunen’s article “What We Quote: Disciplinary History and the Textual Atmospheres of Middlemarch” for free on Project MUSE….

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