The History of Air Guitar, Air Bands, and Air Playing in the Twentieth Century
The US Air Guitar Nationals take place this week in Nashville. Last year, Byrd McDaniel published an essay in American Quarterly looking at the history around these competitions. He shared some insights with us for this special video.
On today’s episode, we talk with Barrett Taylor, professor and coordinator of the higher education program at the University of North Texas. He studies the ways in which higher education interfaces with society, investigating topics including state politics...
Koritha Mitchell is is a public intellectual, a professor of English, a literary historian, an award-winning author and cultural critic, and as of last year she is also a member of the Hopkins Press Advisory Board. Her work has already had quite an impact both...
Last January, at the MLA conference in New Orleans, the journal Poe Studies hosted a panel discussion about the influence of Eliza Richards’ book Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle. This is a book that has played an important role on the study...