What I Did on My Summer Vacation
I recently returned from my trip to the UK. Before going, I’d read an article in the Globe and Mail about how Canadians have the worst culture shock when we go to Britain because we somehow expect everything to be the same in the mother country. I mean, we have the same Queen, how...
A Fan by Any Other Name
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. (Romeo and Juliet II.2, 45–46) One of the things that’s been really fun about my recent interviews has been talking with people about how they use words like nerd, geek, and fan. Despite my own (admittedly nerdish)...
Lightning Round: 2011.04.29
Jamie Rennie, the Statler to my Waldorf, has a new blog, MEDIUMROAR. Jamie and I met in our first year together at Queen’s, where we bonded over sitting in the back of class and cracking wise. Later, we were housemates while in grad school and gradually developed our own Darmok-like language of intertextual references....
Going on Tour
I’m planning a trip to the UK this summer. I’ve long been enamoured of the media, cultural, and communication studies research community in Britain: I’m on one of the major mailing lists, and there always seem to be interesting conferences, talks, and workshops going on in the British Isles. I was happy to discover...