Karen Tongson is Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies at University of Southern California and the author of Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (2011). She is currently the series editor for Postmillennial Pop at NYU Press and an associate editor of the Journal of Popular Music Studies. She has two books in progress: Normal Television: Critical Essays on Queer Spectatorship after the ‘New Normalcy’ and Empty Orchestra: Karaoke in Our Time.
Karen Tongson
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The Book That Made Me: Gay
A professor of English and gender studies reveals how one’s identity can be transformed from the most unexpected sources—in this case, sports memoir …
Antiheroic Feminism: An Interview with “UnREAL” Co-creator Sarah Gertrude Shapiro
Sarah Gertrude Shapiro is a difficult person to pin down. With the second season premiere of UnREAL—the Peabody-award-winning series for which she not only writes and produces, but now also directs—on the horizon, Shapiro has made a reluctant entry into the limelight on awards show red carpets, Paley Center panels, and other events for the […]
