Douglas Coupland Conference
With Drs. Andrew Tate and Diletta De Cristofaro, I’m organizing an online conference on 23-24 April 2021 on Canadian writer and visual artist Douglas Coupland.
“New Irony & Old Sincerity: How the Metamodern and the Post-secular Meet in Indie Rock.”
Coming April 26, 2021. Included in Isn’t It Ironic: Receivership and Responsibility in Popular Culture, edited by Ian Kinane and Elizabeth Parker, London: Routledge, 2021.
Isolated Little Cool Moments
I gave a presentation as part of a cluster of essays celebrating the 2021 30-year anniversary of the publication of Generation X.
An Invisible Crisis
I gave a presentation titled “An Invisible Crisis: Jordan Peele’s Exploration of Racialized Trauma” for the British Association for Contemporary Literary Study’s Summer 2020 virtual conference.