First of all, I want to congratulate our winner for the Frank Reade giveaway:
Eric J. of Massachusetts, USA
Thank you everyone for participating! I know in the coming months, I’ll have more in store, so watch this space for more steampunk goodies. ^-^
Also this spring, you may have noticed a derth of updates on this blog. This hasn’t been because steampunk & multiculturalism has fallen to the wayside — far from it! For those not in the know, I am currently finishing up my MA candidate work at New York University with a focus on steampunk performance. This means all of my spare time has been dedicated to the books and what our little community means to pop culture at large.
A bit of a late notice to announce here, but tomorrow, I’ll be at Mount Holyoke College, my alma matter, for their annual Crafting a Life in the Arts event about how to develop a creative career. So if you are in the Pioneer Valley area, don’t hesitate to drop a line.
Additionally, a brief reminder that I’ll also be presenting “Race Matters in Amestris: On the Treatment of Disenfranchised Minorities in Hiromu Arakawa’s Fullmetal Alchemist “ at the Pop Culture Association/ American Culture Association National Conference from April 11 – 14th. I’ll be up bright and early Thursday, April 12th, for the panel on “Race, Interculturality and Construction of Identity” from 8 – 9:30 in Salon C.
And a nod to my fellow panelists:
Blithe Devon
Dusty Clockworks: A Clockwork Orange and Firefly Through an Intercultural Lens
Leanne Foster
Cyborg Utopia: Rejecting the Myth of Control in Twenty-First Century Post-Determinism Science Fiction
It’ll be a fantastic opportunity to talk with fellow like-minded scholars and geeks. ^-^
Additionally, Beyond Victorana is now an academically-credited source! Christine Ferguson, a researcher from the University of Glasgow contacted me back in 2010 about an article she was working on about steampunk politics. Her piece “Surface Tensions: Steampunk, Subculture, and the Ideology of Style” has recently been published in the latest issue of the Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies and she refers to several pieces hosted here, calling us “a groundbreaking postcolonial steampunk blog.” Her assessments about ideologies of steam is an astute contribution and adds to work by previous academics and observers (and will able be a great help in my own research… hint hint for a bigger announcement later this year.)
Updates will continue to be sporadic for the next couple of months, but rest assured that what comes up will be worth it. ^-^
In addition, if you are interested in being a guest blogger, please don’t hesitate to contact me for details.
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