Pop Conference 2016

Barry Shank is professor and chair of the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of Dissonant Identities: The Rock ‘n’ Scene in Austin, Texas, The Political Force of Musical Beauty and other encounters with the structured feelings of life in America. He has served as President of the US branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. “The Voice in... Read More →

Robin James is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at UNC Charlotte. She is author of Resilience & Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism (Zero, 2015) and her writing has appeared in The New Inquiry, Noisey, SoundingOut!, Cyborgology, and The Journal of Popular Music Studies. She’s writing a manuscript that argues neoliberal political economy, algorithmic culture, post-identity politics, and... Read More →

Nina Mashurova is a writer and editor, covering music, arts, and culture with a special attention to queerness, cyborgs, and politics. They are a contributing editor to Global Voices and Freemuse, covering global censorship in arts and music, and have previously worked as the associate editor at Impose Magazine. They are a co-director of programming at the Silent Barn and a co-founder of the Gender is Over (If You Want It) project... Read More →

Gustavus Stadler teaches English and American studies at Haverford College. He writes about race, sexuality, popular music, sound, audio technology, and literature in the 19th and 20th centuries. From 2010 to 2013, he co-edited The Journal of Popular Music Studies with Karen Tongson. He is currently writing a book titled Woody Guthrie and the Intimate Life of the Left. “Queer People’s Songs” | On December 31, 1945, Pete Seeger... Read More →