Carla Freccero
· Professor of Literature, History of ConsciousnessUniversity of California, Santa Cruz · Cultural Studies
Active 1983–2025
Research topics
- Art
- History
- Sociology
- Political Science
- Art history
- Aesthetics
- Literature
- Psychology
- Media studies
Selected publications
The MIT Press eBooks · 2025-02-18
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingMarie Darrieusecq's Queer (Maternal) Worldings
2025-01-16
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingSince its early days, literary queer theory has had as its horizon the analysis of literary language as denaturalizing normative categories of the everyday, particularly what is called the heterosexual matrix: the alignment of gender, sex, sexuality, and reproduction. 1 Many of its early practitioners not only analyzed the non-normative content of the works they studied, in some cases exposing the history of canonical straightenings of that content, but they also played hard with form and language to produce queer meanings and queer linguistic play (puns, double entendres) from literary language itself, thus engaging in campy textual performances. 2
Bloomsbury Academic eBooks · 2022-01-01
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingNew York University Press eBooks · 2021-12-31
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding1 Popular Culture: An Introduction
New York University Press eBooks · 2021 · 63 citations
1st authorCorresponding- Sociology
- Art
- Media studies
From Madonna and drag queens to cyberpunk and webzines, popular culture constitutes a common and thereby critical part of our lives. Yet the study of popular culture has been condemned and praised, debated and ridiculed. In Popular Culture: An Introduction, Carla Freccero reveals why we study popular culture and how it is taught in the classroom. Blending music, science fiction, and film, Freccero shows us that an informed awareness of politics, race, and sexuality is essential to any understanding of popular culture. Freccero places rap music, the Alien Trilogy and Sandra Cisneros in the context of postcolonialism, identity politics, and technoculture to show students how they can draw on their already existing literacies and on the cultures they know in order to think critically. Complete with a glossary of useful terms, a sample syllabus and extensive bibliography, this book is the concise introduction to the study of popular culture.
2021-07-06
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingNew York University Press eBooks · 2021-12-31
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding2021-07-06
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingNew York University Press eBooks · 2021-12-31
book-chapterOpen access1st authorCorresponding2 Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, and Pedagogy
New York University Press eBooks · 2021-12-31 · 1 citations
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Frequent coauthors
- 3 shared
Louise O. Fradenburg
- 3 shared
Jodie Medd
- 2 shared
Karla Mallette
- 2 shared
Annamarie Jagose
Washington University in St. Louis
- 1 shared
John A. Bishop
- 1 shared
Robert E. Wood
University of Washington
- 1 shared
H. F. Heath
University of Bristol
- 1 shared
Herman Gray
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