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Alex Wescott
Status: ABD
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Education
- B.A. University of California, Riverside, 06/2003
Employment History
- Assistant Lecturer, Writing Program, University of Southern California,
2006 -
2011
- Program Coordinator, Writing Program, University of Southern California,
2009-2010
Research
Summary Statement of Research Interests
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Late 19th and 20th C British and American Literatures and Cultures, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Queer Theory, Critical Race Theory, anti-work theory, slackers
Research Specialties
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My current project tracks the historical and culturally specific emergence of the slacker in the United States and Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries. It traces a genealogy that explores the particular economic, social, and cultural shifts that led to his emergence, as well as the production and reproduction of the slacker in popular and independent narrative cinema, television, and literature from the mid-19th century to the present.
Conference Presentations
- "The Reagan Revolution, Back to the Future, and the Politics of Potential," Impasse: 2012 Comparative Literature Graduate Conference. Irvine, CA, University of California, Irvine, Spring 2012
- Workshop Panel Participant: “Mapping the Past and Future of Asian American Cultural Production in Hollywood,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Conference. Los Angeles, CA, Spring 2010
- “Marijuana and Terrorist (Temporal) Drag: The War on Drugs, the War on Terror, and the ‘Immigrant Crisis’ in Harold & Kumar,” Getting Obsessive: Culture and Excess Conference. Los Angeles, CA, University of Southern California, Spring 2008
- “A Walk on the Wild Side: Queer Immigration/Queer Mobility in Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” Disjunctions Interdisciplinary Conference. Riverside, CA, University of California, Riverside, Spring 2007
- “All That Glitters: Queer Performativity and Self Construction in Glam Rock,” Sex Matters: Sexualities Across Disciplines Conference. Riverside, CA, University of California, Riverside, Spring 2006
Publications
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Magazine/Trade Publication
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Wescott, A. G. "Feeling Vampire Feelings." Eds. Artemisa Clark and Melinda Guillen (UCSD). Sensitive Boys. Issue 1, Spring 2013.
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Multimedia Scholarship and Creative Works
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Guest editor. Social Text Journal Online: Periscope Dossier, "Work and Idleness in the Age of the Great Recession." [http://www.socialtextjournal.org/periscope/work-and-idleness/],
Spring
2013
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Web Article, "Introduction." Work and Idleness in the Age of the Great Recession. Social Text Journal Online, Periscope Dossier. [http://www.socialtextjournal.org/periscope/2013/03/introduction-2.php],
Spring
2013
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Web Article, "Back to the Future and the Politics of Potential." Work and Idleness in the Age of the Great Recession. Social Text Journal Online, Periscope Dossier. [http://www.socialtextjournal.org/periscope/2013/03/back-to-the-future-and-the-politics-of-potential.php],
Spring
2013
Guest Lectures in Courses
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SWMS 210: Race, Gender, Sexuality and Popular Culture "Hedwig and the Angry Inch." Professor Karen Tongson. University of Southern California,
Spring
2007
Service to the University
Committees
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Member, Department of English, Graduate Admissions Committee, 2011-2012
Service to the Profession
Professional Memberships
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American Studies Association, 2013-
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Modern Language Association, 2012-
