{"id":2524,"date":"2025-07-02T16:06:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2025-07-02T16:06:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:06:47","slug":"pop-culture-theory-group-5pm-tues-8th-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2025\/07\/02\/pop-culture-theory-group-5pm-tues-8th-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Culture Theory Group (5pm, Tues 8th July)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next session of Pop Culture Theory Group will be\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Tuesday<\/span> 8th July<\/strong>, from\u00a0<strong>5-7pm BST<\/strong>, in\u00a0<strong>on campus<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>online<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Per a suggestion from Kit, we&#8217;ll be thinking about finding queerness in fantasy literature, for which we&#8217;ll be reading &#8216;Hiding in plain sight: The invisibility of queer fantasy&#8217; by Stephen Kenneally, the first chapter of the edited book\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/birmingham-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/f\/vmc2c6\/44BIR_ALMA_DS51211482420004871\">Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Popular Fantasy<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2016). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As always, if you don&#8217;t have time to get to it, please attend anyway! More people always lead to better discussions. The chapter is available on FindIt, but if you&#8217;re having trouble accessing it, or need the IRL\/zoom room information, get in touch with Georgie Rowe (<a href=\"mailto:gxr697@student.bham.ac.uk\">gxr697@student.bham.ac.uk<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/10\/Pop-Cult-Header-1024x500.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/10\/Pop-Cult-Header-1024x500.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/10\/Pop-Cult-Header-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/10\/Pop-Cult-Header-768x375.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/10\/Pop-Cult-Header.png 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next session of PCTG focuses on queerness in fantasy literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":2122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[262],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-lit","tag-pctg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}