{"id":2547,"date":"2025-09-11T09:39:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2025-09-11T09:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:41:18","slug":"pop-culture-theory-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2025\/09\/11\/pop-culture-theory-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Culture Theory Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The next session of PCTG will be held on Wednesday, 17th September, 5pm-7pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a ramp-up for spooky season, we&#8217;ll be discussing Monster Theory. First coined by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, this theory sets out an analytical framework for examining the concept of the gendered, sexual, racial, and disabled Others in media and culture. We&#8217;ll email out a brief reading to people on the mailing list to spark conversation. However, if you&#8217;re unable to do the reading, you&#8217;re still very welcome to attend in-person or online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To grab the info about the reading, room booking, or the Zoom link, please email Kit at&nbsp;klr272@student.bham.ac.uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next PCTG session will be held on Wednesday 17th September 5pm-7pm. We&#8217;ll be discussing Monster Theory to get us ready for the upcoming spooky season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2363,"featured_media":2539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,261],"tags":[262],"class_list":["post-2547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-lit","category-events","tag-pctg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547","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\/2363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2550,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions\/2550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}