Godzilla: A Symbol of National Destruction and National Resilience

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Jason Jones, Foreign Languages and Literature, UW-Milwaukee Since its birth in 1954, Godzilla has held a prominent place on the shelf of any sci-fi film fanatic while reserving a space in the hearts and minds of everyone else. The monster […]

“Blackness in Post-racial Italy”

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Cristina Lobardi-Diop, Associate Professor of Italian Studies, American University of Rome; Visiting Research Scholar, Department of Women's Studies and Gender Studies, Loyola University of Chicago In the wake of the historic election of the first black President of the United […]