Zane Austin Willard 🏳️🌈 (is on the job market 😄)
@zaneawillard.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @ USF Communication | Cultural Studies | Media | Surveillance | Pop Culture | Public Policy | Race & Ethnicity | Queerness | Citizenship | Authenticity
📍Chicago X Tampa
📍Chicago X Tampa
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Folks, I am on the academic job market!
I am a critical cultural, media, and surveillance studies scholar. I look at popular media, centering an analysis of racialization and queerness with attention to how surveillance shapes performances of authenticity and citizenship.
See my profile and pubs ⬇️
I am a critical cultural, media, and surveillance studies scholar. I look at popular media, centering an analysis of racialization and queerness with attention to how surveillance shapes performances of authenticity and citizenship.
See my profile and pubs ⬇️
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I want you all to just watch how quickly mainstream media moves on from this story now.
September 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I want you all to just watch how quickly mainstream media moves on from this story now.
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As sad as I am about the death of UChicago, my alma mater and one of the world's great universities, there is something tragically poetic about the university being done in by the very same neoliberal logic that the UChicago econ department did more than almost any other institution to foster.
August 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
As sad as I am about the death of UChicago, my alma mater and one of the world's great universities, there is something tragically poetic about the university being done in by the very same neoliberal logic that the UChicago econ department did more than almost any other institution to foster.
Folks, I am on the academic job market!
I am a critical cultural, media, and surveillance studies scholar. I look at popular media, centering an analysis of racialization and queerness with attention to how surveillance shapes performances of authenticity and citizenship.
See my profile and pubs ⬇️
I am a critical cultural, media, and surveillance studies scholar. I look at popular media, centering an analysis of racialization and queerness with attention to how surveillance shapes performances of authenticity and citizenship.
See my profile and pubs ⬇️
August 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Folks, I am on the academic job market!
I am a critical cultural, media, and surveillance studies scholar. I look at popular media, centering an analysis of racialization and queerness with attention to how surveillance shapes performances of authenticity and citizenship.
See my profile and pubs ⬇️
I am a critical cultural, media, and surveillance studies scholar. I look at popular media, centering an analysis of racialization and queerness with attention to how surveillance shapes performances of authenticity and citizenship.
See my profile and pubs ⬇️
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Sometimes I forget how much I enjoy writing until I'm deep into the process, but it really can be hugely rewarding not just getting your thoughts on paper but then pruning and sculpting until you're managing to say exactly what you want to say without anything extra
July 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Sometimes I forget how much I enjoy writing until I'm deep into the process, but it really can be hugely rewarding not just getting your thoughts on paper but then pruning and sculpting until you're managing to say exactly what you want to say without anything extra
There are now solid drafts of 4 of my 5 dissertation chapters 😮💨
Just to keep getting feedback, and seeing how the pieces keep fitting together.
And also prepare my job market materials 😅
Just to keep getting feedback, and seeing how the pieces keep fitting together.
And also prepare my job market materials 😅
July 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
There are now solid drafts of 4 of my 5 dissertation chapters 😮💨
Just to keep getting feedback, and seeing how the pieces keep fitting together.
And also prepare my job market materials 😅
Just to keep getting feedback, and seeing how the pieces keep fitting together.
And also prepare my job market materials 😅
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The hope we needed.
Andrew Cuomo has conceded the New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani.
June 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The hope we needed.
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Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 97 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
No one has heard from you in 97 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
June 20, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 97 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
No one has heard from you in 97 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
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A great editorial opportunity! Also, Field Notes give you some wiggle room to experiment. Pop music scholars, apply!
June 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
A great editorial opportunity! Also, Field Notes give you some wiggle room to experiment. Pop music scholars, apply!
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For those unconditionally cheering the attacks on Iran, remember that our early strikes in Afghanistan and Iraq were “successful”. But we ended up getting dragged into costly wars that created more terrorists than we killed. The American people haven’t forgotten that.
June 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
For those unconditionally cheering the attacks on Iran, remember that our early strikes in Afghanistan and Iraq were “successful”. But we ended up getting dragged into costly wars that created more terrorists than we killed. The American people haven’t forgotten that.
Just saw a black dodge marked as DHS (in discrete gray letters) put on blue lights and pull over a tractor trailer on I-95 S in Georgia
Not sure what it was about, but the idea that DHS cars are acting like police is wild
Not sure what it was about, but the idea that DHS cars are acting like police is wild
June 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Just saw a black dodge marked as DHS (in discrete gray letters) put on blue lights and pull over a tractor trailer on I-95 S in Georgia
Not sure what it was about, but the idea that DHS cars are acting like police is wild
Not sure what it was about, but the idea that DHS cars are acting like police is wild
“Nothing meaningful exists outside discourse,” and I can assure you the mattress I slept on for four nights at the Outer Banks most certainly exists outside discourse… because that sheet of cement is meaningless
My back pain today… most definitely inside discourse… very meaningful 👴🏼😫
My back pain today… most definitely inside discourse… very meaningful 👴🏼😫
June 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“Nothing meaningful exists outside discourse,” and I can assure you the mattress I slept on for four nights at the Outer Banks most certainly exists outside discourse… because that sheet of cement is meaningless
My back pain today… most definitely inside discourse… very meaningful 👴🏼😫
My back pain today… most definitely inside discourse… very meaningful 👴🏼😫
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Christian Nationalists pretend that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, but the Constitution never mentions Jesus or Christianity. Not even once. Instead, it bans government promotion of *any* religion. Don't be fooled by their lying propaganda.
May 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Christian Nationalists pretend that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, but the Constitution never mentions Jesus or Christianity. Not even once. Instead, it bans government promotion of *any* religion. Don't be fooled by their lying propaganda.
Finally realized my music must be at least 180bpm for writing to happen in any meaningful way
May 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Finally realized my music must be at least 180bpm for writing to happen in any meaningful way
Something good in the world today
Nicusor Dan wins in Romania www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/w...
In Upset, Centrist Wins Romania’s Presidential Election
www.nytimes.com
May 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Something good in the world today
Show us your writing in a gif
May 18, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Show us your writing in a gif
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"When we talk about measures and practices put in place to separate the 'deserving and undeserving poor,' we should recognize that these measures are based on a much more severe, harsh, and fundamental idea that the poor should be controlled and punished for being poor."
The Stigma of Poverty: In Conversation With Rebecca de Souza
The author of “Feeding the Other” demonstrates how stigmatization is a process that is as much about power and privilege as it is about marginalization and disenfranchisement.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
May 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
"When we talk about measures and practices put in place to separate the 'deserving and undeserving poor,' we should recognize that these measures are based on a much more severe, harsh, and fundamental idea that the poor should be controlled and punished for being poor."
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I don't know what this means, but I'm the one who wrote a fully updated, 624-page hurricane response plan at FEMA that took over 2 years of work and careful coordination among state and federal agencies. He could start by studying that.
Breaking WSJ:
The newly appointed head of FEMA acknowledged in private meetings that with two weeks to go until hurricane season, the agency doesn't yet have a fully formed disaster-response plan. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The newly appointed head of FEMA acknowledged in private meetings that with two weeks to go until hurricane season, the agency doesn't yet have a fully formed disaster-response plan. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I don't know what this means, but I'm the one who wrote a fully updated, 624-page hurricane response plan at FEMA that took over 2 years of work and careful coordination among state and federal agencies. He could start by studying that.
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The waitlist for this bad boy at the Titonka Elementary School library circa 1992. I tell you.
May 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The waitlist for this bad boy at the Titonka Elementary School library circa 1992. I tell you.
I love that UberEats notified me that I’ve justified the cost of my UberOne membership in savings this year….
So savvy 💸
So savvy 💸
two cartoon cats are shoveling money into a pile
ALT: two cartoon cats are shoveling money into a pile
media.tenor.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I love that UberEats notified me that I’ve justified the cost of my UberOne membership in savings this year….
So savvy 💸
So savvy 💸
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The weaponization of therapy speak and accommodation is really going to tank the whole endeavor
May 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The weaponization of therapy speak and accommodation is really going to tank the whole endeavor
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I'm not asking you to get from point A to point B. I'm asking you to get some exercise.
May 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I'm not asking you to get from point A to point B. I'm asking you to get some exercise.