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Zane Austin Willard 🏳️‍🌈 (is on the job market 😄)
@zaneawillard.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate @ USF Communication | Cultural Studies | Media | Surveillance | Pop Culture | Public Policy | Race & Ethnicity | Queerness | Citizenship | Authenticity
📍Chicago X Tampa
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The Academic BlueSky community has been a terrific resource and support system in so many ways in recent years.

Thank you all for being a part of this community.

Onward colleagues 🫶🏼
August 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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CV

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August 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Sage Academic Books - The Sage Handbook of Promotional Culture and Society - Regimes of Visibility in Disney's CSR: Corporate Wokeness, Neoliberalism, and Promotional Industries
<p>The Sage Handbook of Promotional Culture and Society critically examines the social, political, and cultural impact of promotional industries, including adve
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August 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Reframing performance’s ontology: hybridity in contemporary performance art’s ontology
I argue performance studies’ modernist ontological assumptions of fleeting are antithetical to contemporary performance art which relies on digital technology for mediated viewing processes. In thi...
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August 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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August 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Fostering critical consciousness: Critical service learning and intersectional reflexivity in the first-year classroom
Building on two common practices in higher education, the first-year seminar and service learning, this project uses a critical service-learning model guided by intersectional reflexivity to foster...
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August 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Fostering critical consciousness: Critical service learning and intersectional reflexivity in the first-year classroom
Building on two common practices in higher education, the first-year seminar and service learning, this project uses a critical service-learning model guided by intersectional reflexivity to foster...
www.tandfonline.com
August 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Fashioning Zaya Wade in the Press: Authenticity, Black Femininity, and Transnormativity - Zane Austin Willard, Alisha L. Menzies, 2024
Since Zaya Wade came out as transgender, she has continued to take up prominence in popular culture and press coverage of Zaya has centered on her fashion. In t...
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August 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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RuPaul’s Drag Race: Queer authenticity and strategic Westernness
Abstract. We analyze RuPaul’s Drag Race: UK vs The World (UKVTW), part of the larger RuPaul’s Drag Race franchise—one of the most popular current media rep
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August 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Ambivalent surveillance: teaching in the times of anti-woke
This article addresses the current racialized surveillance regime censoring Blackness and targeting educators in public education, known as “anti-woke.” Building on critical surveillance scholarshi...
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August 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Zane Austin Willard | Communication Department | USF
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August 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Stealing for inspiration!
July 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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precisely what Lauren Berlant was arguing in 1997 🥲

and we are still here…
July 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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I think stretching it out to 8 episodes was too much, the beats need to come quicker

But the series’ ability to play with the mundane-absurdity tension is fascinating
June 13, 2025 at 1:56 AM