Karen Tongson
Expert in gender studies and gender politics, sexuality, suburban culture, and popular culture
Assistant Professor of English and Gender Studies
USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Contact at: (213) 740-2817 or tongson@usc.edu
Expertise:
- sexuality in the suburbs
- race in the suburbs
- Filipino & Filipino-American pop music
- suburban-themed films and TV
- queer and LGBT popular culture
- women in popular music
- Filipinos in theater and television
- queer and LGBT popular music
- queer performance
- pop music and pop culture in the 1980s
- gay and lesbian gentrification in urban areas
- musical theater
- Southern California subcultures
- pop culture
- reality TV and current TV shows
- politics
- Inland Empire youth cultures
- American Idol
- Queer and LGBT lifestyle and travel
- gay and lesbian politics
- comparative ethnic literature
- Victorian literature and contemporary adaptations
- Author of RELOCATIONS (forthcoming) about race and sexuality in the Southern California suburbs
- Co-founder and regular contributor to the pop culture webzine Oh! Industry
Foreign Languages:
German, Tagalog
More:
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http://college.usc.edu/faculty/faculty1008230.html
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