The US election doesn’t just feed pop culture – it is pop culture

13 October 2016

Dr Rodney Taveira
Honours Coordinator and Lecturer in American Studies, United States Studies Centre

Lecturer Rodney Taveira in The Conversation.

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Dr Rodney Taveira
Honours Coordinator and Lecturer in American Studies, United States Studies Centre
Rodney Taveira was awarded his PhD in English from the University of Sydney in 2010 and has published on contemporary American fiction, book reviews, and television, and the interrelation of cinema, photography, painting, and literature. His areas of expertise include American literature, American and European film (silent era to present), US television, comedy in the US, US popular culture, and queer and sexuality studies.

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13 October 2016

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