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machadoisabel Feb 24, 2023

The latest issue of the Journal of Festive Studies: Film Festivals: Close-up on New Research, guest-edited by Emilie Cheyroux is out.
https://journals.h-net.org/jfs
#CelebrationStudies
#festivestudies
#histodons
#film
#filmstudies
#filmfestivals

Journal of Festive Studies

machadoisabel Nov 29, 2022

Re-posting so I can pin it here in the new profile. 🥳
My first book "Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile" is available for pre-order in the US:
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Carnival-in-Alabama
and Canada:
https://www.ubcpress.ca/carnival-in-alabama

#histodons
#CarnivalInAlabama
#Carnival
#USSouth
#USHistory
#BlackHistory
#Alabama
#QueerHistory
#InventedTraditions
#CelebrationStudies

Carnival in Alabama

Mobile is simultaneously a typical and unique city in the postwar United States. It was a quintessential boomtown during World War II. That prosperity was followed by a period of rapid urban decline and ...

machadoisabel Nov 22, 2022

Hi #histodons #anthropology #academics #tourism scholars, #geographers, #publichistory #party studies, #celebrationstudies, #festivestudies folks, #independentscholars. The deadline to submit a contribution for our "Party Tourism" CfP is next week!
https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/contributed-files/2jfspdf.pdf

machadoisabel Nov 22, 2022

Re-introducing myself since I moved to a new server.
I am a cultural historian whose work often crosses national and disciplinary boundaries. I specialize in the fields of Gender & Sexuality and Celebration Studies, and I am particularly interested in Carnivals and drag competitions.
I am also co-editor of the Journal of Festive Studies

#introductions
#histodons
#CulturalHistorian
#QueerHistory
#Performance
#drag
#Festivity
#Carnival
#CelebrationStudies
#Editor