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Colleen Etman
| Title: | Graduate Student PhD Candidate, Graduate Teaching Assistant |
| Department: | English Language and Literature College of Arts and Sciences |
| Email: | cetman@email.sc.edu |
Pronouns:
She/her
Education:
MA in English (College of Charleston/The Citadel) BA in English, minor in Classics
(College of Charleston)
Field:
Major field in Popular Fiction in/and Culture; Minor field in Adaptation and Transmedia
Studies
Biography:
I study popular culture as literature and the way that the media we consume as a society
reflects cultural values, especially when it comes to the representation of marginalized
groups. Past research has worked with a variety of sub-interests, ranging from romance
fiction to fanfiction, Disney Princess movies to Shakespearean adaptation. I am especially
excited about the opportunity to teach special topics courses on popular culture topics,
such as a previous course in Fanfiction as Literature and an upcoming course in Popular
Mythology, which allow students to view literature in a new and, hopefully, exciting
way. My first article, "The Droids You're Looking For: On Sentience and Servitude
in Star Wars," which focuses on labor rights and droids as an oppressed subclass in
the Star Wars franchise, was published in April 2021 in the Popular Culture Studies
Journal.