Laura Goldblatt
Biographic Data
| ID | 151667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Goldblatt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldblatt |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDBLATT L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-0518-3970 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Humanity Ground Zero
Postage stamps are sites of nationalist imagery, produced continuously by the US government since 1847. Over time, a limited group of people deemed worthy of representing the nation on stamps—white male politicians and military heroes—was diversified to include different kinds of persons: women, Native Americans, African Americans, and people in the arts, sciences, athletics, and entertainment. This paper focuses on a singular exception to this i…
The Eagle, the Rocket, and the Moon
In this Photoarticle, we survey what we will call the post-historical U.S. postage stamps of the last third of the twentieth century. We focus on stamps depicting the space race and space travel, as well as the linkage of some of those stamps to the 1992 Olympic games, to analyze the iconographic and narrative consequences of an increasing turn toward the commercialization of postal services. The stamps we consider coincide with a series of new c…
Pray for Peace but Fight Your Insect Enemies
In this essay, we examine "slogan cancels"-postal messages used to deface or "kill" a stamp-produced and disseminated on U.S. mail during the early Cold War. Slogan cancels, like postage stamps, afford spaces the state, through its postal service, can use to send messages to a mass public. While stamps celebrate national identity, slogans instruct citizens how to behave. In the Cold War, such instructions often concerned impending disasters and t…
Unprofessional
This article analyzes the case of Avital Ronell, Amy Hungerford's response to striking Yale graduate students, and higher education funding to argue that such instances illustrate the precise features of rampant professionalization—its pressures, demands, and imperatives—in the midst of the radical transformation of the material conditions that first produced its practices. Despite the increasingly limited ability for faculty to determine how the…
Toward a New National Iconography
This study of fourteen US postage stamps between 1863 and 1922 analyzes images of American Indians in US national iconography. Beginning with a generic image of a native warrior that was rejected by the post office at a time when the Indian wars were still ongoing and ending with a portrait of an important Lakota leader incorporated into a 1922 stamp series, we show how the changing relationship of Native Americans to the US government was reflec…
The University Must Be Defended
Research Article| September 01 2016 The University Must Be Defended!: Safe Spaces, Campus Policing, and University-Driven Gentrification Bennett Carpenter; Bennett Carpenter Duke University [email protected] Bennett Carpenter is a PhD candidate in literature at Duke, where his research focuses on population, representation, and the city novel. He has published in edited volumes on Walter Benjamin (forthcoming) and the Dutch playwright J…
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The University Must Be Defended
Research Article| September 01 2016 The University Must Be Defended!: Safe Spaces, Campus Policing, and University-Driven Gentrification Bennett Carpenter; Bennett Carpenter Duke University [email protected] Bennett Carpenter is a PhD candidate in literature at Duke, where his research focuses on population, representation, and the city novel. He has published in edited volumes on Walter Benjamin (forthcoming) and the Dutch playwright J…
Toward a New National Iconography
This study of fourteen US postage stamps between 1863 and 1922 analyzes images of American Indians in US national iconography. Beginning with a generic image of a native warrior that was rejected by the post office at a time when the Indian wars were still ongoing and ending with a portrait of an important Lakota leader incorporated into a 1922 stamp series, we show how the changing relationship of Native Americans to the US government was reflec…
Pray for Peace but Fight Your Insect Enemies
In this essay, we examine "slogan cancels"-postal messages used to deface or "kill" a stamp-produced and disseminated on U.S. mail during the early Cold War. Slogan cancels, like postage stamps, afford spaces the state, through its postal service, can use to send messages to a mass public. While stamps celebrate national identity, slogans instruct citizens how to behave. In the Cold War, such instructions often concerned impending disasters and t…
Unprofessional
This article analyzes the case of Avital Ronell, Amy Hungerford's response to striking Yale graduate students, and higher education funding to argue that such instances illustrate the precise features of rampant professionalization—its pressures, demands, and imperatives—in the midst of the radical transformation of the material conditions that first produced its practices. Despite the increasingly limited ability for faculty to determine how the…
The Eagle, the Rocket, and the Moon
In this Photoarticle, we survey what we will call the post-historical U.S. postage stamps of the last third of the twentieth century. We focus on stamps depicting the space race and space travel, as well as the linkage of some of those stamps to the 1992 Olympic games, to analyze the iconographic and narrative consequences of an increasing turn toward the commercialization of postal services. The stamps we consider coincide with a series of new c…
Humanity Ground Zero
Postage stamps are sites of nationalist imagery, produced continuously by the US government since 1847. Over time, a limited group of people deemed worthy of representing the nation on stamps—white male politicians and military heroes—was diversified to include different kinds of persons: women, Native Americans, African Americans, and people in the arts, sciences, athletics, and entertainment. This paper focuses on a singular exception to this i…
History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art history (3 works) · Iconography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · National Identity and Symbolism (2 works)