Olivia Stowell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3496497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olivia Stowell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olivia |
| FAMILY NAME | Stowell |
| SIGNATURE | STOWELL O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-9566-4274 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
You’re like the cute harmless version of QAnon”
This article takes the online subculture Gaylor (theories speculating that pop star Taylor Swift is queer and encodes queer themes in her music and persona) as a case study to argue that the style, tropes, and aesthetic vernaculars of conspiracy theorizing have dispersed into other social arenas without maintaining the wide-ranging scale of conspiracy theorizing proper, creating what I term “microconspiracies.” By engaging in non-participant obse…
The Generic Closet
Review of: The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom , Alfred L. Martin, Jr (2021) Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 242 pp., ISBN 978-0-25305-458-6, h/bk, $80.00 ISBN 978-0-25305-459-3, p/bk, $25.00
Re-heating the "First" Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving-themed episodes of cooking television open up questions about the interrelations of food, history, power, and culture. This study addresses such questions through textual and thematic analysis of 46 Thanksgiving-themed episodes of reality cooking competition programmes on US cable TV, exploring how the Thanksgiving episode operates as a site for the deployment of the culinary as a category by which the past is re/created. I argue tha…
“It’s Top Chef , not a personality contest”
This article explores the intersections of racial identity performance, culinary style, and neoliberal logics within reality cooking television. By close reading the performance and evaluation of Top Chef: New York contestant Carla Hall, this article argues that reality cooking competitions depend on a grammar of stereotype in order to transform contestants into characters, and the contestants both acquiesce to and resist these preconceived notio…
There’s Certainly a Lot of History Here, But We’re Here to Roast Oysters
By analyzing the discursive and visual content of Charleston’s premiere’s elimination challenge, which required two chefs to cook head-to-head at a plantation, this article outlines how race shapes the action of Top Chef both overtly and covertly, emerging as an organizing factor for the program as a whole. Charleston’s premiere episode illuminates how history is repackaged into popular discursive and material formations, while also suggesting th…
You’re like the cute harmless version of QAnon”
This article takes the online subculture Gaylor (theories speculating that pop star Taylor Swift is queer and encodes queer themes in her music and persona) as a case study to argue that the style, tropes, and aesthetic vernaculars of conspiracy theorizing have dispersed into other social arenas without maintaining the wide-ranging scale of conspiracy theorizing proper, creating what I term “microconspiracies.” By engaging in non-participant obse…
There’s Certainly a Lot of History Here, But We’re Here to Roast Oysters
By analyzing the discursive and visual content of Charleston’s premiere’s elimination challenge, which required two chefs to cook head-to-head at a plantation, this article outlines how race shapes the action of Top Chef both overtly and covertly, emerging as an organizing factor for the program as a whole. Charleston’s premiere episode illuminates how history is repackaged into popular discursive and material formations, while also suggesting th…
“It’s Top Chef , not a personality contest”
This article explores the intersections of racial identity performance, culinary style, and neoliberal logics within reality cooking television. By close reading the performance and evaluation of Top Chef: New York contestant Carla Hall, this article argues that reality cooking competitions depend on a grammar of stereotype in order to transform contestants into characters, and the contestants both acquiesce to and resist these preconceived notio…
There’s Certainly a Lot of History Here, But We’re Here to Roast Oysters
By analyzing the discursive and visual content of Charleston’s premiere’s elimination challenge, which required two chefs to cook head-to-head at a plantation, this article outlines how race shapes the action of Top Chef both overtly and covertly, emerging as an organizing factor for the program as a whole. Charleston’s premiere episode illuminates how history is repackaged into popular discursive and material formations, while also suggesting th…
The Generic Closet
Review of: The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom , Alfred L. Martin, Jr (2021) Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 242 pp., ISBN 978-0-25305-458-6, h/bk, $80.00 ISBN 978-0-25305-459-3, p/bk, $25.00
Re-heating the "First" Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving-themed episodes of cooking television open up questions about the interrelations of food, history, power, and culture. This study addresses such questions through textual and thematic analysis of 46 Thanksgiving-themed episodes of reality cooking competition programmes on US cable TV, exploring how the Thanksgiving episode operates as a site for the deployment of the culinary as a category by which the past is re/created. I argue tha…
You’re like the cute harmless version of QAnon”
This article takes the online subculture Gaylor (theories speculating that pop star Taylor Swift is queer and encodes queer themes in her music and persona) as a case study to argue that the style, tropes, and aesthetic vernaculars of conspiracy theorizing have dispersed into other social arenas without maintaining the wide-ranging scale of conspiracy theorizing proper, creating what I term “microconspiracies.” By engaging in non-participant obse…
Art (4 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · Media, Gender, and Advertising (2 works) · Music History and Culture (2 works) · Political science (2 works)