Abstract: As economies and cultures morph due to technoscience, vampire entities also mutate so as to still provoke fear ‒their bodies change, their populations grow and their networks expand; yet the way to annihilate them becomes less obvious. Responding to these modern day changes, Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s television series The Strain (2014-2017) uncannily echoes, or perhaps foreshadows, the social realities under an informational, networked, and epidemiological paradigm. The filmmakers here present viewers with hybrid monsters and environments that are highly interconnected and pathogenic, reflecting contemporary social fears regarding failing democracies and global pandemics. Drawing from Guillermo del Toro’s recent television collaborations, this article examines how twenty-first century vampiric bodies comment on a society altered by informational and technoscientific labyrinths. The labyrinths analyzed here, and the bodies hidden within them, are presented as looming threats that may destroy democracies in order to institute a totalitarian regime. Profitdriven institutions and governments, beholden to ominous masters in a more global and interrelated economy, invite malevolent actors who are allowed to dominate, exploit, and kill everyday citizens.

Abstract: During the late 1980s, World Wrestling Federation star Hulk Hogan embarked on a career as a Hollywood movie star, through roles in several modestly-budgeted films produced by New Line Cinema. Building on recent examinations of “celebrity migration” between fields and studies of “promotional culture”, we explore how Hogan’s celebrity persona adapted to various economies and structures of fame in a changing media marketplace. This article explores how Hogan negotiated of codes and conventions of different popular cultural fields and media sub-fields. By doing so, we identify key tensions in the wrestler’s celebrity image during the late 1980s and early 1990s and reflect on the difficulties celebrities face when trying to become film stars.

Abstract: This project examines the relationship between transnational Indigeneity and effectuate trauma in Linda Hogan’s People of the Whale (2008). The novel’s protagonist, Thomas Just, endures trauma that emerges from a transnational adoption narrative, which complicates notions of raceand place-based conceptions of selfhood. To analyze Thomas’s production of identity, I look to Kevin Bruyneel’s The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.–Indigenous Relations (2007) and Mark Jerng’s Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging (2010). Through these lenses, I interrogate the onto-epistemological boundaries that complicate Thomas’s ability to exist in more than one culture and topological community at once. Thomas’s identity exists in and of a metaphysical and sociopolitical “elsewhere” that, although is of two places, is not confined in these physical places and further prevents him from wholly re-integrating into the two communities in which he was once a part. INDEX WORDS: Adoption, Native American, Heterotopology, Indigenous, Transnationalism, Trauma EMERGENCE ELSEWHERE: THIRD SPACE IN LINDA HOGAN’S PEOPLE OF THE WHALE

Abstract: This essay discusses Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit as environmental risk narrative. The novel contributes to the literary history of oil in the United States by exploring from a risk perspectiv...

Abstract: Daniel Hogan’s (1942/2010) academic production and attitudes are still crucial to understand the relationship between population and environment in rural Brazil, especially with regard to great migrations, accelerated urbanization and their effects on the environment. These contributions appear in studies which have analyzed silences, and thus created innovative analytical perspectives that strengthened the ability to filter techniques in order to guide studies.

Abstract: This is the companion interview to the “data and school nursing” articles series, sharing practical examples of how frontline school nurses use data. This interview is with Janis Hogan who shares h...

Abstract: This paper disrupts the Euro Americans’ environmental colonialist discourse which involves the practices of racist policies that result in the relocation of the Native Americans to a confinement called reservation. More specifically, it discusses this relocation which is termed as zoning as a dilemma for the Natives because this practice by the Euro Americans, which is primarily involves their economic agenda, not only restricts the Natives to their reservation and denies life opportunities for them but puts the responsibility of their plight on themselves. A qualitative content analysis, the research explores this idea in Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit in the light of the joint critique of environmental racism and critical discourse analysis. Linguistically, the study applies critical discourse analysis focusing on van Dijk’s concept of discourse and manipulation. The analysis reveals that the discursive and cognitive strategies employed by the Euro Americans for the zoning of the Natives help the former rationalize and legitimize their environmental colonial practices. The discursive process first involves the creation of “othering” and then the tactful presentation of this “othering”. The study also highlights the counter actions taken by the Natives on the basis of the same or similar strategies as have been employed against them, to resist their zoning.

Abstract: This paper offers an ecocritical and narrative reading of a selection of poems from both Harjo and Hogan. It explores native American legacy and their sense of hope and revival expressed in their poetry. The selection of poems discussed in this paper expands our understanding of narrative, with its plot, time and perspective as basic constituents and how it gives way to multi-focality, timelessness and blurring of main and marginal in the plot covering both anthropocentric and biocentric perspectives without overlooking issues of representation, human cognition and multiple levels of agency. Adopting ecocritical and narrative approaches relocates nature and spirituality, with focus on water symbols, in the centre of artistic expression not overlooking stylistic and textual properties at the representation of human consciousness. Forms of artistic expression offer to expand the oral-tradition and legacy of Native Americans yet in “English” and poetic form.

Abstract: Cultural diffusion and the conjoining of cultural streams have characterized history and prehistory from their inception. In the Southwest, first the Spanish and then the Anglo-Americans both intentionally and inadvertently wrought changes which have transformed many aspects of native culture. The building of conical pole-and-brush shelters based on tripod foundations was brought to the Southwest by the migrating pre-Navajo. Refugee Puebloans settling among the Navajo in the 1690s began building small stone-and-mud masonry pueblos. Navajos may have participated in some of Modern Anglo-American frame house construction, and circular masonry structures fairly called stone hogans had appeared by the early eighteenth century. The conjunction of elements from at least four major cultural traditions created a set of unique dwelling types unequivocably and exclusively identifiable with one of those cultural traditions. Probably the essential condition of "hogan-ness" is the structure's being uniquely Navajo. Most hogan types are essentially unique.

Abstract: It was a pleasure to read Dr. Andrew Hogan’s article on the social and medical models of disability.[1][1] As someone who works at the intersections of public health, disability studies, gender studies and psychology, I was delighted to see Dr. Hogan’s eloquent summary of the history of the

Abstract: When I first wrote about the body in relation to the signals emitted by our electromagnetic gadgets, I was tentative (Mel Hogan 2018). I worried about contributing media scholarship that either exa...

Abstract: Another important aspect about children’s tolerance judgements is whether they can support and justify their tolerant stance Kuhn argues that a person’s beliefs are the source from which decisions and judgements are made (1991, 2002). The question is, do young children hold underlying beliefs which they can call on to support their tolerant and intolerant judgements. As mentioned earlier there is a paucity of research about young children’s conceptualisation of tolerance and acceptance of others who are different. However, two studies (Hogan, 2002; Witenberg, 2007) have investigated the kind of justifications and underlying beliefs young children express in support of tolerance. The studies found that appeal to the principle of fairness predominated their responses with occasional appeal to empathy.

Abstract: Abstract:Given the recent struggle at Standing Rock and the ever-growing threat of climate change, examining the cultural and political narratives that enable these crises has become increasingly pressing. Therefore, as a contribution to discussions around Indigenous sovereignty and environ-mental justice, this article draws on Hogan’s novel to show how colonizing representations work to perpetuate trauma—revealing diverse traumas as linked, intergenerational, and tied to stories. To counter these threats, the novel employs formal strategies to construct alternative representations that promote healing by uncovering links between trauma to situated (racialized/gendered) bodies and the environment and by proffering “new stories” that recognize the living agency of the more-than-human world. Drawing parallels between the extractive and representational histories of James Bay and Standing Rock/DAPL, the article analyzes maps and cultural narratives alongside the novel to demonstrate how these representations justify violence against Indigenous peoples and lands based on ethnic and speciesist hierarchies. Ultimately, it is argued, Hogan creates a multivocal ceremonial form of storytelling modeled on healing and mourning rituals designed to reintegrate the individual into a more-than-human living community and to redistribute responsibility for ethical trauma responses among a wider alliance public, functions increasingly relevant to current struggles for environmental and climate justice.

Abstract: “Well-being is that positive sense of self, spirit and belonging that we feel when our cognitive, emotional, social and physical needs are being met” (Ontario’s Well-being Strategy for Education). Student well-being is one of the greatest challenges facing universities today (Whiteside, Bould, Tsey, Venville, Cadet-James & Morris, 2017), as for many students the transition from high school to university is difficult (Conley, 2007; Kantanis, 2000; Krause, 2005; Kuh, 2009; Parker, Summerfeldt, Hogan & Majeski, 2004; Pritchard & Wilson, 2003). According to the 2017 National College Health Assessment, “in the last 12 months, 20.5% felt very lonely, 60.9% felt overwhelming anxiety, 21.6% diagnosed with anxiety, and 17.8% diagnosed with depression” (American College Health Association). Student anxiety has become so prevalent that many are saying that we live in an “age of anxiety” (Twenge, 2000). Many factors have been connected to this increase in student anxiety levels including smartphone addiction, social media use, the high school education system, over-protective parents, the rising cost of education, uncertain job market, alcohol and drug use, unhealthy eating, and a lack of social support (Andrews & Wilding, 2004; Hefner & Eisenberg, 2009; Jones, Park & Lefevor, 2018; Lepp, Barkley & Karpinski, 2014; Turkle, 2017; Twenge, 2000; Wilcox, Winn & Fyvie‐Gauld, 2005). However, this paper will argue that also contributing to negative well-being is increasing "existential anxiety.” Existentialism has been described as a way to interpret the predicament or dilemma of people in modern society and the resulting anxiety and anguish (Collins, 1952; May, 1959). Golomb (1995: 200) notes, “the existential question today is not whether to be or not to be, but how one can become what one truly is.” Existentialism focuses on creation of the self, argues that human meaning is subjective, and emphasizes that the goal of human existence is the meaningful or authentic life. According to Existentialism, anxiety is a natural state due to the freedom to choose our lives, and choices around education and careers are much more complex as the world of work is unpredictable and continually changing. Today’s higher education students are struggling not only with a myriad of educational and career choices, but also choices regarding beliefs, values, and ultimately, the challenges of living a meaningful life. Understanding how the resulting existential anxiety is affecting students is essential if we are to address the challenges of student well-being. The full paper will discuss the state of student well-being, explain the problem of existential anxiety a