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JOHN A. DOWELL
Adjunct Faculty
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures; Learning Resources Center
517/355-2363 (office)
teaching and research interests: MSU partnerships with various K-12, community, and non-profit institutions through ATL135; postmodern culture & folk studies; technology literacies/digital life; online representation and (dis)embodiment/bodily ablation; music & popular culture; humor & horror in popular culture/"death comedy" jams; cYBeR studies/holiday & holocaust
course: WRA 135 Writing: Public Life in America
Dowell's recent work and thought has appeared on Detroit's WXYZ-TV, in Grue magazine, in the Encyclopedia of American Popular Beliefs and Superstition, in Salon, in the Journal of Popular Film and Television, and on his mom's refrigerator door.
In addition to playing bass, Dowell has also sold a number of screenplays and video treatments for cold, hard cash.
He received MAs in Folk Studies and Sociology from Western Kentucky University and has nearly completed his (so-far) decade-old multi-volume dissertation on s/laughter: the Relationship Between Humor and Horror in American Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University. Though an Ordained Minister, he's actually pretty much a secular humanist and hard-core determinist; an "optimist with attitude."
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