Description
- Abstract:
- In this interview Hunter Hargraves, Brown University class of 2015, discusses his experience of living through the COVID-19 pandemic in Los Angeles, California. Hargreaves begins by discussing where he was when he first heard about the COVID-19 virus and talks about how it affected his teaching at California State University Fullerton (CSUF). He explains the effects the stay at home order had on his students and himself. He describes how social distancing changed the way people gathered outside and in nature in the Los Angeles area. He speaks to how the pandemic changed people’s media consumption and how shows, movies, and streaming services were helping to create cultural connections despite social distancing. He addresses the news media culture and how he sees overlap between media scandals and the melodrama of reality television shows. Hargreaves also discusses how social distancing affected perspectives on intimacy and sex. He describes what about the pandemic has been most difficult for him and how he hopes future generations will look back on the pandemic.
- Notes:
- Biographical/historical note: Hunter Hargraves received his Ph.D in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University in 2015 and is currently a Professor at California State University Fullerton (CSUF). His research and teaching traverses the intersections of affect, performance, and representation within television and digital pop cultural studies including queer film and television. Hargraves’ first book, Uncomfortable Television (Duke University Press, 2023), explores the turn to discomfort in early-21st Century American television.
- Class year: 2015
- Hunter Hargraves, class of 2015 Ph.D., Brown University Library
- Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
Citation
"Hunter Hargraves, class of 2015 Ph.D."
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:dkattgrm/
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Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
This collection contains oral history interviews with alumnae of Brown University, which admitted its first women students in 1891. The Women's College at Brown was renamed Pembroke College in 1928, and in 1971, Pembroke College merged with the Men's College …...