Jersey Shore Academics of the Day: A recent symposium at the University of Chicago brought together professors, students, writers, and scholars from all walks of academic life to discuss and analyze “Jersey Shore Studies.”
Speakers included Brian Moylan of Gawker Media, Ottorino Cappelli from the University of Naples, Alison Hearn of the University of Western Ontario, and Candace Moore from the University of Michigan.
New cast member Deena came up quite frequently in discussion, particularly in regards to the time she managed to keep the Situation from taking home twins because she stole one for herself. The New York Times article describes the moment in academic terms: “In the process she became a trickster figure, upending the show’s heteronormativity and its power dynamics.”
One speaker named Ellie Marshall, who once interned for the show’s executive producer, gave a presentation entitled “Bodily Discipline: Foucault + Snooki = BFF.” After she showed a clip of Snooki getting arrested while bystanders watched, the McGill undergraduate argued that it was the audience, not Snooki, that was being arrested and “rendered docile.”
Read more of the New York Times article, check out the conference program, and discuss.
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