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Stacy Thompson, Ph.D.

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Department of English
4121 Centennial Hall
105 Garfield Ave
P.O. Box 4004
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
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Biography

Biography

Stacy Thompson joined the English Department in 2002.  He has taught and published on the following topics:

  • Psychoanalysis
  • Historical Materialism
  • Ethics
  • "Chick Flicks"
  • Black US Cinema
  • Rhetorics of Rap
  • Punk Rock
  • Microethics
  • Interpassivity
  • Soccer

 

Education

Education

  • Ph.D., Purdue University (English - Theory and Cultural Studies Program)
  • M.A., Northeastern University (English)
  • B.A., University of Michigan (English)
Teaching and Research Interests

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Psychoanalysis
  • Film Studies
  • Ethics
  • Historical Materialism
Published Research

Published Research

The Interpassivity of Pickup Soccer, Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, 29.2 (March 2024): 301-311.  (article)

Death, Illusion and the Hijab in Susan Seidelmans Cut in Half in ReFocus: The Films of Susan Seidelman, Ed. Susan Santha Kerns.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023: 205-220. (book chapter)

On the Interpassivity of Collecting,"  The Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, 25.4 (August 2020): 652-669 (article)

A Disney Death: Coco, Black Panther, and the Limits of the Afterlife in The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature, Eds. W. Michelle Wang et al., New York: Routledge, 2020. (book chapter)

Benjamin, Badiou, Becker: Messianic Time and the Event in Goodbye Lenin and Madison.The Minnesota Review, Fall 2018. (article)

The Micro-ethics of Everyday Life: Ethics, Ideology and Anti-consumerism. Cultural Studies, 26.4 (Winter, 2012). (article)

Ethics Not Happiness: A House is Not a Holmes. Symploke, 19.1-2 (2012): 269-287. (article)

The Dude and the New Left in The Years Work in Lebowski Studies, Eds. Edward Comentale and Aaron Jaffe.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009: 124-148. (book chapter)

Consumer Ethics in Thank You for SmokingFilm-Philosophy, 13.1 (2009): 53-67. (article)

The Business of Death: Death and Utopia on TV.  Utopian Studies, 17.2 (December 2006): 491-514.  (article)

Tentative Utopias, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 10.3 (December 2005): 269-285. (article)

Punk Cinema in Post-Punk Cinema, Ed. Nicholas Rombes, Edinburgh: U of Edinburgh Press, 2005.  (essay/book chapter)

Dogme 95 in Phillips, William.  Film: An Introduction, 3/e.  New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2005: 332-336. (late draft of a brief section)

Crass Commodities, Popular Music and Society, 27.3 (2004): 307-322. (article)

Punk Productions: Unfinished Business.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2004. (book)

Punk Cinema, Cinema Journal, 43. 2 (Winter 2004): 47-66. (article)

Organizing the Cynics, the minnesota review, 55-57 (Fall 2003): 295-302. (article)

Punks Not Dead, the minnesota review, 52-53 (Spring 2001): 299-307. (review essay)

Market Failure: Punk Economics, Early and Late, College Literature (Spring 2001): 48-64. (article)

The South, Alaska Quarterly Review (Spring and Summer 1991): 35-39. (short story)