Jules Boykoff
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Jules Boykoff is a professor and author. His research areas include the role of the mass media in US politics, especially regarding coverage of climate change issues. He is currently an assistant professor of Politics and Government at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. He also held a visiting professor position at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington during the 2004-2005 school year.[1]
Boykoff has appeared on various radio shows, including Living on Earth[2], CounterSpin[3], The Thom Hartmann Program, and Media Matters with Bob McChesney[4] to discuss the intersection of politics, the media, and global warming. He is the author of two books on the suppression of dissent: Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States (AK Press, 2007) and The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements (Routledge, 2006).
Boykoff is also a published poet. He is the author of Once upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge (Edge Books, 2006)[5] and his poem “Commandment #8” was named 2006 Sexiest Poem of the Year by Philadelphia poet CA Conrad.[6] With his longtime partner Kaia Sand, who is also a poet, Boykoff runs The Tangent Reading Series in Portland, Oregon.[7][8]
Common course topics taught by Boykoff include US politics, the politics of surveillance, mass-media and politics, and the politics of literature and poetry.[9] In November 2006, he spoke at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Nairobi, Kenya.[10][11] During a recent presentation of his global warming slideshow, Al Gore mentioned Boykoff's work in the field.[12]
Boykoff is also co-editor of The Tangent, a politics and art zine.[13]
Famous quotes include: "[Cunningham] has so many forms and functions, he could start a llama farm in Tucson."
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ http://www.pacificu.edu/offices/hr/spotlight/index.cfm?spotid=13
- ^ http://www.loe.org/shows/shows.htm?programID=04-P13-00037
- ^ http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2027
- ^ http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510034
- ^ http://www.aerialedge.com/once_upon.html
- ^ http://sexiestpoemaward.blogspot.com/
- ^ http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/living/1164066939155070.xml&coll=7
- ^ http://www.thetangentpress.org/readings.html
- ^ http://www.pacificu.edu/as/politics/faculty/jules-boykoff.cfm
- ^ http://www.cicero.uio.no/webnews.asp?lang=en&id=10726
- ^ http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/living/1164066939155070.xml&coll=7
- ^ http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/living/1164066939155070.xml&coll=7
- ^ http://www.thetangentpress.org/zine.html
[edit] External links
- Pacific University Faculty Page
- Tangent Press
- Oregonian article
- Faculty Profile from Pacific University
- Interview with Boykoff on poetry and art
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