Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Dr. Blaine teaches in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies where she also serves as Director of Undergradute Studies. Her research and publications examine representations of death in media, including analysis of corpses in advertising, literature, news, films and television. Besides thanatology, Blaine studies other representations of gender and the body, including abortion, yoga, and celebrity. For better or worse, she sees everything through the lens of mortality.
Nov 02, 2023 12:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Death may be inevitable and universal, but the ways people deal with it most certainly are not. Whether doing Tibetan Buddhist sky burials, attending a graveside service dressed in black or putting ones parents ashes in...