{"id":1069,"date":"2021-07-16T19:45:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T19:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2009classnews\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2021-07-16T19:45:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T19:45:19","slug":"lauren-oconnor-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2009classnews\/2021\/07\/16\/lauren-oconnor-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren O&#8217;Connor &#8217;09"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congratulations to Lauren O&#8217;Connor &#8217;09 on her upcoming publication of <em>Robin and the Making of American Adolescence<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Synopsis: Holy adolescence, Batman!\u00a0<em>Robin and the Making of American Adolescence\u00a0<\/em>offers the first character history and analysis of the most famous superhero sidekick, Robin. Debuting just a few months after Batman himself, Robin has been an integral part of the Dark Knight\u2019s history\u2014and debuting just a few months prior to the word \u201cteenager\u201d first appearing in print, Robin has from the outset both reflected and reinforced particular images of American adolescence. Closely reading several characters who have \u201cplayed\u201d Robin over the past eighty years,\u00a0<em>Robin and the Making of American Adolescence<\/em>\u00a0reveals the Boy (and sometimes Girl!) Wonder as a complex figure through whom mainstream culture has addressed anxieties about adolescents in relation to sexuality, gender, and race. This book partners up comics studies and adolescent studies as a new Dynamic Duo, following Robin as he swings alongside the ever-changing American teenager and finally shining the Bat-signal on the latter half of \u201cBatman and\u2014.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is released on August 13th, 2021. You can read more about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutgersuniversitypress.org\/robin-and-the-making-of-american-adolescence\/9781978819795\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rutgersuniversitypress.org\/robin-and-the-making-of-american-adolescence\/9781978819795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Lauren O&#8217;Connor &#8217;09 on her upcoming publication of Robin and the Making of American Adolescence. Synopsis: Holy adolescence, Batman!\u00a0Robin and the Making of American Adolescence\u00a0offers the first character history and analysis of the most famous superhero sidekick, Robin. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2009classnews\/2021\/07\/16\/lauren-oconnor-09\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2009classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2009classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2009classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2009classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2009classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2009classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2009classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2009classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2009classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2009classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}