You can turn on your TV, you can turn on your radio, you can turn on your video games...but that doesn’t mean you should turn off your brain. Think about your pop culture.
About Us
Pop Culture Academy is a regularly produced podcast, blog and online presence where we talk about pop culture with an academic slant. It is a show where we delve into the inner workings of popular culture. We want this space to house anything and everything we can find that seems like an intersection between pop culture and thinking. News articles on why Judd Nelson doesn’t think anyone should remake The Breakfast Club? Sure. Fancy academic journal articles on what Sesame Street has to say about the evolution of our society over the last fifty years? Why not? Weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth when our favorite 80s singer dies unexpectedly? Maybe.
Have you ever asked yourself why Quintin Tarantino would make not just one, but two movies in a row with historical plotlines that completely violate history? Whether really, if you look at his books closely, we should be reading Dr. Seuss to our kids? Why RVs seem to show up in so many post-apocalyptic films and series [think about it: Revolution, The Walking Dead, and if you think of it as post-apocalyptic, as I do, Breaking Bad]? These are the questions the Pop Culture Academy was invented to ask. I don’t know who wants to know these things exactly besides us. It was our hope in the beginning, it is our hope now, that a lot of people find these kinds of questions not only interesting but entertaining to think about. That they might actually feel thinking about these questions is, well, fun.
Most of all, we want it to be a place for you, thinker-about-pop-culture. We want you to enjoy hanging out here and checking out our content. We want you to offer suggestions for the podcast, for the blog, for the site. We want you to get involved. To get in touch with us, send an Email or find us on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
Have you ever asked yourself why Quintin Tarantino would make not just one, but two movies in a row with historical plotlines that completely violate history? Whether really, if you look at his books closely, we should be reading Dr. Seuss to our kids? Why RVs seem to show up in so many post-apocalyptic films and series [think about it: Revolution, The Walking Dead, and if you think of it as post-apocalyptic, as I do, Breaking Bad]? These are the questions the Pop Culture Academy was invented to ask. I don’t know who wants to know these things exactly besides us. It was our hope in the beginning, it is our hope now, that a lot of people find these kinds of questions not only interesting but entertaining to think about. That they might actually feel thinking about these questions is, well, fun.
Most of all, we want it to be a place for you, thinker-about-pop-culture. We want you to enjoy hanging out here and checking out our content. We want you to offer suggestions for the podcast, for the blog, for the site. We want you to get involved. To get in touch with us, send an Email or find us on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
Origins
Started in 2015 by MK Adkins, Pop Culture Academy was a three-hour weekly radio show on a small-town midwestern college campus where we created curated playlists of music based on a weekly theme and talked about relevant current pop culture news, from movies to TV shows to celebrities. Though we’ve been around – sort of – for four years, we’re still pretty new, in this form at least. And we may be a little small compared to some other places around here. But we think we offer something unique, and with your help we think we can grow. How big? Well, maybe not soooo big. But bigger. And better. So welcome. We hope you stay.
Our Team
MK Adkins has a Ph.D in English that he occasionally uses to think about literature, but more often uses to think about television, music and film. Adkins is the author of two popular culture books as well as numerous articles and reviews. Until recently, he worked as a college professor but made the decision to devote himself full-time to writing and podcasting in January 2019.
Katie Adkins is a fine art and freelance photographer, with expertise in marketing and web design. Originally a native of Atlanta, GA, she graduated from the Savannah College of Art & Design. After spending 8+ years in the midwest, she has now settled back in the South, closer to home.
Katie has worked in the art industry for many years which gives her work a unique, fine art point of view. Her photographic approach involves the use of natural light, documentary/artistic and often candid viewpoints, collaborative ideas with her clients, and minimal post production.
www.katieadkinsphotography.com
Joseph J. Lundquist (goes by J.), self-proclaimed "east coast correspondent" for the Pop Culture Academy, met MK Adkins at the University of Arkansas where J. earned his B.Sc. in Chemistry and later went on to get his Ph.D. from Duke University in Biochemisty studying the Cluster Glycoside Effect (Google it). Dr. J. has always had an ear for music, although he has no musical ability whatsoever.
These days, Dr. J. can be found splitting time between working on bioengineered blood vessels, doing R&D for a local theater company (occasionally acting in productions), gaming or expanding his cosplay activities.
Get In Touch
Let us know what you like, don't like, future show topics, etc. Or, maybe you just want to continue a discussion from one of our podcasts.
We would love to hear directly from you. You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter.
We would love to hear directly from you. You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter.
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