Breaking Culture Live - TAARN and best practices for International Graduate Students

Here is a link to the document of best practices that Marina Levina and the international graduate students and early career scholars working with TAARN have helped produce. We discuss this at length in the video. https://taarn.org/resources/internati... Dr. Marina Levina is a Professor of Communication in the department of Communication and Film at the University of Memphis. Dr. Levina is a nationally and internationally recognized scholar of critical/cultural studies, media studies, and critical rhetoric. Dr. Levina’s research is focused on critical refugee studies, anti-authoritarian activism and writing, Ukraine and Post-Soviet decolonial studies, and horror/monstrosity studies. She is an expert in critical studies of pandemics and disease and has published extensively on COVID-19. She has published extensively in journals such as Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Television & New Media, Surveillance & Society, and Review of Communication. Dr. Levina is a recipient of numerous national awards, including National Communication Association Robert J. Kibler Memorial Award. She is the editor of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies; the chair of Critical Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association; a co-chair for the Rhetoric Society of America 2026 Conference. She serves on multiple editorial boards, including an advisory board for Surveillance & Society. Breaking Culture Live is a Cultural Studies Association affiliated program hosted by Past President Sean Johnson Andrews. Every Wednesday we spend our lunch hour breaking down the breaking news with cultural studies scholars and activists, discussing their work and how it helps us understand a contemporary event or emergent trend and intervene in making the world a better place. The production of Breaking Culture Live is solely supported by subscribers to the Breaking Culture Substack. So if you appreciate this content, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. https://breakingculture.substack.com/... If you have an interest in participating or nominating someone for participation in a future episode of the program, please fill in this form: https://forms.gle/QaV18ohBjKP4o2n1A Any questions, write us at: breakingculturelive@gmail.com