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This week, Aaron chats with T.H.M. Gellar-Goad, a UNC alum now teaching at Wake Forest. Gellar-Goad’s new book is “Masks,” which explores the widely varying roles that masks have played in culture, both past and present and all around the world. (Gellar-Goad says it’s the first book-length exploration of masks as a concept since the COVID pandemic, when masking very suddenly became extremely common.) The book explores six different aspects of masking (“make-believe, magic, memory, metamorphosis, mirror, and medicine”), each of which can take on many different forms – even diametrically opposed forms, at the same time in the same place, with a host of cultural and political implications as well.
“Masks” was published in 2024 by Punctum Books. Click here for more on the book; you can download a free PDF or purchase a physical copy.
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