Affiliation

Full Professor,听Department of Art History & Communication Studies (91社区)

Research interests

Urban culture; nightlife; artistic scenes; popular music; social norms and practices; communications; criminality; Canadian film

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Selected publications

鈥淟a prostitu茅e dans la nuit: 茅tude sur la presse 脿 sensation au Qu茅bec, 1942-1960.鈥� Tangence no. 130 (2022), pp. 61-83.

鈥淏undles and mailings: Science fiction fandom and the amateur press association.鈥� DIY, Alternative Cultures & Society, vol. 1, no. 2 (April, 2023)

鈥淎fterword 鈥� Moving forward with Live Music Studies,鈥� Ethnomusicology Review, vol. 24 (2023), pp. 181-185.

鈥淭abloid Porn in Quebec.鈥� Porn Studies, 2022

芦 Syst猫mes d鈥檃rticulation, logiques de changements : communaut茅s et sc猫nes de musiques populaires 禄 (1991) in G茅r么me Guibert and Guillaume Heuguet, eds, Penser les musiques populaires, Paris: Philharmonie de Paris Editions, 2022.

鈥淕athering up the social: Nightlife columns in the African-American press.鈥� Ethnologies, vol. 44, no. 1, 2022.

鈥淯rban Labor and the Cinematic Nocturne.鈥� In Eria Stein, Germaine R. Halegoua and Brendan Kredell, eds. The Routledge Companion to Media and the City. Taylor & Francis, 2022, pp. 100-107.

Straw, Will. "Secret Agents at Expo: The Case of Kommissar X". In Craig Moyes and Steve Palmer, eds., Expo 67 and its World: Staging the Nation in the Crucible of Globalization, 91社区-Queens University Press, 2022.

Straw, Will. "Montreal, Funkytown: Two Decades of Disco History." In Flora Pitrolo, Marko Zubak, eds. Global Dance Cultures in the 1970s and 1980s, Springer, 2022.

Straw, Will. 鈥淩e-Thinking the Spaces of Night-time Sociabilty,鈥� in Irene Gammel and Jason Wang, eds. Creative Resilience and COVID-19, Taylor and Francis, 2022, pp. 166-174.

Straw, Will. 鈥淩hythmanalysis and Circulation,鈥� in Geoff Stahl and Mark Perceval, eds., The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music, Space and Place, 2022, pp 21-29.

Straw, Will. 鈥淭he Pastness of All么 Police.鈥� In Martha Langford and Johanne Sloan, eds. Photogenic Montreal: Activisms and Archives in a Post-Industrial Society, 91社区 Queens University Press, 2021, pp. 199-216.

Straw, Will and Jess Reia, 鈥淣ightlife in a Pandemic,鈥� in Pandemic Societies, eds. Jean-Louis Denis, Catherine R茅gis, and Daniel Weinstock (Montreal: 91社区-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2021), 9-20.

Straw, Will. 鈥淟a noche urbana鈥�. In Alejandro Mercado Celis and Edna Hern谩ndez Gonz谩lez, eds. Noche urbana y econom铆a nocturna en Am茅rica del Norte. M茅xico: CISAN, UNAM, 2021. Translation of 鈥淭he Urban Night.鈥�

Straw, Will. 鈥淪in City: Montreal鈥檚 late, great mid-century journal of vice [on Police Journal].鈥� Canadian Notes & Queries, no. 109 (Spring/summer 2021).

Straw, Will. 鈥淢ontreal Bohemia and the Mile End Apartment Party Scene.鈥� In Norbert Bachleitner and Juliane Werner, eds. Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in Fiction, Brill, 2021, pp. 121-137.

Straw, Will. "Urban labor and the cinematic nocturne ," In B. Kredell, G. Halegoua, & E. Stein, eds., The Routledge Companion to Media and the City . New York: Routledge. Forthcoming, 2021.

Nandor Petrovics (lead), Andreina Seijas (co-lead), Robert Catherall (contrib.), Jess Reia (contrib.) and Will Straw (contrib.). 鈥�Nighttime Governance in Times of COVID-19: Capacity-Building for Night Mayors and Other Nighttime Governance Institutions鈥�, Global Nighttime Recovery Plan, Vibe Lab, 2020-2021.

Luc Gwiazdzinski and Will Straw听(eds.). "Nuits et montagnes/Nights and mountains",听Journal of Alpine Research/Revue de g茅ographie alpine, vol. CVI, no. 1, 2018.

Straw, Will., Anouk B茅langer and Annie G茅rin (eds.).听Formes urbaines : circulation, stockage et transmission de l鈥檈xpression culturelle 脿 Montr茅al, Montr茅al, Esse, 2014.

Craciela Martinez-Zalce,听Will Straw听and Susana Vargas.听Aprehendiendo al delincuente : crimen y medios en Am茅rica del norte, Mexico / Montr茅al, CISAN-UNAM /听Media@91社区, 2011.

Straw, Will., and Alexandra Boutros (eds.).听Circulation and the City: Essays on Urban Culture, Montr茅al, 91社区-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2010.

Straw, Will.,听and Erin Hurley.听Qu茅bec Studies, vol. XXXIII, n掳 48, 2009-2010.

Straw, Will.听Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America, New York, PPP Publications / Andrew Roth Gallery, 2006.