Shayna Maskell

Shayna Maskell is an Associate Professor in the School of Integrative studies at George Mason University. Her bookPolitics of Sound: The Washington DC Hardcore Scene 1978-1983 (2021) explores how and why cultural forms, such as music, produce and resist politics and power. Her areas of research include popular and youth culture, intersectionality, and social justice. She has previously been published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies and The Journal of Youth and Adolescence, as well as chapters inThe Oxford Handbook of Punk, Beyond the Culture: Black Popular Culture and Social Justice, and Hardcore Research and Punk Politics, among others. Shayna has taught for almost two decades at such institutions as the University of Southern California, California Institute of the Arts, University of Maryland, and Corcoran College of Art and Design, before coming to George Mason. Her classes often focus on intersectionality and the ways in which concepts of self and society are constructed through a multitude of popular texts.