About Us

Welcome to the Pop Culture Cluster 

The Pop Culture Cluster serves as an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary hub for the evaluation of popular media and its impacts in higher education and beyond and seeks to identify the role of popular culture in illuminating and catalyzing social and political change. In particular. We collaborate with units across campus to foster discourse on popular media through academic and public-facing programming and community-engaged, arts-based research. 

The Pop Culture Cluster is funded by the UBC Comics Studies Cluster in the Public Humanities Hub and the Pop Culture Catalysts: Popular Media for Social Change Research Excellence Cluster.