Margaret Schwartz

Margaret Schwartz is associate professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. Her book _Dead Matter: The Meaning of Iconic Corpses_ (University of Minnesota Press, 2015) illustrates how structural inequalities like racism and sexism figure in the work of mourning. A post on the Press's blog relating the book's argument to the Laquan McDonald shooting is <a href="http://www.uminnpressblog.com/2016/01/mourning-what-matters-on-david-bowie.html">here</a>. Her work is also available at <a href="http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol2/iss1/1/">Communication +1</a> and <a href="http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+horror+of+something+to+see%3A+celebrity+%22vaginas%22+as+prostheses.-a0194279239">Genders</a>.