It doesn’t sound all that exciting: another college student writing about Homer’s odyssey – until you realize this trip ends not with Penelope in Ithaca, but with Apu at the Kwik-E-Mart. Credit Steven Keslowitz, a Brooklyn College sophomore who turned his Sunday night obsession with The Simpsons into a scholarly study of the Springfield scene, ruminating on subjects from Bart’s bad boy persona to Marge’s towering ‘do. In The Simpsons and Society, Keslowitz fixes a serious eye on America’s favourite dysfunctional cartoon crew, looking for deeper meaning in the antics of Krusty, Chief Wiggum and the rest of the townsfolk. He actually finds some, too. “I’ve been watching the show for years,” said Keslowitz, a Simpsons geek who never misses an episode of the Emmy-award winning show. “In college, I realized the show had academic issues that merited serious attention.” Read More >>>
