Welcome to My Scholarship Blog!

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Thank you for checking out the blog! The purpose of this blog is to update you on my scholarship. Updates will come in the form of short posts per scholarly product, meant to give you a sense of its aim(s) and core idea(s). When relevant, links to either a source or its reference will be provided. For topical shortcuts, check out the tags below.

Theoretical Publications Justin Martin Theoretical Publications Justin Martin

Mr. Freeze (2023)

Both of these features [separating moral from nonmoral understandings of social interactions and applying those understandings to complex situations]...are suggested through Mr. Freeze’s motivations to use cryogenics to save and improve people’s lives, his sense of unjust treatment, his sometimes selective use of harm, and his expressions of vulnerability….Therefore…we can learn a little something about ourselves through villains like Mr. Freeze.

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Conference Presentations Justin Martin Conference Presentations Justin Martin

Popular Culture Association (2019, 2021, 2022)

  • Martin, J. (2019, April). Wakanda’s wisdom: Agreement, disagreement, and the complexities of social life.  Paper presented at the forty-ninth annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Washington, D.C.

  • Letizia, A., & Martin, J. (2021, June). From super to civil: What Marvel’s Civil War conflict can teach us about society and freedom.  Paper presented at the fiftieth annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Online.

  • Martin, J. (2022, April). Cold-Hearted: An analysis of Mr. Freeze through the lens of moral development.  Paper presented at the fifty-first annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Online.

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