Bisma strongly believes pop culture shapes human lives. She is particularly concerned about the media portrayals of gender, class, race, and sexuality on television, their intersectionality, and ...

Accio, birthday wishes. On Sept. 19, 1979, Hermione Jean Granger was born. Audiences, of course, didn't meet Hermione until J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, when the young ...

Since my first reading nearly a decade ago, my life has been changed by Harry Potter. With my wavy hair, bookish tendencies, and a classroom presence that veered wildly between brown-noser and ...

The Harry Potter series is about a Muggle-born who discovers magical powers, gets accepted to a wizarding school, and spends the next seven years saving the day and defeating evil — and her name is ...