Alphonso Juries, Ph.D. rocks out to the Bee Gees, the full catalog, and prays secular novenas to his in-home shrine to Jackie Wilson for the resurrection of four-piece disco. A dynamo in the classroom, Juries teaches writers of all levels at a Midwestern university.
This work is part of a larger ethnography of scars, one that addresses the intersection medicine, religion, and body politics in (among other places) Nebraska.
