To read the complete text of an article, click on the highlighted words. The University Press of Kansas, about to publish an open-minded book on U.F.O.'s, prepares to duck. It's called an interrobang, and it conveys incredulity, explains Mark D. Harmon, an assistant professor of broadcasting at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. The author of the Harry Potter books received an honorary degree from her alma mater, in Britain. It's called an interrobang, and it conveys incredulity, explains Mark D. Harmon, an assistant professor of broadcasting at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Some critics see the intrusion of pop culture into scholarship as a bad thing.