Grossberg Lawrence - Cultural Studies

Lawrence Grossberg teaches in the department of Speech Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Its a Sin: Essays on Postmodernity, Politics, and Culture and We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Pop, Politics, and Postmodernity. He has co-edited numerous volumes, including Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, and is co-editor of the journal Cultural Studies.

Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor of English, and founding director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Incarnate Word: Literature as Verbal Space; Our Last First Poets: Vision and History in Contemporary American Poetry, and, most recently, Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory, 19101945 . He is the editor of Theory in the Classroom and the co-editor of several books, including Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture and Edwin Rolfe.

Paula A. Treichler holds joint appointments in the College of Medicine, the Institute for Communications Research, and Womens Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the co-author of A Feminist Dictionary and of Language, Gender, and Professional Writing: Theoretical Approaches and Guidelines for Nonsexist Usage. She is the co-editor of For Alma Mater: Theory and Practice in Feminist Scholarship. She is presently completing AIDS and Culture: An Epidemic of Signification and a book on language and womens literature.

Homi K. Bhabha teaches English at the University of Sussex. He is the editor of Nation and Narration, and publishes widely on postcolonial discourses.

Tony Bennett is Associate Professor at Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia) where he is Dean of Humanities and Director of the Institute for Cultural Policy Studies. He is the editor of Popular Culture and Social Relations (with Kobena Mercer and Janet Woollacott), Popular Television and Film (with Boyd-Bowman, et al.), Culture, Ideology and Social Process (with Martin, et al.), and Popular Fiction: Technology, Ideology, Production, Reading. He is the co-author of Bond and Beyond: The Political Career of a Popular Hero (with J. Woollacott) and the author of Formalism and Marxism and Outside Literature. His forthcoming Show and Tell: The Museum, the Fair and the Exhibition is a study of the museum as a structure of power.

Jody Berland teaches Communications at Concordia University in Montreal. She has published numerous essays on music and technology, radio, television, video, and cultural policies. She is currently writing an historical analysis of the culture of weather, and editing a collection on Canadian culture and cultural studies.

Rosalind Brunt is Director of the Centre for Popular Culture and Principal Lecturer in Communication Studies at the Sheffield City Polytechnic in England. She has co-edited Feminism, Culture and Politics and Silver Linings: Some Strategies for the Eighties. She is on the editorial board of Marxism Today and on the executive committees of the British Association for Cultural Studies and the Association for Media Film and Television Studies in Higher Education.

Angie Chabram-Dernersesian is an activist Chicana scholar born in Monterey, California. Chabram-Dernersesian earned her B.A. at UC Berkeley, and her M.A. and Ph.D. at UC San Diego (1986) and is currently teaching at the University of California at Davis and is a member of MALCS (Active Women in Letters and Social Change). Author of articles in the areas of feminism, ethnography, and criticism, she has recently co-edited a special volume of Cultural Studies on Chicana/o cultural representations which includes her essay Chicana/o Studies as Oppositional Ethnography.

James Clifford is Professor in the History of Consciousness Program, University of California, Santa Cruz. He is co-editor of Writing Culture: The Politics and Poetics of Ethnography and author of The Predicament of Culture.

Douglas Crimp, an art critic and AIDS activist, was coeditor of October for thirteen years and currently teaches gay and lesbian studies at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author of AIDS Demo Graphics (with Adam Rolston), editor of AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism, and coeditor of How Do I Look? Queer Film and Video. A collection of his essays entitled On the Museums Ruins is forthcoming.

Lidia Curti teaches English and cultural studies at the Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples. She studied at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (Birmingham) and translated Richard Hoggarts The Uses of Literacy into Italian. She is the author of a book on Shakespeare in avant-grade theater, is on the editorial board of New Formations (London), and has published various essays on contemporary culture and feminism. She is presently preparing a book on Genre and Gender for Macmillan.

John Fiske is Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin. His books include Reading Television (with John Hartley), Television Culture, Reading the Popular, and Understanding Popular Culture.

Simon Frith is Professor and Research Director of the John Logie Baird Centre and Head of the English Department at Strathclyde University. His books include The Sociology of Rock, Sound Effects, Art into Pop, and Music for Pleasure. He has written music criticism for the Sunday Times (London), the Observer, Scotland on Sunday, and the Village Voice. He has recently edited three collections Facing the Music, World Music, Politics and Social Change, and On Record: The Pop and Rock Reader (with A. Goodwin). He chairs the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.

Paul Gilroy is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex. He is the author of There Aint No Black in the Union Jack.

Henry Giroux is Waterbury Chair in Secondary Education at Pennsylvania State University. His most recent book is Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education.

David Glover teaches in Eugene Lang College at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of The Sociology of the Mass Media and The Sociology of Knowledge. His current book is called Mastering Mystery: The Sexual Politics of Crime Fiction (with Cora Kaplan), and he is also working on The Mechanical and the Artistic: Popular Fiction and the Crisis of Liberalism, a study of British popular culture in the inter-war years.

Jan Zita Grover edits Artpaper in Minneapolis. Her articles on AIDS have appeared in such journals as Afterimage, Christianity & Crisis, In These Times, Jump Cut, October, and The Womens Review of Books.

Catherine Hall is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, Polytechnic of East London. She is co-author of Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 17801850, and is on the collective of Feminist Review.

Stuart Hall, Professor of Sociology at the Open University, was for a decade director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham. He has co-edited many volumes including Culture, Media, Language, Resistance Through Rituals, and most recently, New Times. He has co-authored Policing The Crisis and recently published The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left.

Donna Haraway works in the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she teaches feminist theory, science studies, and womens studies. She is the author of Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology; Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science; and Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature.