Lawrence Grossberg

Lawrence Grossberg

Morris Davis Professor of Communication Studies: B.A., University of Rochester (Philosophy and History); Postgraduate studies, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham (UK); Ph.D., Unive rsity of Illinois (Communication Research). Media and Cultural Studies. Dr. Grossberg’s research and teaching interests are: cultural studies; cultural theory; modern and contemporary philosophy; contemporary political cultures; modernities; and (political) economics.

His published books include It’s a Sin: Essays on Postmodernism, Politics and Culture (1988), We Gotta Get Out Of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture (1992), Bringing it All Back Home: Essays on Cultural Studies (1997), Dancing in Spite of Myself: Essays in Popular Culture (1997),Caught in the Crossfire: Kids, Politics and America’s Future (2005), and Cultural Studies in the Future Tense (2010). Grossberg is co-author ofMediaMaking: Mass Media in a Popular Culture (2005) and About Raymond Williams (2010), and co-edited (with Cary Nelson and Paula Treichler) Cultural Studies. He has also published more than one hundred articles and essays.