The Center for Cultural Studies presents Jonathan Beecher Jonathan Beecher’s current project consists of linked essays on writers who witnessed and wrote about the first months of the French revolution of 1848, some familiar, others less so. The central question: How do these writers explain the collapse of the radical dreams that inspired revolutionaries in 1848? […]

The Center for Cultural Studies presents B. Ruby Rich. Ruby Rich is the author of New Queer Cinema. Her new research explores notions of the public as constituted by theatrical exhibition from the postwar era to century’s end. As editor of Film Quarterly, she is currently preparing dossiers on the films of Eduardo Coutinho and […]

The Center for Cultural Studies presents Aaron Benanav. Aaron Benanav’s current research examines the global forces giving rise to both an oversupply of labor and an underdemand for labor, worldwide. He has developed a theory of “surplus populations” to explain the consequences of persistently slack labor markets for working people, who have to work even […]

The Center for Cultural Studies presents Beléna Bistué. In the context of her larger project on early modern collaborative and multilingual translation, Belén Bistué is currently looking at specific instances in which these practices, together with their underlying conceptual models, were adapted to the colonial Spanish American context.   Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: January […]

The Center for Cultural Studies, in partnership with Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, Kresge College, and Porter College, presents Nathaniel Mackey. Acclaimed poet Nathaniel Mackey’s recent work encompasses three ongoing, decades-long projects: the serial poems Song of the Andoumboulou and "Mu," and the serial novel or series of novels From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, whose fifth […]