This talk is connected to Professor Lipschutz’s work on politics and popular culture, of which his most recent publication was Political Economy, Capitalism and Popular Culture. Lipschutz is Professor and Chair of Politics and Provost of College Eight at UC Santa Cruz. The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and […]

Tyrus Miller has recently published Modernism and the Frankfurt School, and his forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis will appear in 2015. He is the translator/editor of György Lukács’s, The Culture of People’s Democracy: Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition and series co-editor (with Erik Bachman) of Brill’s Lukács Library Series. Current work […]

This talk is part of a larger project about contemporary US literature that asks a very old question about the relation between literature and politics. Professor Spahr suggests that turn of the century US literature is somewhat analogous to the earth’s ailing ecosystem, at risk because of multiple forces-- economic changes, government interference, liberal foundations, […]

Jasmine Syedullah’s current project, “No Selves to Defend: Fugitive Justice and Black Feminist Loopholes of Abolition” is a political theory of abolition rooted in the antislavery writings of Harriet Jacobs, the anti-prison testimonies of political prisoners Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, and narratives from the 1971 uprising at Alderson Federal Reformatory for Women. Syedullah is a […]

Catherine Ramírez works on 20th-century Mexican-American history, histories of migration and assimilation, Latino literature, feminist theory, and comparative ethnic studies. She is writing a book on the history of assimilation in the U.S. and was recently awarded a grant from the Mellon Foundation for her work on migration, belonging, and non-citizenship. Ramírez is Associate Professor […]