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arturo escobar , anthropology
lawrence grossberg, communication studies, cultural studies
dorothy holland , anthropology
john pickles, geography
della pollock, communication studies
Main UPCS undergraduate advisors/acting directors (Spring 08):
federico luisetti, romance languages.
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christian lundberg, communication studies
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eric downing, comparative literature
gregory flaxman, english
scott kirsch, geography, UPCS undergraduate director (on leave Spring 08)
della pollock, communication studies
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sue soltis
University Program in Cultural Studies
CB# 3285, 111 Bingham Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3285
Phone: (919) 962.4955
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eric downing
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Eric Downing studied Comparative Literature at Swarthmore College (BA) and the University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD). His primary literatures are German, classical Greek, and Latin. Before coming to UNC-Chapel Hill, he was John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, where he taught courses in both Comparative and German Literature. His courses in Comparative Literature include classes in literary theory, the history of poetics, eighteenth and nineteenth-century fiction, aestheticism, and several on ancient-modern relations. His teaching in German has concentrated on narrative fiction from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, but includes courses on Nietzsche, Freud, and Walter Benjamin. In 2004 he was presented with the Johnson Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Eric Downing’s research has included articles on classical literary theory, Greek drama, Roman elegy, and ancient-modern relations, as well as studies devoted to nineteenth-century literary realism and twentieth-century modernism. His books are Artificial I's: The Self as Artwork in Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Thomas Mann (Niemeyer, 1993), Double Exposures: Repetition and Realism (Stanford University Press, 2000), and After Images: Photography, Archaeology, and Psychoanalysis (Wayne State University Press, forthcoming 2006). He is also co-editor, with Clayton Koelb, of The Camden House History of German Literature, Volume 9: The Nineteenth Century 1830 – 1899 (Camden House, 2005) and, with Christopher Wild, of two special issues of The Germanic Review, Evidence and the Insistence of the Visual (2001) and Critical Constellations: Walter Benjamin (forthcoming, 2005).
424 Dey Hall, CB# 3150
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arturo escobar
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Arturo Escobar is currently Kenan Professor of Anthropology and Director, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His main interests at present are: political ecology, the anthropology of development, social movement theory, science and technology studies, and questions of globalization, displacement, and the politics of place. Over the past ten years, he has worked closely with several social movements and NGOs in the Colombian Pacific and with the Rome-based Society for International Development (SID) on projects on globalization, culture, women, environment, and place.
310 Alumni Building, CB#3115
Phone: (919) 843-7392
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Gregory Flaxman
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Gregory Flaxman is an assistant professor in the English Department at UNC. He earned his B.A. in English at the University of Michigan, an M.A. in English at the University of Minnesota, an M.A. in Communications (Film Studies) at the University of Iowa, and his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. The editor of "The Brain is the Screen: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Cinema," he is currently working on a book about fabulation and philosophy tentatively titled "The Powers of the False."
508 Greenlaw Hall, CB# 3520
Phone: (919) 962-4043
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LAWRENCE GROSSBERG
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Lawrence Grossberg is the Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies, and Chair of the Executive Committee of the University Program in Cultural Studies. He has been international co-editor of the journal Cultural Studies for the past decade. He studied with Stuart Hall and Richard Hoggart (at CCCS), and James Carey (at Illinois).
He has written extensively in cultural studies, on popular music and youth culture, the philosophy/theory of culture and communication, and postmodernism. His 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); Dancing in Spite of Myself: Essays in Popular Culture (1997); Bringing It All Back Home: Essays in Cultural Studies (1997); and MediaMaking (with Ellen Wartella and D. Charles Whitney, 1998). He has co-edited nine books, including Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (1988), Cultural Studies (1991), Sound and Vision (1993), The Audience and its Landscapes (1996) and Without Guarantees: In Honor of Stuart Hall (2000). He has published over one hundred articles and essays, and his work has been translated into ten languages.
His next publications will be: Kids caught in the crossfire; America at war with itself; and New Keywords (with Tony Bennett and Meaghan Morris). Future projects include an introduction to cultural studies, and a work on the philosophical foundations of alternative modernities and perhaps, more on US political culture (especially conservatism). He does not expect to do lots more work on popular culture or popular music--somehow, popular politics (rather than the politics of the popular) seem to be more urgent!
206 Bingham Hall, CB# 3285
Phone: (919) 962-4942
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DOROTHY HOLLAND
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My theoretical interests revolve around identity, agency and social change, particularly social movements. Several colleagues and I have just published Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds (1998, Harvard), a book, which along with a co-edited volume, History in Person: Enduring Struggles and the Practice of Identity (2001, School of American Research Press), articulates a social practice theory of identity. Two previous co-edited volumes, The Cultural Production of the Educated Person (1996, SUNY) and Selves in Time and Place: Identities, Experience and History in Nepal (1998, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers) pursue similar issues in relation to education and in Nepali studies.
The above projects, "Estrangement from the Public Sphere," and the study of the U.S. environmental movement, are large, collaborative ventures. Both projects investigate the new conditions for political and cultural activism and the importance of environmental issues in the public sphere. They also ask how social movements inhabit people's lives, becoming not only viable communities of practice but enduring cultural forms of desire.
My field research includes Trinidad, West Indies, Shango (1967--research for MA); Tutuila, American Samoa, Samoan ethnopsychology (1973, doctoral research); National Institute of Education funded ethnographic studies of school desegregation (1975-1977) and of women and schooling (1979-1981), both carried out in the southeastern United States; NSF funded study of women's critical commentary in Nepal (1991, 1986, 1990); NSF-funded study of computer programmers. NSF-funded research, "Estrangement from the Public Sphere: Economic Change, Democracy and Social Division in North Carolina" (1996-present) and Identity and Environmental Action: The U.S. Environmental Movement as a Context of Behavioral Change" (1996-present), both carried out in North Carolina.
409B Alumni Building, CB# 3115
Phone: (919) 962-3040
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JOHN MCGOWAN
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John McGowan is a founding and active member of UNC's Program in Cultural Studies. His first book, Representation and Revelation: Victorian Realism from Carlyle to Yeats (U Missouri P, 1986), explores the theory and practice of representation in seven Victorian writers. His Postmodernism and its Critics (Cornell UP, 1991) considers the philosophical antecedents to contemporary theory; offers an account of the work of Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, Rorty, Said, and Jameson; and presents an alternative political vision (based in a theory of democracy) to that found in postmodern thought. Hannah Arendt: An Introduction (U Minnesota P, 1998) and Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics (U Minnesota, 1997), edited with Craig Calhoun, continue exploring the resources of democractic theory through an engagement with Arendt's work on the public sphere, judgment, and storytelling. McGowan is one of the editors of the massive (2500 pages) new Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (2001). His forthcoming Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics (Cornell UP, 2002) collects his recent essays on the shifting roles of the intellectual and of the university in our time. |
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Scott Kirsch
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Scott Kirsch is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and a coordinator of the working group on Expertise, Science and Democracy at UNC-Chapel Hill. His research has explored the uses of nature as an experimental space; histories of science, mapping, and state formation; and the cultural meanings of science and technology. He recently published Proving Grounds: Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving (2005, Rutgers University Press), which tells the story of an American program that sought to turn nuclear explosives into a tool for civil engineering during the 1950s and 1960s. When he is not uncovering the hidden geographies of scientific and technological practices, Kirsch enjoys music, growing tomatoes, and San Diego Padres baseball.
306 Saunders Hall, CB #3220
Phone: (919) 962-3874
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John Pickles
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327 Saunders Hall, CB# 3220
Phone: (919) 962-3919
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DELLA POLLOCK
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Dr. Della Pollock, a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), is the author of Telling Bodies Performing Birth (Columbia University Press, 1999), a critical, “intimate” ethnography of the everyday performance of childbirth narratives. She edited the volume, Exceptional Spaces: Essays in Performance History (University of North Carolina Press, 1998) and is co-editor of the international journal Cultural Studies. Founding director of the University Program in Cultural Studies at UNC, Pollock teaches in the general areas of performance, performance and oral history, and performance in everyday life.
Pollock has contributed leading essays to The Ends of Performance, ed. Phelan and Lane (New York University, 1998), The Future of Performance Studies, ed. Dailey (National Communication Association, 1998), and Communication: Views from the Helm for the Twenty-First Century, ed. Trent (Allyn and Bacon, 1998). Her articles have appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, TDR: The Drama Review, Text and Performance Quarterly, The Oral History Review, and Theatre Annual: A Journal of Performance Studies.
A recipient of one of UNC’s most prestigious awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching, Pollock has also received major funding for several course and community-based performance projects. These include “Performing Like a Family,” a regional tour based on oral histories of the textile industry in the Piedmont region of the Carolinas, and, most recently, “Desegregation and the ‘Inner Life’ of High Schools,” a performance even exploring the fraught history of desegregation in the South.
Pollock is currently editing a volume on performance and oral history (St. Martin’s Press) and developing a major project concerned with maternal loss and abjection.
201 Bingham Hall, CB# 3285
Phone: (919) 962-4946
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