Lawrence Grossberg
UPCS Director
Department of Communication Studies
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Lawrence Grossberg is the 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., University of Illinois (Communication Research). Media and Cultural Studies. Dr. Grossberg's research and teaching interests are: cultural studies and cultural theory (including Marxist, feminist, British, "postcolonial," post-structuralist, and postmodernist); modern and contemporary philosophy; popular music (rock culture) and popular culture; contemporary political culture of the U.S.
Robert C. Allen
Department of Communication Studies
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Carole Blair
Department of Communication Studies
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Eric Downing
Department of Germanic Languages
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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 (2005).
Arturo Escobar
Department of Anthropology
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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.
Gregory Flaxman
Department of English
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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."
Dorothy Holland
Department of Anthropology
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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.
Joseph F. Jordan
Director of Sonja Haynes Stone Center
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Scott Kirsch
Department of Geography
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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.
Federico Luisetti
Department of Romance Languages
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Christian Lundberg
Department of Communication Studies
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John McGowan
Department of English
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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.
George Noblit
School of Education
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John Pickles
Department of Geography
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Della Pollock
Department of Communication Studies
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Della Pollock is the Bank of America Honors Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has published widely on oral history in and as performance, the performance of memory, body politics, and performance for social change. She is the author of Telling Bodies, Performing Birth (Columbia University Press, 1999) and editor of the volumes Exceptional Spaces: Essays in Performance and History (University of North Carolina Press, 1998) and Remembering: Oral History Performance (Palgrave, 2005). She is also Associate Editor of the Sage Handbook of Performance Studies (Sage 2005) and Internationalizing Cultural Studies (Blackwell 2004) and co-editor of the journal, Cultural Studies. She has most recently contributed to the Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies, ed. T. Davis and Key Concepts in Performance Studies, ed. G. Cody.



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