Michael Denning: at UC Davis

> CHSC Colloquium Series: Critical Knowledges after Neoliberalism- Spring 2005 presents:
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> Michael Denning
> American Studies Program, Yale University
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> THE RHETORIC OF CLASS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
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> Tuesday May 24, at 4 pm in the Andrews Conference Room
> 2203 Soc. Sci/Hum Bldg.
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> Michael Denning is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies at Yale University. His most recent book Culture in the Age of Three Worlds is a trenchant and far-reaching analysis of "the cultural turn" in the humanities and social sciences that was forged in New Left social movements. Recasting the legacies of British cultural studies and the radical traditions of the American studies movement in a global context, Denning reassesses the legacy of the political and intellectual battles over the meanings of culture and charts the lineaments of the global cultures that emerged as three worlds gave way to one.
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> He has taught graduate courses on cultural theory, social movements, and twentieth-century cultural history, and is currently leading a working group on globalization and culture. He is also the author of the author of Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture in America (1987); Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller (1987); The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (1997).