Cultural Studies in the Classroom and Beyond Critical Pedagogies and Classroom Strategies

This edited volume seeks to combine and highlight the theoretical and practical aspects of teaching by exploring and reflecting on the ways in which Cultural Studies is taught and practiced at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, in the US and internationally. Contributors create a space where connections among Cultural Studies practitioners across generations and locations are formed. Because the alliances built by Cultural Studies practitioners in the U.S. and the global north are deeply shaped by the global south/Third World perspectives, this book extends an invitation to teachers and practitioners in and outside of the US, including those who may offer a transnational perspective on teaching and practicing Cultural Studies. This volume promises to be a trailblazing collection of first-rate essays by leading and emerging figures in the field of Cultural Studies.

1. Editorial Introduction; Jaafar Aksikas, Sean Johnson Andrews, and Donald Hedrick

2. Introduction: Practicing Cultural Studies Now; Lawrence Grossberg

3. Teaching Media Studies and/as Cultural Studies; Toby Miller

4. Cultural Studies in Practice: The Question of Methodology in Cultural Studies; Jaafar Aksikas

5. Teaching Marxist Cultural Theory On-line; Ron Strickland

6. The Ethical Turn in Studies of Supervision: A View From Cultural Studies; Liam Grealy and Timothy Laurie

7. Into the Factory; Pablo Andrés Castagno

8. Public Pedagogy and Private Programs: Practicing Cultural Studies in Neoliberal Adult Education; R. Gabriel Dor 

9. Cultural Studies and (Un)Critical Pedagogies: From New Times to Hard Times; Lisa B. Y. Calvente, Mark Hayward, Joshua Smicker, and Sindhu Zagoren

10. Critical (Race) Pedagogy and the ‘Neoliberal Arts’ in Walker’s Wisconsin; Pia Møller

11. Teaching Cultural Studies in the Undergraduate Curriculum; Jaafar Aksikas and Sean Johnson Andrews

12. Concepts as Metaphors: Cultural Studies as a Writing Practice; Donald Hedrick

13. On the Impossibility of Teaching Cultural Studies; Gil Rodman

14. No Safe Spaces: Feminism and Queer Studies in the Classroom; Jodi Davis-Pacheco

15. On Feminist Cultural Studies: A Feminist’s Reflections on Teaching Cultural Studies, Ann Hetzel Gunkel

Editors

Jaafar Aksikas is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Columbia College Chicago, USA. He is also Past President of the Cultural Studies Association.

Sean Johnson Andrews is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences at Columbia College Chicago, USA. He is currently the Treasurer of the Cultural Studies Association.

Contributors

Liam Grealy, University of Sydney, Australia

Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Ann Hetzel Gunkel, PhD, Columbia College Chicago, USA

Mark Hayward, York University, Canada

Timothy Laurie, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Toby Miller, University of California, Riverside, USA

Pia Møller, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Gil Rodman, University of Minnesota, USA

Joshua Smicker, Philadelphia University, USA

Ron Strickland, Michigan Technological University, USA

Sindhu Zagoren, Community College of Philadelphia, USA