B.A. 1986 Cornell University
Ph.D. 1995 Stanford University
On the PSU faculty since 1999

FIELDS: Twentieth-Century US Cultural Studies; International American Studies; Globalization; Marxism and Critical Theory; Jewish Studies

PUBLICATIONS

Global Society Must Be Defended: Biopolitics Without Boundaries. Social Text. Special Issue on "The Ends of War." 25:2 (Summer 2007) 53-79.

Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity, Duke University Press, November 2005

Nation, Globe, Hegemony: The Transnational Turn in American Studies, in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Fall 2005

"Cold War American Culture as the Age of Three Worlds" in Minnesota Review, 2002

Globalization as Narrative and Its Three Critiques in Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies, Spring-Summer 2002

"A Yippie-Panther Pipe Dream: Rethinking Race, Sex, and the Sexual Revolution" in Swinging Single: Representing Sexuality in the 1960s, U. of Minnesota Press, 1999

"Theorizing Historicity, or the Many Meanings of Blacula" in Screen, Spring 1998

"Reading the Blackboard: Masculinity and the Cross-Racial Identification of White Youth" in Race and the Subject of Masculinities, Duke U. Press 1997

"Democracy, Capitalism, and American Literature: the Cold War Construction of J.D. Salinger's Paperback Hero" in The Other Fifties: Interrogating Midcentury American Icons, U. of Illinois Press 1997

Mapping the Rebel Image: Postmodernism and the Masculinist Politics of Rock in the U.S.A. in Cultural Critique, Winter 1991-92

"Can the Subaltern Vote?: Representation in the Nicaraguan Elections" in Socialist Review, Fall 1990

INVITED TALKS

Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil, June 2008. "Thinking the Culture of the Cold War Internationally"

Universidade de Sao Paolo, Brazil, June 2008. "Islamophobia and the War on Terror"

University of Toronto, Centre for International Studies (and Centre for the Study of the United States). Ontario Canada, September 11, 2007. "On the Muslim Question: Reorganizations of Racism since 9/11."

McMasters University, Centre for the Study of Globalization., Ontario Canada, September 10, 2007. "Global Society Must Be Defended."

University of Buffalo SUNY, Juxtaposition Lecture Series. September 7, 2007. "Global Society Must Be Defended"

Ray Warren Multiculturalism Symposium. Lewis & Clark College. February 1, 2007. "Race and Multiculturalism since 9/11."

Oregon Council for the Humanities. June 28, 2005. "Schools of Rock" Symposium. "Counteculture and Subculture"

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Center for 21st Century Studies. Conference: Just Feelings: Citizenship, Justice, and the Emotions. April 27-28, 2001. "Downsizing as a Structure of Feeling"

Harvard University. Harvard Humanities Center. October 5, 2000. "Becoming King Creole: Cold War Suburbia and the Rebel Narrative."

Simmons College. Center on Gender and Cultural Studies. October 4, 2000. "Cold War Masculinities"

The Futures of American Studies Group. June 1999. Dartmouth College. "Globalizing American Studies."

BOARD MEMBERSHIP

Executive Committee, Cultural Studies Association U.S. 2003-

Delegate Assembly, Modern Language Association, 2004-