FACULTY

Leerom Medovoi Leerom Medovoi
 Associate Professor
Director, Portland Center for Public Humanities

 Neuberger Hall 423 | 725-4946 | medovoi@pdx.edu
Website: Portland Center for Public Humanities

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

FELLOWSHIPS
U.C.I. Humanities Center, Faculty Research Fellowship,1999-2000
Mellon Foundation and N.E.H. Research Fellowship, Dartmouth College, 1997

AWARDS

  • “Public Learning Project.” Oregon Council for the Humanities Award, Fall 2006.
  • Sponsored Research Award to found a Portland Center for Cultural Studies, Portland State University, Spring 2004.
  • Nominee for John Eliot Allen Outstanding Teacher Award, Portland State University, 2001.
  • Faculty Research Group Award, Globalization and Sexualities, University of California-Irvine, 1998.

PUBLICATIONS

  • 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

  • Counteculture and Subculture, Schools of Rock Symposium, Oregon Council for the Humanities, 2004
  • Downsizing as a Structure of Feeling, Center for 21st Century Studies Conference, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2001
  • Becoming King Creole: Cold War Suburbia and the Rebel Narrative, Harvard Humanities Center, Harvard University, 2000
  • Cold War Masculinities, Center on Gender and Cultural Studies, Simmons College, 2000
  • Globalizing American Studies, The Futures of American Studies Group, Dartmouth College, June 1999
  • Popular Music and Cultural Studies, Women's Studies Program, University of California-Irvine, 1998
  • Racism and the Question of Science, Ethnic Studies Program, University of Utah, 1996

BOARD MEMBERSHIP

  • Executive Committee, Cultural Studies Association U.S. 2003-
  • Delegate Assembly, Modern Language Association, 2004-

DOWNLOADABLE ARTICLES

  Nation, Globe, Hegemony: The Transnational Turn in American Studies

  Mapping the Rebel Image: Postmodernism and the Masculinist Politics of Rock in the U.S.A.

  Globalization as Narrative and Its Three Critiques