Hats I sometimes wear/wore:
- Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota
- Former Chair of the Association for Cultural Studies
- Founder/manager of the CULTSTUD-L listserv
- Advisory Board Member for the International Institute for Popular Culture
- Editorial Board Member for:
Podcast (with Giulia Pelillo)
Other places you can find me online:
- Academia.edu
- Bluesky
- Google Scholar
- Knowledge Commons
- ORCID
- Spotify
- Twitter / X (don’t expect anything new from me here)
- YouTube (the “Soundtrack of the Revolution” playlist)
Assorted interviews, news stories, and videos:
- “No Reason: Intellectual Work in the Time of Monsters,” Inaugural lecture, Diplomatische Akadamie Wien – Vienna School of International Studies, Vienna, Austria, March 2026
- The inaugural episode of “Breaking Culture Live,” hosted by Sean Johnson Andrews and Rob Carley, with me, Lisa Calvente, and Greg Seigworth as guests, discussing Better Stories, 15 October 2025
- “Whose Culture? Our Culture!: Pirates as Cultural Care/Takers,” presented at the “Pirate Care” conference, Coventry, UK, June 2019
- “Reminds Me of Somethin’: Prince and the Racial Politics of Copyright,” presented at the “Prince From Minneapolis” conference, Minneapolis, MN, USA, April 2018
- Access Minnesota interview about privacy in a digital age, 6 March 2012
- Minnesota Daily story on one of my pedagogical experiments, 8 November 2011