Gilbert Rodman

Affiliation

University of Minnesota, USA

Seminar

During the ACS Summer Institute 2011, Gilbert Rodman will organize two seminars:
- What Is Cultural Studies Anyway?
- "New" Media Technologies

About

Gilbert B. Rodman is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota, where his research and teaching focuses on cultural studies, media studies, popular culture, media technologies, intellectual property, and the politics of race and ethnicity. He is the author of Elvis After Elvis: The Posthumous Career of a Living Legend (Routledge 1996) and one of the co-editors of Race in Cyberspace (Routledge 2000). His current research examines the social construction of race in the US, with a specific focus on multiracial identity, media representations, and public policy. He sits on the editorial boards of Cultural Studies (where he also serves as one of the journal's Book Review Editors) and Communication and CriticalCultural Studies. He is also the founder and manager of CULTSTUD-L, an international listserv devoted to cultural studies that currently boasts more than 2500 subscribers from over 40 different countries, and the Acting Chair of the Association for Cultural Studies.