WHAP! Lecture Series
Cultural Policy and Ungovernability, 1967-1982
Sarah Brouillette is Professor of English at Carleton University, where she teaches contemporary literature, the history of the book, and social and cultural theory. She is the author of Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace (2007), Literature and the Creative Economy (2014), and a forthcoming study of the history of cultural policy.
Character, Genre, Labor
Jasper Bernes is the author of a scholarly book,
The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization (Stanford, 2017), and two books of poetry,
Starsdown (2007) and
We Are Nothing and So Can You (2015). Together with Juliana Spahr and Joshua Clover, he edits
Commune Editions. He lives in Berkeley with his family and teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Respondents
Annie McClanahan is an Assistant Professor of English at University of California, Irvine. Her book
Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and 21st Century Culture was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. She has also published essays in
theory & event,
Representations,
Post-45,
The Journal of Cultural Economics,
The Journal of American Studies,
South Atlantic Quarterly, and others. She is currently at work on a second book project on the cultural and social history of microeconomics.
Michael Szalay studies the political economy of U.S. literature and media culture. His first two books (
Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party and
New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State) examine the relationship between literature, liberal governance, and economic crisis. He is now finishing a book on HBO. Szalay teaches at UC, Irvine, where he is the Director of the Culture, Law, and Capital Center, and Chair of the English Department.
Speakers to be followed by audience discussion.