Michael Denning

Michael Denning is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and the co-director of Yale's Initiative on Labor and Culture. He is the author of Culture in the Age of Three Worlds ; The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century ; Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America; and Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller . He coordinates the Working Group on Globalization and Culture,...See more

Michael Denning is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and the co-director of Yale's Initiative on Labor and Culture. He is the author of Culture in the Age of Three Worlds ; The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century ; Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America; and Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller . He coordinates the Working Group on Globalization and Culture, whose collective work includes "Going into Debt," published online in Social Text's Periscope , and "Spaces and Times of Occupation," published in Transforming Anthropology . In 2014, he received the Bode-Pearson lifetime achievement award from the American Studies Association. See less