Michael Denning

Michael Denning is a leading Marxist scholar in cultural studies, labor studies, and American Studies (awarded Bode-Pearson prize for lifetime achievement by the American Studies Association); William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of American Studies and of Ethnicity, Race and Migration at Yale University; coordinator of the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture, a pioneering research collective that has appeared in venues from the World Social Forum and Occupy encampments to the Left Forum, the Marxist Education Project, and Historical Materialism conferences; active as public speaker in universities and on podcasts (The Dig, Conjuncture) and contributor to New Left Review; author of Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution, Culture in the Age of Three Worlds, and The Cultural Front.