Michael Denning's writings on labor have fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the American working class. He returns to his alma mater at a time when his work matters more than ever.
Michael Denning is the author of Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution (2015); Culture in the Age of Three Worlds (2004); The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (1997); Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture in America (1987); and Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller (1987). He is the coordinator of the Working Group on Globalization and Culture; and his courses include "Work and Daily Life in Global Capitalism," "Recording Vernacular Musics," and "Marxism and the Social Movements."