Michael Denning

Michael Denning is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies. He is the author of Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture in America (1987); Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller (1987); The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (1997); and Culture in the Age of Three Worlds (2004). He has taught graduate courses on cultural theory, social movements, and twentieth–century cultural history, and is currently leading a working group on globalization and culture.