McGill University
Department of English
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Arts Building
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5 CANADA
B.A. hon. (University of Wisconsin); M.A., Ph.D. (University of Virginia), Associate Professor
British and American Cultural Studies; post-studio-era American film; Marxist and post-Marxist theory; class identity.
Skidmore College, University of Virginia.
“The Gaze at Work: Knowledge Relations and Class Spectatorship.” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 12/13 (Spring 2010): 23-36.
Hard Hats, Rednecks, and Macho Men: Class in 1970s American Cinema (New York: Oxford UP, 2009).
“Fear of Falling Sideways: Alexander Payne’s Rhetoric of Class.”Postmodern Culture 16.1 (September 2005).http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v016/16.1nystrom.html
“Hard Hats and Movie Brats: Auteurism and the Class Politics of the New Hollywood.” Cinema Journal 43.3 (Spring 2004).
Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies: An Interview with Richard Rorty. With Derek Nystrom and Kent Puckett. Charlottesville, VA: Prickly Pear Press, 1998. (Reprinted as Prickly Paradigm #3, 2002. Also translated into Portuguese, German, and Japanese.).
Rev. of The Cultural Front, by Michael Denning. Workplace: The Journal for Academic Labor 1:1 (February 1998).
A book project on class spectatorship and 1930s Hollywood film.
"The New Hollywood," Blackwell’s History of American Film, eds. Roy Grundmann, Cynthia Lucia, Art Simon. Vol. 3. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, forthcoming.