POPULAR CULTURE: CULTURAL STUDIES

SUB-PAGES

• Definitions

Feminist:

• Feminist Perspectives on Popular Culture

Post-colonial:

• Post-colonial Perspectives on Popular Culture

ASSOCIATIONS

• Association for Cultural Studies

• Canadian Association for Cultural Studies

• Critical and Cultural Studies

• Cultural Analysis Summer Academy (CASA)

• Cultural Studies Association (USA)

• Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA)

• Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture / American Culture Association

• NCA Critical and Cultural Studies Division

• Popular Culture Association - American Culture Association

  • Far West Popular Culture Association - American Culture Association

  • North East Popular Culture Association - American Culture Association

  • Popular Culture Association in the South - American Culture Association in the South

  • South West Texas Popular Culture Association - American Culture Association

• Society for the Study of Difference

CONFERENCES

2008:

• Seventh International Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Association for Cultural Studies, University of the West Indies, Mona, July 3-7
• Extremism and the Excluded Middle, 17th Annual Cultural Studies Conference, Department of English, Kansas State University, March 6-8

2007:

2006:

• Sixth Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Association for Cultural Studies, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, July 20-23

2005:

• Sonic Interventions: Pushing the Boundaries of Cultural Analysis, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, March 29-31

• Making Use of Culture, Inaugural Conference of the Cultural Theory Institute, University of Manchester, January 21-23

2004:

• Cooking Culture: Food and Consumption in the Nineteenth Century, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London, July 29-30

• Fifth Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Association for Cultural Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, June 25-28

• Globalisation, Americanisation and Popular Culture, Second Annual Culture and Media Studies Conference, University of Bahcesehir, Turkey, May 20-22

• Annual Conference, National PCA-ACA, San Antonio, April 7-10

• Philosophy and the Interpretation of Popular Culture, Center for Tomorrow, State University of New York, Buffalo, April 2-3

• Culturepoles: City Spaces, Urban Politics and Metropolitan Theory, Second Annual Conference, Canadian Association of Cultural Studies, Hamilton, February 13-15

2003:

• Inaugural Annual Conference, Canadian Association for Cultural Studies, McMaster University, January 31-February 1

2002:

• Fourth Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Association for Cultural Studies, Tamere, Finland, June 29-July 2

2001:

2000:

• Third Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Association for Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, June 21-25

Annual:

COURSES

• Birmingham University:
  • Key Concepts in Cultural and Critical Studies (Clucas)
  • Key Concepts in Cultural and Critical Studies (Connor)
• University of British Columbia: Doing Cultural Studies (McNeilly)
• Harvard University: Foundations of Contemporary Cultural Theory (Flakne)
• University of London: Birbeck College: Key Concepts in Cultural and Critical Studies (Connor)
• Minnesota State University: Cultural Studies (Ryfe)
• Monash University: Culture and Society: Introduction to Cultural Theory (Browitt)
• New School University: Visual and Cultural Studies (Quigley)
• University of South Florida: 
  • Contemporary Cultural Studies 2002 (Rodman)
  • Contemporary Cultural Studies 1999 (Rodman)
  • Contemporary Cultural Studies 1996 (Rodman)
• York University: Cultural Studies Theory (Lucas)

JOURNALS

• Borderlands

• Connect

• Crossings: a Journal of Philosophical, Cultural, Historical, and Literary Studies

• CTheory.Net

• Cultural Critique: the Nature and Context of Minority Discourse (1986 - )

• Cultural Dynamics

• Cultural Studies (1987 - )

• Culture, Language and Representation

• Culture Machine

• EnterText

• Inscriptions

• Invisible Culture

• Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies

• Journal for Cultural Research

• Journal of Material Culture

• Journal of Mundane Behavior

• Journal of Popular Culture or here

• Kritikos

• LIMEN: Journal for the Theory and Practice of Liminal Phenomena

• Limina: a Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies

• M / C Online: a Journal of Media and Culture

• New Formations (1987 - )

• Other Voices: the (E)Journal of Cultural Criticism

• Parallax

• Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions

• Polygraph: an International Journal of Culture and Politics

• Postmodern Culture

• Public Culture: Society for Transnational Cultural Studies

• Reconstruction

• Satya Nilayam: Chennai Journal of Intercultural Philosophy

• Social Text (1979 - )

• Soundings: a Journal of Politics and Culture

• South Pacific Journal of Philosophy and Culture

• Studies in American Culture

• Studies in Popular Culture

• Theory, Culture and Society

• World Cultures

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

• Early Modern:

• Nineteenth Century:

• Twentieth Century:

  • Continental:

    • Idealism:

    • Marxism:

      • Richard Hoggart (1918 - )

      • Raymond Williams (1921 - 1988)

      • E. P. Thompson (1924 - )

      • Pierre Bourdieu (1930 - 2002)

    • Phenomenology / Existentialism / Hermeneutics:

    • Psychoanalysis:

    • (Post-)Structuralisms:

      • Deconstruction:

      • Deleuzean Theory:

      • Dialogism:

      • Foucauldian Theory:

      • Semiotics / Semiology / Structuralism:

      • Structuralist Marxism:

        • Stuart Hall (1932 - )

        • John Frow (1948 - )

      • Structuralist Psychoanalysis:

  • Pragmatism:

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • During, Simon, ed.  The Cultural Studies Reader.  London: Routledge, 1993.

  • Frow, John, and Meaghan Morris, eds.  Australian Cultural Studies: a Reader.  Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1993.

  • Grossberg, Lawrence, Cary Nelson, and Paula A. Treichler, eds.  Cultural Studies.  London: Routledge, 1992.

  • Munns, Jessica, and Gita Rajan, eds.  A Cultural Studies Reader: History, Theory, Practice.  London: Longman,1995.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Hoggart, Richard.  The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Class Life with Special Reference to Publications and Entertainment.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957.

  • Hebdige, Dick.  Sub-Culture: the Meaning of Style.  1979.

  • Thompson, E. P.  The Making of the English Working Class.

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Irwin, William, and Jorge J. E. Gracia, eds.  Philosophy and the Interpretation of Pop Culture.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. [review]

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Barker, Chris.  Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice.  London: Sage, 2003.
  • Brantlinger, Patrick.  Crusoe's Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America.  1990.
  • Culler, Jonathan.  "What is Cultural Studies?"  The Practice of Cultural Analysis: Exposing Interdisciplinary Interpretation.  Ed. Mieke Bal.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999.  335-347.
    Johnson, Richard.  "Multiplying Methods: From Pluralism to Combination."  Practice of Cultural Studies.  By Richard Johnson, et al.  London: Sage, 2004.  26-43.
  • Johnson, Richard, et al.  The Practice of Cultural Studies.  London: Sage, 2004.
  • Johnson, Richard.  "What Is Cultural Studies Anyway?"  Social Text 6.1 (1987): 38-80.
  • Miller, J. Hillis.  "What are Cultural Studies?"  Illustration.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1992.  13-19.
  • Storey, John.  An Introduction to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. 
  • Turner, Graeme.  British Cultural Studies: an Introduction.  London: Routledge, 1990.

On-Line:

• Brantlinger, Patrick: Post-Poststructuralist or Prelapsarian?  Cultural Studies and the New Historicism."  Surfaces 2 (1992).

• Dowling, William C.: Literary Studies v. Cultural Studies

• Schulman, Norma: Conditions of their Own Making: an Intellectual History of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham Canadian Journal of Communications 18.1 (1993).

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

  • Cultural Studies

  • Cultural Theory

  • Popular Culture

  • Popular Culture Studies

• Wolff, Janet: Cultural Studies and the Sociology of Culture Invisible Culture 1 (1999)

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

General:

• Academic Programmes in Cultural Studies (Popculture.Com)

• Cultural Studies Programmes (CULSTUD-L)

Africa:

• Kenya:

  • Moi University: Department of Cultural Studies (no link provided)

• South Africa:

  • University of the Free State: Programme in Culture Studies

  • University of Natal: Graduate Programme in Cultural and Media Studies

Asia:

• Hong Kong:

  • Chinese University of Hong Kong: Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies

  • Hong Kong University: MA in Literary and Cultural Studies

Australasia:

• Australia:

  • Australian National University:

    • Centre for Cross Cultural Research

    • Programme in Cultural and Critical Studies

    • Gender, Sexuality and Culture Programme

  • Curtin University of Technology: Department of Communication and Cultural Studies

  • University of Melbourne: Cultural Studies Programme (Handbook)

  • Monash University: Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies

  • University of Queensland: 

    • Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies

    • Media and Cultural Studies Centre

    • School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies

  • University of Wollongong: Communication and Cultural Studies Program

• New Zealand:

  • Massey University: School of Social and Cultural Studies

Canada:

• University of Alberta: 
  • Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
  • M. V. Dimic Research Institute for Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies
• Brock University: MA in Popular Culture
• Carleton Unviersity: Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture
• University of Guelph: Centre for Cultural Studies
• McGill University:
  • Department of Art History and Communication Studies
  • McGill Institute for the Study of Canada: Canadian Studies Programme
• McMaster University: Department of English: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory Programme
• Ryerson University: Joint Graduate Programme in Communication Culture (with York University)
• Trent University: 
  • Centre for the Study of Theory, Culture and Politics
  • Department of Cultural Studies
• York University:
  • Faculty of Fine Arts: Fine Arts Cultural Studies Programme
  • Joint Graduate Programme in Communication Culture (with Ryerson University)

Europe:

• Bulgaria:

  • Sophia University: Faculty of Philosophy: Cultural Studies Speciality (no link provided)

• Czech Republic: 
  • Charles University: Department of Cultural Studies
• Denmark:
  • Aarhus University: Centre for Cultural Research [defunct]

• France / Germany:

  • Université de Paris VIII / Universitat Stuttgart: Bi-National Masters in Philosophy of Culture

• Hungary:

  • European Graduate School: Department of Media and Communications

• Netherlands:
  • University of Amsterdam: 
    • Institute of Culture and History
    • MA in Philosophy and Cultural Analysis
    • School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
• Switzerland: 
  • European Graduate School: Media and Communications Masters and PhD Programme
• UK:
  • University of Aberdeen: Department of Cultural History
  • St. Andrews University: Institute of European and Cultural Identity Studies
  • University of Birmingham: Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology (closed)

  • Brighton University: School of Historical and Critical Studies: MA in Histories and Cultures (Cultural Memory)

  • University of East London: School of Cultural and Innovation Studies
  • University of Edinburgh: School of European Languages and Cultures: MA in Cultural Studies
  • University of Glasgow: School of Modern Languages: Centre for Intercultural Studies
  • Lancaster University: Institute for Cultural Research
  • Leeds University: School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies:
    • Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory, and History
    • Centre for Cultural Studies  

  • University of London:

    • Birbeck College: MA in Cultural and Critical Studies

    • Goldsmith's College: 

      • Centre for Cultural Studies

      • Department of History: MA in Cultural History

    • Queen Mary College: MA in Identity and Representation
    • University College:
      • Centre for European Studies: MA in European Culture
      • Department of English: MA in Issues in Modern Culture
  • University of Manchester: Cultural Theory Institute
  • Middlesex University: Humanities, Languages and Cultural Studies: MA in Formations of Culture
  • University College Northampton: School of Cultural Studies
  • University of Nottingham: Postgraduate School of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies
  • Sheffield Hallam University: School of Cultural Studies
  • Staffordshire University: Department of Cultural Studies: MA in Social and Cultural Theory
  • University of Stirling: Centre for Textual Culture, Literature and Technology
  • University of Strathclyde: MLitt in Cultural Studies
  • University of Sunderland: School of Art, Design, Media, Culture
  • University of Surrey Roehampton: School of Humanities and Cultural Studies
  • University of Warwick: Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies
  • University of West of England: School of Cultural Studies
  • University of Westminister: Cultural Studies Subject Area

Middle East:

• Israel:

  • Tel Aviv University: Porter School of Cultural Studies: Unit for Cultural Research

USA:

• Americana: Institute for the Study of Popular Culture
• Bowling Green State University: Department of Popular Culture
• Brown University: PhD Program in Modern Culture and Media
• University of California:
  • Davis: Graduate Program in Cultural Studies
  • Santa Cruz: Center for Cultural Studies
• Carnegie Mellon University: PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies

• Catholic University of America: Center for the Study of Culture and Values

• University of Central Florida: Critical Theory / Cultural Studies Program
• University of Chicago: 
  • Committee on the History of Culture
  • Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
• Claremont Graduate University: Department of Cultural Studies
• George Mason University: Programme in Cultural Studies
• Georgetown University: Program in Communication, Culture and Technology
• George Washington University: Program in the Human Sciences (PhD)
• Indiana University: 
  • Cultural Studies Program
  • Department of Communication and Culture
• Johns Hopkins University: Centre for Research on Culture and Literature
• Kansas State University: Program in Cultural Studies
• University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
• University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Department of Cultural Studies
• New School University: MA in Media Studies
• New York University: 
  • Department of Communication and Culture
  • Center for Media, Culture and History

• University of North Carolina: 

  • University Program in Cultural Studies
• Ohio State University: Department of Comparative Studies
• University of Oregon: Centre for Critical Theory and Transnational Studies
• University of Pittsburgh: Graduate Program for Cultural Studies
• Pratt Institute: Program in Cultural Studies

• Princeton University:  Program in European Cultural Studies

• Purdue Unversity: Theory and Cultural Studies

• Rice University: Center for the Study of Cultures (or here)

• University of Rochester: 

  • Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
• Rutgers University: Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture
• University of Southern Maine: Graduate Certificate in Theory, Literature, and Culture
• State University of New York (SUNY), Binghamton: Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture
• Syracuse University: Department of English: English and Textual Studies

• University of Texas, Austin: Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies

• University of Virginia: Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture
• College of William and Mary: Program in Literary and Cultural Studies

WWW GATEWAYS

• Bicket, Dougie: k.i.s.s. of the panopticon

• Blackwell: Cultural Studies Resources

• Canadian Association of Cultural Studies Listserv

• CULTSTUD-L

• Cultural Studies Central

• Cultural Studies Links

• Cultural Theory, Cultural Studies

• E-Server: Cultural Studies

• PopCultures.com (a.k.a Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center)

• Steen, Francis: CogWeb: Cognitive Cultural Studies

• University of Wales, Aberystwyth: Media and Communications Studies

PHILWEB was last updated: June 24, 2008

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