Lawrence Grossberg
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Lawrence Grossberg is an scholar of cultural studies and popular culture (focusing on popular music and youth culture). He is also widely known for his research in the philosophy of culture and communication and postmodernism.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Grossberg went to Stuyvesant High School. In 1968 he graduated summa cum laude in history and philosophy from the University of Rochester. Afterwards, he studied and worked with Stuart Hall at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, England.
After two years of travelling with a French-speaking theatre group through Europe, he returned to the USA for doctoral studies in Communication Research (with James Carey) at the University of Illinois, where he also supported founding the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. He remained in Illinois until 1994. Currently, he is Morris Davis Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Chair of the Executive Committee of the University Program in Cultural Studies. He has not only published books, such as It's a Sin: Essays on Postmodernism, Politics and Culture (1988), We Gotta Get Out Of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture (1992), Dancing in Spite of Myself: Essays in Popular Culture (1997) and Caught in the Crossfire: Kids, Politics and America’s Future (2005), but also over one hundred articles and essays.
His work, including a number of collections, has been translated into ten languages. Future projects include an introduction to cultural studies, a work on the philosophical foundations of alternative modernities, and perhaps more on US political culture.
