The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century

About Michael Denning

Michael Denning is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies at Yale University and the co-director of Yale's Initiative on Labor and Culture. He is the author of Culture in the Age of Three Worlds; The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century; Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America; and Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller. He coordinates the Working Group on Globalization and Culture whose collective work includes Going into Debt published online in Social Text's Periscope and Spaces and Times of Occupation published in Transforming Anthropology. In 2014 he received the Bode-Pearson lifetime achievement award from the American Studies Association.