Re-Visioning Education: Cultural Studies, Critical Media and Digital Literacies, and Democracy

About Douglas Kellner

DOUGLAS KELLNER received his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1973 at Columbia University and then taught 25 years in the Philosophy Department at the University of Texas-Austin followed by 25 years of teaching in the Department of Education and Information Studies at UCLA and guest professorships throughout the United States Europe and Asia. Kellner is author of many books on social theory politics history and culture including Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism; Kellner has edited six volumes of the collected papers of Herbert Marcuse which have appeared with Routledge. Kellners Guys and Guns Amok: Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings from the Oklahoma City Bombings to the Virginia Tech Massacre won the 2008 AESA award as the best book on education. With Meenakshi Gigi Durham Kellner had co-edited Media and Cultural Studies. KeyWorks Blackwell (second edition 2012); withwith Rhonda Hammer Kellner has co-edited Media/ Cultural Studies: Critical Approaches (Peter Lang Publishing 2009); and with Stephen Bronner has co-edited The Critical Theory Reader. His most recent books are Technology and Democracy: Toward A Critical Theory of Digital Technologies Technopolitics and Technocapitalism (Springer Publications 2021) and Critical Theory and Pedagogy. Towards The Reconstruction of Education (Peter Lang 2023).