Michael Denning is an American

United States

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 cultural historian

Cultural history

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 and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies

American studies

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 at Yale

YALE

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 University. His work has been influential in shaping the field of American Studies

American studies

American studies or American civilization is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the study of the United States. It traditionally incorporates the study of history, literature, and critical theory, but also includes fields as diverse as law, art, the media, film, religious studies, urban...

 by importing and interpreting the work of British Cultural Studies

Cultural studies

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 theorists. Although he received his Ph. D. from Yale

YALE

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 University and studied with Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson is an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends—he once described postmodernism as the spatialization of culture under the pressure of organized capitalism...

, perhaps the greatest influence on his work is the time he spent at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies

Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies

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 working with Stuart Hall

Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)

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He is married to the African American

African American

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 Historian Hazel Carby

Hazel Carby

Hazel V. Carby is professor of African American Studies and of American Studies at Yale University. Before joining Yale University faculty, she taught English at Wesleyan University for seven years...

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External links

• Yale American Studies Department Faculty Page http://www.yale.edu/amstud/faculty.html
• Interview with Michael Denning at the Minnesota review http://www.theminnesotareview.org/journal/ns70/interview_denning.shtml