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Jerry Herron

Academic Director

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E-mail: jerry.herron@wayne.edu

Area of Specialization
Contemporary American culture; cultural studies; Cities and middle-class culture; cultural institutions, esp. the university; popular film/TV; architecture.

Education

B.A., English, University of Texas
M.A., English, Indiana University
Ph.D., Indiana University

Representative Publications
Afterculture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History, 1993.
Universities and the Myth of Cultural Decline, 1988.
"The Sign in Niki's Window," Georgia Review.
Not the Oprah Show: Why People go to Bad Poetry Readings, Raritan
"Homer Simpson's Eyes," Representations.

Publications Available Through Amazon.com

Afterculture : Detroit and the Humiliation of History
The Ends of Theory
Universities and the Myth of Cultural Decline

 


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