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04/14/2009
Second Annual Eric Schocket Lecture on Class & Culture

Michael Denning is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies and English at Yale University. An influential figure in American Studies and Cultural Studies, Denning's work examines contemporary representations of workers, the unemployed, and the figure of "global labor." He is the author of Culture in the Age of Three Worlds (2004), The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (1997), Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller (1987), and Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture in America (1987).

The Eric Schocket Lecture on Class and Culture honors the late Eric Schocket, who, until his untimely death in 2006, taught American Literature at Hampshire College and is the author of Vanishing Moments: Class and American Literature (2006). The lecture series was inaugurated in 2008 with a lecture by Cora Kaplan.