Gilbert Rodman

rodman@umn.edu

Communication Studies 253 Ford Hall 224 Church St SE

Department Affiliations

Narrative

Dr. Rodman's research focuses on critical media studies, cultural studies, popular culture, communication technologies, and the politics of race and ethnicity. He is currently working on a book on multiracial identity, media representations, and public policy.

He is the author of Elvis After Elvis: The Posthumous Career of a Living Legend, and co-editor of Race in Cyberspace. His research has appeared in such journals as Cultural Studies, Journal of Communication Inquiry, and Popular Communication.

He is the Acting Chair of the Association for Cultural Studies, the founder and manager of the CULTSTUD-L listserv, and the Book Review Editor for Cultural Studies. He also serves on the editorial boards of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies and Critical Studies in Media Communication.

Dr. Rodman teaches graduate courses in critical media studies and cultural studies

Specialties

Media studies
Cultural studies
Popular culture
Communication technologies
Politics of race and ethnicity

Educational Background

Ph.D.: Communications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1996.

Publications

"Cultural Studies Is Ordinary." Rodman, Gilbert B. In About Raymond Williams, eds. Monika Seidl, Roman Horak, & Lawrence Grossberg, pp. 153-164, Routledge, Author, 2010.
"Race . . . and Other Four Letter Words: Eminem and the Cultural Politics of Authenticity," Rodman, Gilbert B., Popular Communication, 4(2), pp. 95-121, Author, 2006.
"Music for Nothing or, I Want My MP3: The Regulation and Recirculation of Affect." Rodman, Gilbert B., Vanderdonckt, Cheyanne, Cultural Studies, 20(2/3), pp. 245-261, Co-Author, 2006.
Race in Cyberspace. Rodman, Gilbert, Beth E. Kolko and Lisa Nakamura, Routledge, Co-Editor, 2000.
Elvis After Elvis: The Posthumous Career of a Living Legend. Rodman, Gilbert, Routledge, Author, 1996.