Assistant Professor in American Consumer Culture and Cultural Production

The faculty in this position has specialization in the history and politics of the production and consumption of culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Areas of interest might include the music, fashion, media, or technology industries, with particular focus on their impact on communities in the U.S. South. The department’s faculty may exercise a capacious definition of scholarship and traditional disciplines as well as emerging inter- and transdisciplinary fields. 

The department values a variety of methodological approaches and is especially interested in scholars whose work engages with critical academic conversations, produces public-facing scholarship, and fosters community collaboration.