Presidential Plenary 2013

by Bruce Burgett    |   Issue 3 (2014), Plenaries, Presidential Plenaries, Universities in Question

ABSTRACT     Presidential Plenary at Cultural Studies Association 2013 Conference. Introduction by CSA President Bruce Burgett with responses to the prompt, "Cultural studies should be...," by Rob Gehl, Christina Nadler, Jamie Skye Bianco, Megan Turner, and Stephen J Luber.

KEYWORDS      conference, cultural studies, discipline, plenary

Responses:

Cultural Studies Should Be…Unsettled by Robert W Gehl

Undisciplined by Christina Nadler

Q3C by Jamie “Skye” Bianco

Academic by Megan Turner

Cultural Studies Should Gamify by Steve Luber

[This article was originally published at http://lateral.culturalstudiesassociation.org/issue3/videoModal. A PDF the original version has been archived at https://archive.org/details/Lateral3.]

Author Information

Bruce Burgett

\Bruce Burgett is Dean and Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. He is the President of the Cultural Studies Association, the Chair of the National Advisory Board of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, and the co-director of the UW’s graduate Certificate in Public Scholarship. He is the author of Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic, and co-editor of Keywords for American Cultural Studies. He recently competed a second edition of Keywords for American Cultural Studies and is currently working on a book project entitled Sex, Panic, Nation. He has taught, researched, and published widely in the fields of American studies, cultural studies, and queer studies. He serves on the editorial and advisory boards of American Quarterly and American Literary History, and the press committee of the University of Washington Press. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Humanities Washington. \