Catherine LiuDirector, UCI Humanities Center, Film & Media Studies |
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Research Interests |
Psychoanalysis, Cultural Revolutions and Culture Wars, Chinese Cinema, Literary Theory, Modernity and Modernism, Frankfurt School, Rise of the Novel, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Enlightenment, Critiques of the Enlightenment | |
| URLs | www.higher-yearning.org | |
| UCI Humanities Center | ||
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Academic Distinctions | Award for Rogue Thought, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, 2006 | |
| Appointments | Mellon-Pew Post-doctoral Fellowship, California Insitute of the Arts, 1993-1994 | |
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Research Abstract |
Schooled by the People: Neopopulism in American Life A critique of the critique of elitism, this project demonstrates how progressive and reformist movements within academia participated in attacks on expertise and experts that are extremely compatible with backlash politics. It seeks to identify through historical study, the declining prestige of autonomous intellectual activities as a condition of the populist imagination, but it argues that progressive academics must become full participants in public discourse and abjure languages of transgression and subverson. This project returns us to mid-century historians critics and thinkers such as Theodor Adorno and Richard Hofstadter to look at once dismissed models of cultural and historical research for more publicly persuasive critiques of modernity and its discontents. |
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| Publications | "On Lusitania" (January 2009) for a conference on the http://aboutlusitania.blogspot.com/ | |
| "American Intellectual Traditions: The Demand for Relevance and the Crisis of the Humanities." Western Humanities Review. Fall 2008: pp. 34-57. | ||
| "Creativity at Work" The Baffler. vol. 1 no. 17 | ||
| “Art Escapes Criticism or Adorno’s Museum” Cultural Critique. Volume 60. Spring 2005: 217-244. (II) | ||
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Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton (University of Minnesota Press, 2000) “Lacan’s Afterlives: Jacques Lacan meets Andy Warhol,” Cambridge Companion to Lacan (Cambridge University Press, 2003). “A Brief Genealogy of Privacy: CTRL [Space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother,” Grey Room 15 (2004), 102-118. “The Last Picture Show.” Aperture, May 2004. “Something for Nothing: How Cultural Studies Trashed the Enlightenment and Welcomed the New Age.” The Common Review, Fall/Winter 2004-5 |
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| co-editor, John Mowitt, Thomas Pepper, Jakki Spicer. Dreams of Interpretation: A Century. The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century Down the Royal Road. (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) | ||
| "Afterword" Rrrevolutionnaire. (Slought Foundation, 2007). | ||
| Grants | McKnight Land Grant Professorship, University of Minnesota, 1997-1999 Queensland University of Technology Teaching Fellowship, Brisbane, Australia, (Summer 2003) Grant in Aid : University of Minnesota Graduate School (2004-2005) Fulbright Teaching Fellowship to Tainan University of the Arts (2004-2005) | |
| Fulbright Teaching Fellowship 2004-2005 at Tainan National University of the Arts | ||
| Other Experience |
Associate Professor University of Minnesota 1994—2004 |
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Visiting Associate Professor Bard College 2003—2004 |
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Visiting Professor Queensland University of Technology, Creative Industries, Brisbane Australia 2003 |
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Visiting Professor Tainan National University of the Arts |
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| Graduate Programs |
Visual Studies |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5274 | |
| Last updated | 05/07/2009 | |