Faculty | Michael Kaplan
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Culture
Email: mikaplan@indiana.edu
Phone: 856-1365
Office: 219
Education
- Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2005
Background
Professor Kaplan's research and graduate teaching focus on problems of political agency specific to late modernity; the discursive production and representation of democratic citizenship in the cultural public sphere; and the implications of post-structuralist theory for critical rhetorical, media and cultural studies.
Publication Highlights
- Friendship Fictions: Imagining Liberal Citizenship, forthcoming from The University of Alabama Press in 2009
- "Capitalizing on the Dialectial Economy of Hegemony: Laclau, Populism and the Liberal Wager," Cultural Studies, forthcoming 2009.
- "Rebel Citizenship and the Cunning of the Liberal Imaginary in Thelma & Louise," Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 2008): 1 - 23.
- "Imagining Citizenship as Friendship in The Big Chill," Quarterly Journal of Speech, Vol 91, No 4.
- "Iconomics: The Rhetoric of Speculation," Public Culture, Vol. 15, No. 3.
