Cultural Studies Adjunct: Michael Kaplan
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture and Adjunct faculty member in the Cultural Studies program at Indiana University. In addition to articles published in leading interdisciplinary journals, I have recently completed a book titled Friendship Fantasies: The Rhetoric of Citizenship in the Liberal Imaginary. My 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 rhetorical implications of post-structuralist theory.