US Cultural Studies: Oxymoron?

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Marcus Breen

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This essay began in 1999 as an attempt to update my perceptions and experiences as a resident alien in the USA. Written expressly for what was then The UTS Review, it was intended to follow up my earlier piece published in 1997, ‘The Cultural Studies Thing You Do: In the USA after Sokal’. Just as the challenges initiated by that ‘affair’ seem to have evaporated, or been absorbed into the apparatus of systemic reinvention in the US academy, I am reinventing my correspondence.

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Marcus Breen, Northeastern University, Boston

MARCUS BREEN lived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for eight years until August 2004. Prior to that he lived and worked in Melbourne. He now lives in Newton, Massachusetts, and teaches in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, while continuing his work as a consultant, husband and father.