Cultural Studies
Welcome to the Cultural Studies Department
Cultural Studies situates culture as a site of power struggles between competing systems of representations and the ways of life that they support. Our methods of study are critical: not only exposing the ideological dimension of culture but also exploring its radical political potential.
Our faculty members specialize in feminist and queer studies, critical race theory, film and media studies, postcolonial studies, psychoanalysis, Latino/a studies, and more. The CGU Cultural Studies Department is distinguished by offering both an MA and PhD in Cultural Studies. The department offers several concentrations, including Media Studies and Museum Studies, which are unique for their combination of a strong emphasis on cultural theory and hands-on practical experience. Students in the program can also choose to specialize in such transdisciplinary concentrations as American Studies, Continental Philosophy, Early Modern Studies or Hemispheric & Transnational Studies.
Instruction in Cultural Studies is carried on in seminars. Classes are small and each student’s program individually designed. Students have considerable input in the design of their courses of study, including choice of concentrations and minor fields.
Because many students enter the program from other disciplines, the department offers a variety of introductory courses in addition to advanced-level courses. Students are required to take courses in research methodologies appropriate to their interests in Cultural Studies: possibilities include ethnographic field research methods, visual research methods, oral history, archival studies, digital humanities, and film or literary theory and analysis.
Chair: David Luis-Brown
831 N. Dartmouth Avenue • Claremont, CA 91711 • 909-621-8612 • Fax 909-607-9587
David Luis-Brown
Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and English
Chair, Cultural Studies Department
Director, Africana Studies Program
Programs
Core Faculty
Joshua Goode
Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and History
Chair, History Department
Research Interests
Modern Spain, 19th- and 20th-century Europe, Genocide and racial thought, Museums and commemoration, Memory
David Luis-Brown
Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and English
Chair, Cultural Studies Department
Director, Africana Studies Program
Research Interests
Hemispheric Americas studies, Latino/a/x studies, Black diaspora studies, American literature and culture
Eve Oishi
Associate Professor of Cultural Studies
Research Interests
Cultural studies, Media studies, Feminist and queer theory
Linda Perkins
Associate University Professor
Director, Applied Women’s Studies
Research Interests
Women and African-American higher education
Extended Faculty
Elizabeth Affuso
Pitzer College
Research Interests
Spectatorship, Fandom, Branding, Technology, Architecture, Moving image media art, Reality television
Ahmed Alwishah
Pitzer College
Research Interests
Islamic philosophy, Medieval philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Islamic theology
Mark Andrejevic
Pomona College
Research Interests
Media: digital media, popular culture, reality TV; Surveillance: drones, data mining/big data; Criticism: critical theory
Paul Faulstich
Pitzer College
Research Interests
Cultural ecology, Ecological design, Ecology of expressive culture, Aboriginal Australias
Jennifer Friedlander
Scripps College
Research Interests
Cultural studies, Contemporary art controversies, Film theory, Psychoanalytic theory
Frances Pohl
Pomona College
Research Interests
American art, Feminism and art, Art and politics