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Dear Colleagues, Thank you for taking this journey with me! This site is the digital repository for your discussion questions, assingments, and course multimedia. About the Course: Our course will explore the scholarship of Stuart Hall. In so doing, we will also examine the theories, methods, and history of cultural studies. The course focuses on the major areas of Hall’s work: Marxist thought and the political economy, diasporas and globalization, cultural production and popular culture, film and cinema studies, race, ethnicity, identity, and differánce. It will also cover key theorists that influenced Stuart Hall (e.g., Marx, Foucault, Fanon, Gramsci, and Althusser) and contemporary scholars in cultural studies that have made use of Hall’s writings and theories in their own work. Finally, we will consider the role of theory in everyday life and the critical role of public intellectuals. This English graduate course is cross-listed with the African American Studies Program, the American Studies department, and it counts toward the graduate certificate in African American Studies and the graduate certificate in Public Digital Humanities.