ec2
 

Michael D.
Dwyer

Michael D. Dwyer

Syracuse, New York

Michael D. Dwyer is a PhD candidate in English at Syracuse University, specializing in film and media studies. His research and teaching interests are in the ways that the circulation and citation of film, popular music, television, and other popular culture texts serve as forms of cultural memory, and how their consumption functions as collective historiography. Under the direction of Steven Cohan, his dissertation, Back to the Fifties: Pop Nostalgia in the Reagan Era, considers the slew of films in the 1980s that sought to recapture, recast, re-enact or re-imagine the 1950s. It is on-schedule for a April 2010 defense date.


Michael D. Dwyer's Schools

Michael D. Dwyer's Publications

  • "Fixing the Fifties in the Reagan Era", The 1980s: A Transitional Decade
    May, 2010
    “Fixing the Fifties in the Reagan Era.” The 1980s: A Transitional Decade. Duncan Campbell and Kimberly R. Moffitt, eds. Latham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield / Lexington Books. 2010 (Forthcoming).
  • "'It Was Something': Sadie Benning, Kathleen Hanna, and the Limits of Grrrl-hood", Singing for Themselves: Women in Popular Music
    November, 2007
    “It Was Something: Kathleen Hanna, Sadie Benning, and the Limits of Grrrl-hood.” Singing for Themselves: Essays on Women in Popular Music. Patricia Spence Rudden, ed. Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK): Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007

Michael D. Dwyer's Links