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.