Better Stories: Mapping Cultural Studies with Lawrence Grossberg
DOI https://doi.org/10.22387/IMBBS
CC BY 4.0
Edited by Andrew Davis, John Nguyet Erni, Carolyn Hardin, Gilbert B. Rodman, and Jennifer Daryl Slack
Better Stories assembles essays and provocations in honor of Lawrence Grossberg’s radically contextual and affectively attuned lifework. In over fifty chapters, contributors trace mattering maps of influence, friendship, and intellectual struggle charged with the hope that thinking together—with feeling—can change the world. These essays not only comment on Grossberg’s ideas and many published works but also engage, expand, confront, and reshape them. Here, cultural studies is not a settled field but an unruly and ongoing conversation: an affective and political project sustained through convivial agonism, where asking “so what?” sparks new thinking and even better stories.
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CITE AS:
Andrew Davis, John Nguyet Erni, Carolyn Hardin, Gilbert B. Rodman, and Jennifer Daryl Slack (eds). (2025) Better Stories: Mapping Cultural Studies with Lawrence Grossberg. Lancaster, PA; Vancouver, BC: Imbricate! Press.
DATE September, 2025
CITY Lancaster, PA; Vancouver, BC
DOI https://doi.org/10.22387/IMBBS
CC BY 4.0
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EDITORS
Andrew Davis, John Nguyet Erni, Carolyn Hardin, Gilbert B. Rodman, and Jennifer Daryl Slack
AUTHORS
Charles R. Acland
Preston Adcock
Juan Ricardo Aparicio
Bryan G. Behrenhausen
Tony Bennett
Marcus Breen
Lisa B.Y. Calvente
Iain Chambers
Younghan Cho
John Clarke
Barbara Claypole White
Zachariah Claypole White
Chantal Cornut-Gentille D’Arcy
Christopher James Dahlie
Andrew Davis
John Nguyet Erni
Anthony Fung
Jeremy Gilbert
Ronald Greene
Claudia Gualtieri
Carolyn Hardin
Mark Hayward
Lisa Henderson
Roman Horak
Rolien Hoyng
Steve Jones
May Joseph
Mikko Lehtonen
Jo Littler
Christina Lutter
Wolfgang Maderthaner
Lidia De Michelis
Meaghan Morris
Lutz Musner
Jeremy Packer
Roberto Pedretti
Elspeth Probyn
Aljoša Pužar
Gilbert B. Rodman
Andrew Ross
Adam Richard Rottinghaus
Bill Schwarz
Gregory J. Seigworth
Jennifer Daryl Slack
Patty Sotirin
Maximilian Spiegel
Douglas Spielman
Jonathan Sterne
Charles J. Stivale
Will Straw
Ted Striphas
Juan A. Tarancón
Chung-Kin Tsang
Graeme Turner
Xiaoming Wang
Ellen Wartella
Rainer Winter
J. Macgregor Wise