16 Facts About Lawrence Grossberg

Lawrence Grossberg's work focuses on the relations of popular and political cultures.

Lawrence Grossberg was among the first academic intellectuals to take seriously the challenges of understanding the relations of popular music and post-war youth cultures.

Lawrence Grossberg grew up in Brooklyn, New York, in an upwardly mobile, second-generation immigrant Jewish family, suffering from a congenital orthopedic disability.

Lawrence Grossberg's dissertation was an attempt to bring together Martin Heidegger's phenomenology and the work of key cultural studies figures.

Lawrence Grossberg moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1994 as the Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies, where he held appointments in American Studies, Anthropology, and Geography.

Lawrence Grossberg retired as Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Communication in 2022.

Lawrence Grossberg has received numerous honors and awards for scholarship, teaching, and mentorship.

Lawrence Grossberg has published ten books and more than 250 essays and interviews, and has edited eleven books.

Lawrence Grossberg edited the major international journal Cultural Studies for thirty years.

Lawrence Grossberg's work has been published in 20 languages and he has lectured all over the world.

Lawrence Grossberg's published books include It's a Sin: Essays on Postmodernism, Politics and Culture, We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture, Bringing it All Back Home: Essays on Cultural Studies, Dancing in Spite of Myself: Essays in Popular Culture, Caught in the Crossfire: Kids, Politics and America's Future, and Cultural Studies in the Future Tense.

Lawrence Grossberg is co-author of MediaMaking: Mass Media in a Popular Culture and About Raymond Williams, and co-edited Cultural Studies.

Lawrence Grossberg has published more than one hundred articles and essays.

Lawrence Grossberg serves on the editorial collective of Public Culture, among many other academic journals.

Lawrence Grossberg's work, including a number of collections, has been translated into ten languages.

Lawrence Grossberg has stated that Stuart Hall was the godfather to his only son.