14 Facts About Marshall Fishwick

Marshall William Fishwick was an American multidisciplinary scholar, professor, writer, and editor who started the academic movement known as popular culture studies and established the journal International Popular Culture.

Marshall Fishwick was one of four children in his family, having two sisters and one brother, railroad executive, John Marshall Fishwick.

Marshall Fishwick held degrees from the University of Virginia, the University of Wisconsin, and Yale University, and he later received honorary degrees from Bombay University, and Dhaka University.

Marshall Fishwick began his teaching career at Washington and Lee University in 1949.

Marshall Fishwick co-founded the Popular Culture Association in the late 1960s.

In 1998 Marshall Fishwick was honored with a lifetime achievement award by the American Culture Association.

Marshall Fishwick founded the journal International Popular Culture, and was co-founder of the Popular Culture Association.

Marshall Fishwick served as the association's president and was advisory editor of both the Journal of Popular Culture and the Journal of American Culture.

Marshall Fishwick served as Advisory Editor to the Journal of American Culture and was a Senior Editor at Haworth Press.

Marshall Fishwick went on to write more than twenty books and edited an additional dozen in the fields of history, literature, education, theology, and communication.

Marshall Fishwick authored many books including American Heroes: Myth and Reality, American Studies in Transition, Icons in Popular Culture, An American Mosaic: Rethinking American Culture History, Popular Culture: Cavespace to Cyberspace, and Go and Catch a Falling Star.

Marshall Fishwick's collected poems, The Face of Jang, were published in 1945.

Marshall Fishwick's dissertation was published as A New Look at the Old Dominion.

An inveterate traveler, Marshall Fishwick reminisced about his journeys in Around the World in Forty Years.