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Dick Hebdige
Professor, Director, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
Interdisciplinary/Experimental Studies
Dick Hebdige has published extensively on
popular culture, media and critical theory
and contemporary art, music and design. He
is the current Director of the campus
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center while
holding a joint faculty appointment in the
Department of Art and Film Studies. He has
been teaching in art schools since the mid
1970's, having served as the Dean of
Critical Studies and the Director of the
experimental writing program at CalArts
before coming to UCSB. Hebdige has
published numerous articles, reviews and
catalogue essays and is the author of three
seminal books on art and popular culture:
Subculture: The Meaning of Style, Cut'n'mix:
culture, identity and Caribbean Music and
Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things.
His research interests include transmedia
performance and the integration of critical
thinking into art practice and teaching. He
received his Master of Arts degree from the
Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies,
England.
contact hebdige at ihc dot ucsb dot edu
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