Retired as a lecturer in history and American civilization at Brown University, Paul Buhle is a fellow of the Mosse Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is author, editor, or coeditor of forty books on popular culture, comic art, film, labor, and radical history. Most recently, he has edited ten volumes of nonfiction comics, including biographies of Emma Goldman, Isadora Duncan, and Che Guevara; histories of the Beat Generation, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Industrial Workers of the World; and Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation (2009). He edited the three-volume set, Jews and American Popular Culture (2006). He also founded and directed the New Left journal, Radical America, and the Oral History of the American Left
project at New York University.

Lecture topics:

• Comic Art Comes of Age in the Twenty-First Century
• The Hollywood Blacklist and the Films and Television Work of the Hollywood Left, 1930-1980
• Legacies and Reinterpretations of the 1960s' Social Movements
• Yiddish Heritage and the Jewish Role in American Popular Culture
• American Labor's Rise, Fall, and Troubled Present

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