Aaron Barlow

Cultural Studies scholar and a Professor of English at New York City College of Technology^[1] of the City University of New York

New Media on American society and culture. He has also written two books related to film and the film industry, The DVD Revolution: Movies, Culture, and Technology and Quentin Tarantino: Life at the Extremes.^[12] More recently, he has moved into other areas, producing The Cult of Individualism: A History of an Enduring American Myth (2013)^[13] and The Depression Era: A Historical Exploration of Literature (2016)^[14] and has edited Doughboys on the Western Front: Memories of American Soldiers in the Great War (2016)^[15] as well as the two-volume set Star Power: The Impact of Branded Celebrity (2014).^[16]

Fulbright Fellow from 1985 to 1987. Since 2013, he has been Faculty Editor of Academe, the magazine of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and executive editor of the Academe blog.^[21] In 2016, he wrote regularly for Salon on political issues but stopped after the November election.^[22] His article "The Triumph of the Lie: How Honesty and Morality Died in Right-Wing Politics" appeared in the Summer 2017 issue of The Public Eye.^[23]