Daniel J. Russo
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: drusso@unc.edu
Education
B.A., Digital Media, Marquette University
M.A., Media Studies, UW-Milwaukee
Biography
Daniel Russo is a doctoral student in our department studying the ongoing state of capitalist economics and crisis management in the U.S. Through combining Marxian theories of crisis and Foucauldian theories of discourse, knowledge, and regulation, he seeks to contextualize the government’s economic policy with historical trends and developments in both capitalism and national economic management.
As of now, he’s trapped in the digital archives as he explores the discourses of the presidential administration, the Federal Reserve, and other federal economic administrators in order to better understand the government’s own views on economics, their roles in national economic management, and their justifications for the particular interventions they choose to make (or not make).
In a former life, he explored the role of standup comedy in the formation of counter-publics across the political spectrum.
You can find his academic works in Capital & Class, Science & Society, Mediální studia, the Journal of Modernism and Postmodernism Studies, and in Donnalyn Pompper’s recent edited collection on the Rhetoric of Masculinity. Daniel also emphasizes public-facing scholarship, so you can find other works of his in Sublation Magazine and the Philosophical Salon.