Faculty
Daniel Belgrad
Professor
CPR 372
dbelgrad@usf.edu
Daniel Belgrad鈥檚 research focuses on post-World War II American culture. His most recent book, The Culture of Feedback: Ecological Thinking in Seventies America was published in 2019 by the University of Chicago Press. He is also the author of The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America (1999). In 2002 he won the Oscar O. Winther Award from the Western Historical Association for his article 鈥�Power's Larger Meaning鈥� exploring the use of ecology as a historiographical paradigm.
Dr. Belgrad teaches courses on 19th- and 20th-century American cultural and intellectual history, as well as on cultural and literary theory. His graduate-level courses include 鈥淣ineteenth-century American arts and letters,鈥� 鈥淎merican culture in the 1970s,鈥� 鈥淭heories and Methods of Cultural Studies,鈥� 鈥淐ultures of the American Southwest,鈥� and 鈥淲ilderness in the American Imagination.鈥�
Selected Publications
- 鈥溾�榃e鈥檒l Rumble 鈥榚m Right鈥�: Aggression and Play in the Danceoffs of West Side Story鈥� in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition:
- The Culture of Feedback: Ecological Thinking in Seventies America:
- The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America: