Faculty

Daniel Belgrad

Professor

CPR 372
dbelgrad@usf.edu

Curriculum Vitae

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 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: