<h4>Catherine Liu is professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine. Author of two academic monographs, Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton and American Idyll: Academic Anti-Elitism as Cultural Critique, she has also published a novel called Oriental Girls Desire Romance. President of the Western Humanities Alliance, she edited a special issue of the Western Humanities Review (2016) on the topic of Prestige. She is at work on a memoir called Panda Gifts, and is a contributor to Liza Featherstone's collection False Choices: the Faux Feminism of Hillary Clinton. Her interest in the populist rebellion against the Professional Managerial Class seems to have been redeemed by recent events.  </h4>

Catherine Liu

Devan Bailey is a PhD student in the Department of English at UC Irvine. He is the program coordinator of the UCI Center for Culture and Capital.

Devan Bailey

The Apprentice in Theory: Fan, Student, Star

Education

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Devan Bailey is a PhD student in the Department of English at UC Irvine. He is the program coordinator of the UCI Center for Culture and Capital.