Jack Bratich

Jack Z. Bratich is professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University. He has written dozens of articles, book chapters, and essays about the intersection of popular culture and political culture. His work applies social and political theory to such topics as social movements, craft culture, social media, and the cultures of secrecy. He is author of On Microfascism: Gender, War, Death (Common Notions, 2022); Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture (2008) and coeditor of Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality (2003). He is currently working on a book tentatively titled “Deathstyle Media: Digital Cultures of the Far Right."

Ph.D., Communication and Media, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Institute of Communications Research
B.A., Philosophy and Religion, Truman State University