Kathleen Stewart

Kathleen Stewart teaches anthropology and cultural studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She writes on political imaginaries and structures of desire in the United States. She has done fieldwork in West Virginia, Las Vegas, Orange County, CA, Austin, TX, and New England. She is the author of A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an “Other” America (Princeton, 1996). She is currently completing a yet untitled book on the private life of public culture, or the culture of impact, affect, and intimacy in the United States now.