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Lawrence Rothfield
Faculty Director
lary@uchicago.edu

Lawrence Rothfield is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He co-founded the Cultural Policy Center with Carroll Joynes after serving as Director (and co-founder, with Gerald Graff) of the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities. His major publications include Vital Signs, a book about the social function of the nineteenth-century novel; The Measure of Man, a study of the politics of culture in the Florentine Renaissance (forthcoming); and a volume of edited essays on the Brooklyn Museum controversy, Unsettling "Sensation": Arts Policy Lessons from the Brooklyn Museum of Art Controversy.

Professor Rothfield co-designed and co-taught Introduction to Cultural Policy with economist Don Coursey in 2000. His most recent publication is a chapter on state-level humanities policy in the volume "Mapping State Cultural Policy" edited by J. Mark Schuster. Rothfield has also taught cultural policy including both the Center's introduction to cultural policy studies and courses on the politics of culture and of taste. He is currently overseeing a major new project on the impact of cultural "scenes" on regional urban development. As faculty director, he is responsible for the research and teaching agenda of the Center.

• Visit the “Unsettling Sensation” web page. Learn about the book on the controversy over the exhibition and read Rothfield's introduction to the collection here.
• See Professor Rothfield's essay (in .pdf format), "Cultural Policy Studies?! . . . A Guide for Perplexed Humanists"

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