Gilbert B. Rodman is associate professor of communication studies at the University of Minnesota. From 1995 to 2006, he was a faculty member in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida. He has also taught graduate seminars as a guest professor at the University of Turku and the University of Heidelberg. He is the former chair of the Association for Cultural Studies and the founder/manager of the CULTSTUD-L listserv, the oldest and largest listserv devoted to cultural studies.

Gilbert’s research is situated at the intersection of cultural studies and critical media studies, with a particular emphasis on the cultural politics of race and racism, digital technologies, intellectual property, and popular culture. He is the author of Why Cultural Studies? (Wiley Blackwell, 2015) and Elvis After Elvis (Routledge, 1996), the editor of The Race and Media Reader (Routledge, 2014), and co-editor of Better Stories: Mapping Cultural Studies with Lawrence Grossberg (Imbricate! Press, 2025) and Race in Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000). With Giulia Pelillo, he is also engaged in an ongoing podcast project entitled Culture Media Language.