Culture and Political Economy, Globalization, American and Southern Studies, Visual Culture
Severin Mueller is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies. Since joining the Cultural Studies PhD Program, he was a Presidential Scholar at George Mason University and website co-editor of the Cultural Studies program and is currently teaching COMM 101: Fundamentals of Communication in the Department of Communication. Before pursuing his Ph.D. at George Mason University, he has received both his Bachelor of Arts degree in Film Studies and his Master of Arts degree in Media Dramaturgy at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.
Severin studies the social history and political economy of Appalachia and the U.S. South. His primary research interest focuses on the convergence of cultural and material threads in the present moment of economic and political history. To this end, he is particularly interested in the role of public education in society.