Sean Johnson Andrews is Associate Professor Emeritus of Cultural Studies at Columbia College Chicago. He has served as President, Vice President, Treasurer, and member of the Executive Committee for the Cultural Studies Association, where he has been active almost since its inception in 2002. He writes and teaches courses in cultural studies and media studies theories, methods and methodologies as well as in digital humanities, globalization and political economy.

You can find his most recent work on his Substack – Breaking Culture – and on his YouTube Channel – Breaking Culture Live, where he also hosts a semi weekly program affiliated with the Cultural Studies Association. He also hosts the So What? Podcast with Madhurima Chakraborty.

He is author of The Cultural Production of Intellectual Property Rights (Temple UP, 2019) and Hegemony, Mass Media, and Cultural Studies: Properties of Meaning, Power and Value in Cultural Production (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2016); co-editor, with Jaafar Aksikas, of ‘Cultural Studies and the ‘Juridical Turn’ :Culture, law, and legitimacy in the era of neoliberal capitalism” (Routledge, 2016); and Cultural Studies in the Classroom and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) whose most recent essay appears in Property, Place, and Piracy, edited by Martin Fredriksson and James Arvanitakis (Routledge 2018). As chair of the Cultural Policy Studies Working Group of the Cultural Studies Association he co-edited an issue of communication +1 on the intersection of Media:Culture:Policy.