Expertise

Art, Popular Culture, Social Theory, Social Media, Disability Studies

Biography

I study stories and storytelling in a range of forms: art, popular culture, social media, and activism. I examine how issues of identity shape who gets to tell stories in American culture, particularly in terms race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability. I also examine the gatekeeping roles of public policy, nonprofits, and corporations.

Website

Selected Publications

• Kidd, D. 2014. Pop Culture Freaks: Identity, Mass Media, and Society. (second edition 2018) Boulder, CO: Westview.
• Kidd, D. 2017. Social Media Freaks: Digital Identity in the Network Society. Boulder, CO: Westview.
• Kidd, D. 2012. “’She’d Have Been Locked Up in St. Mungo’s for Good’: Magical Maladies and Medicine.” Pp. 91-100 in The Sociology of Harry Potter, edited by Jenn Sims. Hamden, CT: Zossima Press.
• Kidd, D. 2012. “Fire in Our Bellies and Fear in out Arts.” Contexts 11(1):54-55.
• Kidd, D. 2010. Legislating Creativity. New York: Routledge.
• Kidd, D. 2007. "Harry Potter and the Functions of Popular Culture." The Journal of Popular Culture 40: 70-90.

Courses Taught

Graduate Seminars

• Teaching in Higher Education
• Classical Sociological Theory
• Contemporary Social Theory
• Sociology of Culture
• Gender and Sexuality Research Seminar

​Undergraduate Seminars and Lecture Course

• Sociology of Popular Culture
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Internship in Sociology
• Development of Sociological Thought
• Intellectual Heritage I: The Good Life
• Intellectual Heritage II: The Common Good
• Demystifying Technology
• Ethnicity and the Immigrant Experience
• Introduction to Sociology