Carolyn Hardin

Carolyn Hardin is associate professor of Media & Communication and American Studies at Miami University in Ohio.

She holds a Ph.D. in communication and cultural studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Her research centers on intersections of culture, economy, and technology in such contexts as the financial crisis, retirement investing, consumer debt, mobile payment technologies, political rhetoric, and television fandom. Carolyn teaches courses on media criticism, consumer culture, and American culture.

Her work has been published in the Journal of Cultural Economy, American Quarterly, and Cultural Studies.

Her book on arbitrage and risk in US society, entitled Capturing Finance: Arbitrage and Social Domination, was published by Duke University Press in 2021.

Carolyn is also founder and principal consultant at Vocable Communications.

Education

Ph.D., Communication and Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Publications

• Ascher, Ivan, Carolyn Hardin, Steven Klein, Johnna Montgomery, and Emily Rosamond (2022). “Finance and the Financialization of Capitalism.” In James Chamberlain and Albena Azmanova eds., Capitalism, Democracy, Socialism: Critical Debates. Springer.
• Hardin, Carolyn. (2021) Capturing Finance: Arbitrage and Social Domination. Duke University Press.
• Hardin, Carolyn and Adam Rottinghaus (2020). “Risk and Arbitrage.” In Robert Wosnitzer and Christian Borch, eds., Routledge Handbook for Critical Finance Studies. Routledge.
• Hardin, Carolyn and Armond Towns (2019). “Plastic Empowerment: Financial Literacy and Black Economic Life.” American Quarterly 71, no. 4, pp. 969-992.
• Hardin, Carolyn (2017). “The Politics of Finance: Cultural Economy, Cultural Studies and the Road Ahead.” Journal of Cultural Economy 10, no. 4, pp. 325-338.
• Hardin, Carolyn and Adam Rottinghaus (2015). “Introducing a Cultural Approach to Technology in Financial Markets.” Journal of Cultural Economy 8, no. 5, pp. 547-563.
• Hardin, Carolyn (2014). “Finding the ‘Neo’ in Neoliberalism.” Cultural Studies 28, no. 2, pp. 199-221.
• Hardin, Carolyn (2014). “Neoliberal Temporality: Time-Sense and the Shift from Pensions to 401(k)s.” American Quarterly 66, no. 1, pp. 95-118.
• Grossberg, Lawrence, Carolyn Hardin, and Michael Palm (2014). “Contributions to a Conjunctural Theory of Valuation.” Rethinking Marxism 26, no. 3, pp. 306-335.

Work in Progress

• Hardin, Carolyn. “The Transformable Canon,” Journal of Fandom Studies.
• Hinck, Ashley and Carolyn Hardin. “Civic Culture in the Supernatural Fandom: Misha Collins, Destiel, and the 2020 US Presidential Election,” Convergence.
• Hardin, Carolyn. “For Love or Politics: Ideology and Affect in the Supernatural Ship Wars”, Sex and Supernatural, ed Cait Coker.