Dick Hebdige

Dick Hebdige (born 1951) is an expatriate British media theorist and sociologist, and a Professor of Art and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His work is commonly associated with the study of subcultures, and its resistance against the mainstream of society. His current research interests include media topographies, desert studies, and performative criticism. He has written extensively on contemporary art, design, media and cultural studies, and has published three books: Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979), Cut’n’mix: Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music (1987), and Hiding in the Light: On images and Things (1988).

Hebdige received his Master of Arts (MA) degree from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham, United Kingdom and an honorary degree from Goldsmiths, University of London (formerly known as Goldsmiths' College). He is best known for his influential book in subcultural studies, Subculture: The Meaning of Style, originally published in 1979.

Hebdige has been teaching at art schools since the mid-1970s. Since 1992, Hebdige has been working on arts administration, events planning, program development, and curriculum innovation first at CalArts (2001-2008), then at the University of California, Santa Barbara as Director of Interdisciplinary Humanities Center from 2005 and as co-director of the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts. He served as the Dean of Critical Studies and the Director of the Experimental writing program at the California Institute of the Arts before going to the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is currently professor of film & media studies and art. In the UCSB art department, he is professor of “Interdisciplinary/Experimental Studies, (50% Art, 50% Film and Media Studies)." Hebdige is also a scholar in residence at the University of Houston where he has given multimedia lectures and performance series with the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.

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