Michael D. Dwyer

Michael D. Dwyer is Professor of Media and Communication and Norman Johnston Faculty Fellow at Arcadia University, where he teaches courses in film history, media studies, and cultural studies. He is the author of Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt (Oxford University Press, 2025) and Back to the Fifties: Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties (Oxford University Press, 2015). He lives in Philadelphia with his partner Rachel Collins.