From Connecticut to Cash

In this presentation, Dr. Jonathan Silverman will talk about how a New Wave and punk fan from New England ended up writing and co-writing two books about Johnny Cash. An intense curiosity about the United States as well as the need to put its culture in context drives a lot of his scholarship and writing. Silverman's training combines an American Studies PhD with a journalist’s background. In this talk, he will narrate his intellectual journey and how it seemingly inevitably intersected with the Man and Black, and then went international.