May
5: NeMLA Follow Ups: Reading American Rivers: A series reflecting on the
2014 NeMLA conference begins with the three impressive young scholars who
comprised my panel on American rivers.
May
6: NeMLA Follow Ups: The 21st Century Composition Classroom: The
series continues with two distinct but complementary visions for how we can
bring the classics into our courses.
May
7: NeMLA Follow Ups: Roundtable on Contingent Faculty: Three meaningful
ways we can move forward on a crucial issue, as the series rolls on.
May
8: NeMLA Follow Ups: More Inspiring Voices: On three additional, compelling
and inspiring panels I attended at the conference.
May
9: NeMLA Follow Ups: George Saunders: The series concludes with the funny
and inspiring reading by one of our most talented contemporary writers.
May
10-11: NeMLA Follow Ups: What’s Next: Following up the week’s relfections
with a few of the ways in which you can contribute to NeMLA in the months and
years to come.
May
12: Spring 2014 Recaps: 21st Century Writing: A series of
reflections on the Spring semester opens with a few exemplary papers from my
wonderful Writing II course.
May
13: Spring 2014 Recaps: The Post-War Novel: The series continues with two
provocative questions raised by the great students in my senior-level seminar.
May
14: Spring 2014 Recaps: Sci Fi/Fantasy: A few ways to parse the definitions
of and differences between two imaginative genres, as the series rolls on.
May
15: Spring 2014 Recaps: American Lit: On my evolving thoughts on the
balance between my voice and those of my students in a survey course.
May
16: Spring 2014 Recaps: Three Presentations: The series concludes with
takeaways from three of my spring talks and presentations.
May
17-18: Summer 2014 Preview: A follow up to the week’s series, on one of my
summer research plans and how you can help with and contribute to it.
May
19: AmericanStudying Harvard Movies: With Honors: A series on cultural
images of Harvard and higher ed starts with a film that embodies a particularly
stereotypical view of the institution.
May
20: AmericanStudying Harvard Movies: Good Will Hunting: The series
continues with the film that relies on but also challenges some of our hoariest
clichés about Harvard.
May
21: AmericanStudying Harvard Movies: The Social Network: On success,
rejection, and the role of social communities in our lives, as the series rolls
on.
May
22: AmericanStudying Harvard Movies: Love Story: On fantasy images of love
and college, and a tradition that passes them on to each generation of Harvard
students.
May
23: AmericanStudying Harvard Movies: How High: The series concludes with
the lowbrow stoner comedy that nonetheless both extends and complicates prior
images of Harvard.
May
24-25: Crowd-sourced Images of College: Fellow AmericanStudiers share some
images of higher ed that stand out to them—add yours in comments, please!
May
26: Memory and Memorials: A series inspired by Memorial Day begins with my
annual post on the holiday’s histories and meanings.
May
27: Remembering William Dawes: The series continues with how and why we
could better remember Paul Revere’s fellow midnight rider.
May
28: Remembering Benedict Arnold: Reiterating and yet complicating the
memories of our most famous traitor, as the series rolls on.
May
29: Remembering the Battle of New Orleans: On a few important reasons to
remember one of our least significant military victories.
May
30: Remembering Lee and Longstreet: The series concludes with the general
we remember, the one we don’t, and the stakes in shifting that balance.
Next series starts Monday,
Ben
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