Saturday, September 28, 2024

September 28-29, 2024: September 2024 Recap

[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]

September 2: Fall Semester Previews: 20C Af Am Lit: For this year’s Fall Semester previews I focused on things I’m especially excited for, starting with student presentations in 20C Af Am Lit!

September 3: Fall Semester Previews: First-Year Writing: The series continues with adding digital options to my longstanding First-Year Writing course.

September 4: Fall Semester Previews: English Studies Capstone: Reading Jesmyn Ward’s vital new novel in Senior Capstone, as the series rolls on.

September 5: Fall Semester Previews: American Lit II Online: What different modalities of teaching require and help me to do.

September 6: Fall Semester Previews: Aidan at Vanderbilt!: The series concludes with an even more special Fall Semester, my older son’s first!

September 7-8: Fall Semester Previews: My New Podcast!: I didn’t get to write a post on the podcast, but please check it out at that hyperlink!

September 9: Classic TV Studying: Amos ‘n’ Andy: A series inspired by a couple TV anniversaries kicks off with a strikingly different way an influential early sitcom could have gone.

September 10: Classic TV Studying: Sitcom Dads: The series continues with the cliched extremes of sitcom dads, and the men in the middle.

September 11: Classic TV Studying: Little House on the Prairie: For its 50th anniversary, on a key difference between the Little House show and books.

September 12: Classic TV Studying: Lassie: For the show’s 70th anniversary, takeaways from three iterations of the classic canine hero.

September 13: Classic TV Studying: I Love Lucy: Why the groundbreaking sitcom’s comfortable familiarity reflects its most radical elements, as the series watches on.  

September 14-15: TV Studying: Bridgerton and The Bear: The series concludes with a special post on three contexts for two recent TV hits.

September 16: Summer Reads: The Good Lord Bird: A series on books I read for pleasure this summer kicks off with James McBride’s historical fiction masterpiece.

September 17: Summer Reads:  Interior Chinatown: The series continues with Charles Yu’s experimental and excellent novel.

September 18: Summer Reads: The Cold Millions: Jess Walter’s impassioned and important historical novel, as the series reads on.

September 19: Summer Reads: Let Us Descend: A bracing and beautiful recent novel that I’ll be teaching in my Senior Capstone course!

September 20: Summer Reads: Yellowface: The series concludes with a complex and biting book about culture, cultural appropriation, and much more.

September 23: Folk Figures: Pecos Bill and Joaquin Murrieta: In honor of Johnny Appleseed’s 250th birthday, a folk heroes series kicks off with two competing frontier figures.

September 24: Folk Figures: John Henry: The series continues with a link to my Saturday Evening Post Considering History column on railroad heroes.

September 25: Folk Figures: Molly Pitcher: Why the iconic war hero might not have existed, and why she matters in any case, as the series rolls on.

September 26: Folk Figures: Johnny Appleseed: For his 250th, two contrasting contexts for the iconic folk figure.

September 27: Folk Figures: MrBeast and 21st Century Folk Heroes: And the series concludes with one of my favorite recent posts, inspired by conversations with my sons and my wife alike!

Next series starts Monday,

Ben

PS. Topics you’d like to see covered in this space? Guest Posts you’d like to contribute? Lemme know!

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