[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
September
29: American Collectors: Isabella Stewart Gardner: A series on famous
collections begins with the life and legacy inside my favorite museum.
September
30: American Collectors: P.T. Barnum: The series continues with two sides
to the famous showman, and how to reconcile them.
October
1: American Collectors: George Catlin: What the artist and collector got
right, what he got wrong, and what we owe him in any case, as the series continues.
October
2: American Collectors: The Smithsonian: Three exemplary moments in the
history of our national collection.
October
3: American Collectors: Phil Collins!: The series concludes with a wacky
recent moment and collection, and what it can help us analyze.
October
4-5: Crowd-sourced American Collections: But wait, a crowd-sourced post on
collectors and collections rounds off the series—add your thoughts in comments!
October
6: AmericanStudying Appalachia: Wrong Turn and Deliverance: A series on
cultural images of Appalachia starts with films about cultural clashes, and how
to complicate them.
October
7: AmericanStudying Appalachia: Miner Texts: The series continues with
three different types of representations of mining lives and communities.
October
8: AmericanStudying Appalachia: Murfree’s Mountains: Multiple compelling
reasons to read one of Appalachia’s most talented writers, as the series rolls
on.
October
9: AmericanStudying Appalachia: The Black Mountain Poets: How cultural and
historical contexts can add to our understanding of individual authors and
works.
October
10: AmericanStudying Appalachia: The Fire and the Furnace: The series
concludes with the interesting messages behind a couple macho action flicks.
October
11-12: AmericanStudying Appalachia: Online Resources: For those interested
in further AppalachianStudying, a few great websites and resources.
October
13: New NEASA Books: Beyond the White Negro: A series highlighting recent
books by NEASA colleagues starts with an exemplary work of public scholarship.
October
14: New NEASA Books: Inventing the Egghead: The series continues with a
book that reveals the crucial stakes of inter-scholarly debates.
October
15: New NEASA Books: Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life: The
compelling historical biography that’s also a lot more, as the series rolls on.
October
16: New NEASA Books: American Blood: The challenging academic analysis that
reminds us how constructed and contested even the seemingly simplest American
concepts are.
October
17: New NEASA Books: A History of Spiritualism and the Occult in Salem: The
series concludes with the latest SalemStudying book by one of my favorite
AmericanStudiers.
October
18-19: My Own Current Projects!: As I
wait for word on the status of my own next book, an update on three spaces to
which I’ve recently contributed pieces.
October
20: De Lange Follow Ups: The Rice CTE: A series following up my opportunity
to serve as a Social Media Fellow for the De Lange Conference begins with the
impressive and important work being done at Rice University’s Center for
Teaching Excellence.
October
21: De Lange Follow Ups: Ruth Simmons: The series continues with two vital
contributions from the conference’s most inspiring keynote speaker.
October
22: De Lange Follow Ups: Keynote Speakers: Some of the provocative questions raised by
the rest of the keynote speakers (questions that need more answers, including
yours!), as the series rolls on.
October
23: De Lange Follow Ups: Pedagogy Sessions: On my specific and broader
takeaways from the conference’s wonderful breakout sessions.
October
24: De Lange Follow Ups: Backchannel Conversations?: The series concludes
with three ways to think about our conference-long Twitter responses and
conversations.
October
25-26: De Lange Follow Ups: My Fellow Tweeters: One more De Lange post, on
my amazing group of fellow social media chroniclers.
October
27: AmericanSpooking: The Saw Series: A Halloween-inspired series starts
with the question of morality in horror films, and whether it matters.
October
28: AmericanSpooking: Found Footage Films: The series continues with the
appeals and the limitations of the ubiquitous contemporary genre.
October
29: AmericanSpooking: The Birds and Psycho: Defamiliarization, horror
films, and social prejudice, as the series rolls on.
October
30: AmericanSpooking: Those Scary Foreigners: The terrifying travails of
young Americans abroad in two recent, hugely successful film franchises.
October
31: AmericanSpooking: The Scream Series: The series concludes with the
benefits and the drawbacks of metafiction, in any genre.
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Topics you’d
like to see covered on the blog? Guest Posts you’d like to contribute? Lemme
know, please!
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