[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
May
4: NeMLA 2015 Recaps: Italian American Inspirations: A series following up
this year’s NeMLA conference kicks off with the great seminar with which my
conference began.
May
5: NeMLA 2015 Recaps: Roundtable on Writing Prolifically: The series
continues with a few takeaways from my session on strategies for prolific
writing.
May
6: NeMLA 2015 Recaps: Three Amazing Performances: The wonderful keynote and
creative readings with which the conference opened, as the series rolls on.
May
7: NeMLA 2015 Recaps: Three More Great Panels: Quick highlights from three
of the other compelling panels I attended at NeMLA 2015.
May
8: NeMLA 2015 Recaps: New Colleagues: The series concludes by introducing
the newest members of the NeMLA Board, with whom I’m excited to work on…
May
9-10: NeMLA 2016 Plans: … next year’s conference in Hartford, for which
I’ll be President and for which I could use your input in all the ways I
highlight in this weekend special post!
May
11: Semester Conclusions: I Can’t Breathe: A series recapping the Spring
2015 semester starts with my most radical classroom moment to date, and why it
wasn’t.
May
12: Semester Conclusions: A Tough Crowd: The series continues with my most
resistant Adult Learning class, and why that was a good thing.
May
13: Semester Conclusions: Fanny Fern Rocks: The senior seminar experience
that validated one of my strongest scholarly beliefs, as the series rolls on.
May
14: Semester Conclusions: Football Debates: Two complementary spaces where
Fitchburg State discussed and debated football in America this semester.
May
15: Semester Conclusions: The Mara Award and Inspiring Teachers: The series
concludes with tributes to some of the best teachers I’ve known, in honor of my
receiving an FSU teaching award.
May
16-17: Summer and Fall Plans: A special weekend post looking forward to
some of my summer and fall courses—add your own plans in comments, please!
May
18: BlockbusterStudying II: Back to the Future: My annual series
AmericanStudying summer blockbusters kicks off with visions of the past in the
Michael J. Fox hit.
May
19: BlockbusterStudying II: Ghostbusters: The series continues with
science, the supernatural, and weird tales in the ground-breaking horror
comedy.
May
20: BlockbusterStudying II: Jurassic Park: Two ways the groundbreaking film
oversimplified the novel and why they matter, as the series rolls on.
May
21: BlockbusterStudying II: Broken Arrow and Face/Off: Hong Kong legend
John Woo’s failed transition to Hollywood, and how we should remember it
instead.
May
22: BlockbusterStudying II: E.T. and Aliens: The series concludes with the
many differences between, and one important similarity of, the two
extraterrestrial blockbusters.
May
23-24: Crowd-sourced BlockbusterStudying: My latest crowd-sourced post,
featuring the responses and nominees of fellow BlockbusterStudiers.
May
25: Remembering Memorial Day: A Memorial Day series kicks off with my
annual post on how we should better remember the holiday’s origins.
May
26: Decoration Day Histories: Frederick Douglass: The series continues with
Douglass’s amazing and vital 1871 Decoration Day speech.
May
27: Decoration Day Histories: Roger Pryor: The historic shifts exemplified
by a Northern invitation to a very Southern speaker, as the Memorial Day series
rolls on.
May
28: Decoration Day Histories: African Americans and Decoration Day: The
importance of remembering the connection between African Americans and the
holiday’s origin points.
May
29: Decoration Day Histories: So What?: The series concludes with three
reasons to remember Memorial Day’s Decoration Day origins.
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Topics you’d
like to see covered in this space? Guest Posts you’d like to write? Lemme know!
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