[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
April
2: Theater in America: Provincetown and Trifles: A theateriffic series
starts with the moment, community, and play that signaled a dramatic shift.
April
3: Theater in America: The Iceman Cometh: The series continues with a dark
and compelling portrait of hollow dreams, and where it comes up short.
April
4: Theater in America: Depression Drama and Odets: Activist drama in- and
outside of approved spaces, as the series plays on.
April
5: Theater in America: Hansberry’s Husband and Wife: Lorraine Hansberry’s
realistic, flawed, and deeply moving married couple.
April
6: Theater in America: Angels in America and Rent: The series concludes with
two dramatic works that helped change our national conversations on AIDS.
April
7-8: Crowd-sourced American Drama: My latest crowd-sourced post, featuring
the responses and thoughts of fellow AmericanStudiers. Add yours in comments,
please!
April
9: Great American Novel Studying: The Blithedale Romance: A series on great
American novels starts with the novel that shifted yet continued Hawthorne’s
streak of masterpieces.
April
10: Great American Novel Studying: The Great Gatsby: On Gatsby’s anniversary, the series
continues with the novel’s limits and how to complement them.
April
11: Great American Novel Studying: The Marrow of Tradition: A character whose
presence and absence both reflect a novel’s greatness, as the series rolls on.
April
12: Great American Novel Studying: Ceremony: Three pages that exemplify
Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel’s inspiring greatness.
April
13: Great American Novel Studying: Endings: The series concludes with
happy, sad, and perfect endings to great American novels.
April
14-15: Great American Novel Studying: Recent Contenders: A special weekend
post highlighting five recent novels that stake their claim to the GAN title.
April
16: NeMLA Recaps: Back to the Board: A series recapping the recent
Northeast MLA Convention starts with two reasons why I’m rejoining the NeMLA
Board.
April
17: NeMLA Recaps: West of Sunset and Historical Fiction: The series continues
with two takeaways from Stewart O’Nan’s inspiring opening night creative event.
April
18: NeMLA Recaps: Castillo, Nixon, and the Present Crises: The depressing
yet bracingly hopeful themes of two special lectures, as the series rolls on.
April
19: NeMLA Recaps: Two Teaching Roundtables: What I learned from two
impressive roundtables on the fraught and crucial question of Teaching under
Trump.
April
20: NeMLA Recaps: Three Other Inspiring Panels: The series concludes with
three of the many great American Lit panels I attended as the incoming Area
Director.
April
21-22: NeMLA and You: A special weekend post, on three ways you can get
involved with NeMLA for next year’s convention in Washington, DC and beyond!
April
23: Assassination Studying: In the Line of Fire: An assassination series
start with the scene that humanizes the JFK assassination, and the flaws of the
film that surrounds it.
April
24: Assassination Studying: James Garfield: The series continues with the
mundane nature of our second presidential assassination, and why it matters.
April
25: Assassination Studying: William McKinley: “Where was he radicalized?”
and the McKinley assassination, as the series rolls on.
April
26: Assassination Studying: John Wilkes Booth: On the date of his death,
three stages in the life and story of our most dramatic assassin.
April
27: Assassination Studying: Squeaky Fromme: The series concludes with the silly
and deadly serious sides to Gerald Ford’s wannabe assassin.
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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