[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
November
4: 9 Years of AmericanStudier: Origin Points: An anniversary meta-series
kicks off with the more overt and more subtle reasons why I began AmericanStudier.
November
5: 9 Years of AmericanStudier: Personal Benefits: The series continues with
three of the many ways I’ve benefitted from blogging.
November
6: 9 Years of AmericanStudier: Sharing Your Voices: Three stages in my
evolving and increasingly central goal of featuring other voices on the blog,
as the series rolls on.
November
7: 9 Years of AmericanStudier: Other Online Gigs: Tracing a parallel online
writing personal history, across my three most extended such gigs.
November
8: 9 Years of AmericanStudier: What’s Next: The series concludes with plans
for the blog’s future, and a plea for your input!
November
9-10: Must-Read Scholarly Blogs: A special weekend post on some of the
individual and group scholarly blogs that have inspired and continued to
inspire my own!
November
11: Veterans’ Week: A Veteran Performance: A Veterans’ Day series kicks off
with the film and performance that help us consider the full spectrum of
veterans’ experiences.
November
12: Veterans’ Week: Band of Brothers: The series continues with
commemoration and remembrance in the WWII miniseries.
November
13: Veterans’ Week: “The Red Convertible”: The powerful short story that
helps us consider both PTSD and Native American veterans, as the series rolls
on.
November
14: Veterans’ Week: African Americans in World War I: Two opposed yet
interconnected ways to better remember a community of veterans.
November
15: Veterans’ Week: Veterans Against the War(s): The series concludes with
a longstanding veterans’ community we hardly ever recognize, and my personal
connection to it.
November
16-17: Kent Rose’s Guest Post: How I Got to Nelson Algren: My latest Guest
Post, featuring the great singer/songwriter Kent Rose on his experiences with a
largely forgotten novelist.
November
18: Local Color Stories: “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”:
On the anniversary of its publication, Twain’s story and its use of a frame
narrator/structure kicks off a series on American local color fiction.
November
19: Local Color Stories: “The Outcasts of Poker Flat”: The series continues
with the far more serious story that both relies upon and challenges
stereotypes.
November
20: Local Color Stories: “The Revolt of Mother”: A writer and story that
are anything but slight or narrow, as the series rolls on.
November
21: Local Color Stories: “Under the Lion’s Paw”: How a 130-year old short
story can speak as profoundly to our own moment as it did its own.
November
22: Local Color Stories: “The Goophered Grapevine”: The series concludes
with my favorite author and the dangers and possibilities of working with a
hugely popular genre.
November
23-24: Teaching Local Color: A special weekend post, on how three classes
of mine illustrate three distinct pedagogical roles for local color stories.
November
25-29: Sabbatical Thanks: For Thanksgiving, three of the reasons I’m so
thankful for my Fall 2019 sabbatical, from a book tour to a new book to
afternoons with my sons.
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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