[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]
May
2: Images of Internment: Three Representations: On the 80th
anniversary of an infamous broadside, a series on Japanese incarceration kicks
off with three cultural representations of the historic horror.
May
3: Images of Internment: The Civil Liberties Act: The series continues with
two things the 1988 law got right, and one way it came up short.
May
4: Images of Internment: Yuri Kochiyama: A few of the many reasons we
should better remember the inspiring activist, as the series rolls on.
May
5: Images of Internment: Allegiance and No No Boy: Two cultural works that
together help us better remember a particularly complex part of the story.
May
6: Images of Internment: Korematsu (and Endo): The series concludes with
two contradictory but interconnected Supreme Court cases that together helped
end incarceration.
May
7-8: Scholarship on Internment: A special week post on a handful of the
many scholars doing the vital work.
May
9: Spring Semester Reflections: Du Bois Seminar: The Spring 2022 semester
was the hardest yet, but it still had amazing individual moments. So for my
semester reflections I wanted to highlight some, starting with a wonderful
class-long conversation in my Du Bois seminar.
May
10: Spring Semester Reflections: First Year Writing II: The series
continues with great film studies conversations in my First Year Writing II
classes.
May
11: Spring Semester Reflections: American Lit II: The benefits of putting
multiple authors and texts in conversation with each other, as the series
teaches on.
May
12: Spring Semester Reflections: 19th Century Women Writers Grad
Class: Why I’m really glad I made a last-minute decision to include some
readings in the first meeting of my grad class.
May
13: Spring Semester Reflections: The Short Story Online: The series
concludes with the 21st century story to which students in my online
class responded particularly impressively.
May
14-15: Spring Semester Reflections: Adult Ed and Two Sandlots: A special
weekend post on what my adult learning courses contributed to my book manuscript
in progress.
May
16: Aviation Histories: The Wright Brothers: Ahead of an important aviation
anniversary, a series kicks off with three lesser-known facts about the
brothers who changed the world.
May
17: Aviation Histories: Charles Lindbergh: The series continues with how
history can overshadow history, and why we should partly resist that trend.
May
18: Aviation Histories: Eleanor Roosevelt and Tuskegee: The profoundly
historic flight that we should be much better remembered, as the series soars
on.
May
19: Aviation Histories: Howard Hughes: How to acclaimed films remember the
iconoclastic aviator, and how to complement both narratives.
May
20: Aviation Histories: Sully: The series concludes with the quiet lessons
of an averted disaster, and the film that didn’t quite learn them.
May
20-21: Aviation Histories: Amelia Earhart: For the 90th
anniversary of her historic flight, a few additional layers to Earhart’s solo
transatlantic journey.
May
23: Star Wars Studying: A Cross-Cultural Force: Ahead of the release of Obi Wan, a Star Wars series kicks off
with how the first film’s debt reveals the saga’s cross-cultural meanings.
May
24: Star Wars Studying: The Force Awakens and Marketing: The series
continues with why I loved the new trilogy’s innovative nostalgia, and why it’s
multi-level marketing worries me.
May
25: Star Wars Studying: Rogue One, Diversity, and War: Two ways my favorite
Star Wars film pushed the envelope for the saga, as the series blasts on.
May
26: Star Wars Studying: Yoda, Luke, and Love: What the wisest Jedi Master
got very wrong, and why the opposite lesson matters so much.
May
27: Star Wars Studying: The Thrawn Trilogy: The series concludes with what
Timothy Zahn’s novels meant to fans, and what that can tell us about genre
storytelling.
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Ben
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