[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]
September
4: Fall Semester Previews: Ethnic American Literature: For this semester’s
previews series I focused on ongoing challenges, starting with teaching Ethnic
American lit & history in 2023.
September
5: Fall Semester Previews: English Studies Capstone: The series continues
with how to frame and teach a future-focused class in a moment when the future
is so fraught.
September
6: Fall Semester Previews: First-Year Writing I: Teaching writing in the
age of ChatGPT, as the series previews on.
September
7: Fall Semester Previews: American Lit Online: A continued challenge of
online-only teaching, and one for which I’d love ideas and perspectives!
September
8: Fall Semester Previews: Departmental Program Review: The series
concludes with ongoing departmental work for the year and why it matters so
much.
September
9-10: Update on My Current Book Project: And speaking of ongoing work, a
semi-update on and request for connections with my new book project.
September
11: AmericanStudying The Rising: “Into the Fire” and “The Rising”: A
September 11th series on Springsteen’s amazing cultural response to
that tragedy starts with two complementary but also contrasting ways to see
firefighters and their families.
September
12: AmericanStudying The Rising: “Paradise” and “Worlds Apart”: The series
continues with two very different ways that The
Rising pushes past stereotypes of Muslims.
September
13: AmericanStudying The Rising: “You’re Missing” and “Mary’s Place”: A
pair of couplets that reflect two sides of loss and griefs, as the series rises
on.
September
14: AmericanStudying The Rising: “The Fuse” and “Let’s Be Friends (Skin to
Skin)”: In response to a frustrating current controversy, two Bruce songs
that remind us of the vital role of cultural works about sex in challenging
times.
September
15: AmericanStudying The Rising: “My City of Ruins” and “Superman (It’s Not
Easy)”: The series concludes with two accidentally resonant songs that
highlight how art can radically change meaning alongside unfolding histories.
September
18: AmericanStudying the Panic of 1873: Two Fires: For the 150th
anniversary of its starting point, a series on the Panic of 1873 kicks off with
two disasters that helped set the stage for that crash.
September
19: AmericanStudying the Panic of 1873: The Coinage Act: The series
continues with a controversial 1873 law and the causes and contingencies of
history.
September
20: AmericanStudying the Panic of 1873: Two Panics: What was quite similar
and what importantly distinct about two 19th century Panics, as the
series rolls on.
September
21: AmericanStudying the Panic of 1873: The Railroad Strike: How a hugely
important national labor action was influenced by the Panic, and vice versa.
September
22: AmericanStudying the Panic of 1873: Anti-Chinese Prejudice: The series
concludes with the Panic’s key role in three stages of the evolving
anti-Chinese movement.
September
23-24: AmericanStudying the Panic of 1873: 2023 Connections: A special
weekend post on one overt and two more subtle (but perhaps even more important)
echoes of the 1870s.
September
25: Cultural Falls: Young Adult Lit: An autumn series on cultural images of
falls kicks off with two young adult novels that fractured my innocence
alongside that of their protagonists.
September
26: Cultural Falls: American Pastoral: The series continues with Philip
Roth’s masterful historical novel which embodies both the extreme and the
poignant 60s losses of innocence.
September
27: Cultural Falls: The Body and Stand By Me: A novella and film adaptation
that, in their divergent portrayals of the loss of innocence, also reflect the
complexities of adaptation, as the series falls on.
September
28: Cultural Falls: Presumed Innocent: The legal thriller and film
adaptation that exemplify the multiple layers of revelations about innocence
and guilt in the best mystery fiction.
September
29: Cultural Falls: “American Pie”: The series and month conclude with the
straightforward and subtler sides to the famous ballad about individual and
cultural losses of innocence.
Next
series starts Monday,
Ben
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