[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]
September
2: Fall Semester Previews: 20C Af Am Lit: For this year’s Fall Semester
previews I focused on things I’m especially excited for, starting with student
presentations in 20C Af Am Lit!
September
3: Fall Semester Previews: First-Year Writing: The series continues with
adding digital options to my longstanding First-Year Writing course.
September
4: Fall Semester Previews: English Studies Capstone: Reading Jesmyn Ward’s
vital new novel in Senior Capstone, as the series rolls on.
September
5: Fall Semester Previews: American Lit II Online: What different
modalities of teaching require and help me to do.
September
6: Fall Semester Previews: Aidan at Vanderbilt!: The series concludes with
an even more special Fall Semester, my older son’s first!
September 7-8: Fall Semester
Previews: My New Podcast!: I didn’t get to write a post on the podcast, but
please check it out at that hyperlink!
September
9: Classic TV Studying: Amos ‘n’ Andy: A series inspired by a couple TV
anniversaries kicks off with a strikingly different way an influential early
sitcom could have gone.
September
10: Classic TV Studying: Sitcom Dads: The series continues with the cliched
extremes of sitcom dads, and the men in the middle.
September
11: Classic TV Studying: Little House on the Prairie: For its 50th
anniversary, on a key difference between the Little House show and books.
September
12: Classic TV Studying: Lassie: For the show’s 70th
anniversary, takeaways from three iterations of the classic canine hero.
September
13: Classic TV Studying: I Love Lucy: Why the groundbreaking sitcom’s
comfortable familiarity reflects its most radical elements, as the series
watches on.
September
14-15: TV Studying: Bridgerton and The Bear: The series concludes with a special
post on three contexts for two recent TV hits.
September
16: Summer Reads: The Good Lord Bird: A series on books I read for pleasure
this summer kicks off with James McBride’s historical fiction masterpiece.
September
17: Summer Reads: Interior Chinatown:
The series continues with Charles Yu’s experimental and excellent novel.
September
18: Summer Reads: The Cold Millions: Jess Walter’s impassioned and
important historical novel, as the series reads on.
September
19: Summer Reads: Let Us Descend: A bracing and beautiful recent novel that
I’ll be teaching in my Senior Capstone course!
September
20: Summer Reads: Yellowface: The series concludes with a complex and biting
book about culture, cultural appropriation, and much more.
September
23: Folk Figures: Pecos Bill and Joaquin Murrieta: In honor of Johnny
Appleseed’s 250th birthday, a folk heroes series kicks off with two
competing frontier figures.
September
24: Folk Figures: John Henry: The series continues with a link to my Saturday
Evening Post Considering History column on railroad heroes.
September
25: Folk Figures: Molly Pitcher: Why the iconic war hero might not have
existed, and why she matters in any case, as the series rolls on.
September
26: Folk Figures: Johnny Appleseed: For his 250th, two contrasting
contexts for the iconic folk figure.
September
27: Folk Figures: MrBeast and 21st Century Folk Heroes: And the
series concludes with one of my favorite recent posts, inspired by conversations
with my sons and my wife alike!
Next
series starts Monday,
Ben
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