Teaching American studies : state of the classroom as state of the field / edited by Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello, Joseph Entin, and Rebecca Hill ; with a foreword by Roderick A. Ferguson and an afterword by Kandice Chuh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duclos-Orsello, Elizabeth Ann, editor.

Entin, Joseph B., editor.

Hill, Rebecca Nell, 1969- editor.

Ferguson, Roderick A., writer of foreword.

Chuh, Kandice, 1968- writer of foreword.

Series:

Book collections on Project MUSE.

Book collections on Project MUSE

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teaching--Methodology.

Teaching.

United States--Study and teaching.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2021]

Summary:

"This collection of twenty essays by new and established American studies scholars presents a wide array of actual classroom experiences and teaching methods, as well as the solutions that they and other American studies teachers have devised to meet the myriad challenges facing the field. Teaching American Studies will act as a resource for faculty new to teaching American studies, a springboard for those seeking to renew or transform their current courses, and a touchstone for academics in other disciplines who wish to include elements of American studies theories, practices, or scholarship into their pedagogy. Where other volumes on American studies pedagogy have largely focused on providing course content, though, this volume's contributors demonstrate and contend that the classroom is the public face of American studies, the place where theory and practice converge, and ultimately where the field takes shape. In doing so, the book also joins public conversations about higher education, the politics of academic speech, reflecting present-day social and political concerns in the classroom, and student outreach"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: How Pedagogical Practice Defines American Studies

Part I. Behind the Syllabus: Planning and Transforming Whole Courses

1. Course Objectives: On Resisting Solutions to the "Race Problem" in the Southern STEM Classroom

2. Teaching an Introductory Master's Degree Course

3. Teaching the Medical Other: Thinking beyond Assumptions through the History of Midwifery

4. Always the Good Guys: Latinx Studies and the Myth of American Exceptionalism

Part II. Unpacking the Familiar, Introducing the New: Teaching Key Texts and Terms

5. When an Old Assignment Becomes New Again: Teaching Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter

6. Coalition Time in the American Studies Classroom

7. Teaching American Studies One Word at a Time

8. Our "Positive Obsession": Teaching Interdisciplinary American Studies through Octavia Butler's Life and Work

Part III. Individual Assignments: Challenges, Adjustments, and Innovations

9. Teaching Theory in American Studies: Efforts at Unsettling Home in Three Assignments

10. Reppin' American Studies: Asian Pacific Islander American Studies and Popular Culture as Pedagogy

11. "Mister, How Come We Never Learned This?": Teaching American Studies in a High School Setting

12. Let This Seminar Be a Starting Point: Digital Storytelling and the African American Experience

Part IV. Movements and/in the Classroom: Affect, Students, and Shifting Boundaries in American Studies

13. "Gonna Stomp Some Rump": Embodied Learning and the Politics of Pleasure

14. Don't Look Away: The Bodies of American Studies

15. Making American Studies Great Again?: Teaching the Nation under Trumpism

16. #BlackLivesMatter and Feminist Pedagogy: Teaching a Movement Unfolding

Part V. American Studies Outside: Rethinking the Classroom and Sites of Learning

17. Obama Loves Sweet Potato Pie: American Studies at a Food Service Training Academy

18. Ruined for Life: Cocreation, Service-Learning, and Taking American Studies Scholarship Seriously in an American Studies Intro Course

19. Monumental Protest

or, Remaking Places through AR

20. "The Walk of Memory": An Excursion into Race, Place, and History in the (Southern) American Studies Classroom

Afterword

List of Contributors

Index

Back Cover

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-7006-3237-9

OCLC:

1287099118