American Studies in Dialogue
Radical Reconstructions between Curriculum and Cultural Critique
Matthias Oppermann
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Matthias Oppermann, American Studies in Dialogue (2010), Campus Frankfurt / New York, 60486 Frankfurt/Main, ISBN: 9783593410197
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Description / Abstract
Seit seiner Entstehung in den 1930er- Jahren hat sich das Fach "American Studies" in den USA radikal verändert. Als Motor dieses Prozesses galt bislang die wissenschaftliche Forschung. Matthias Oppermann beleuchtet nun erstmals die Rolle der Lehre und zeigt, dass das Fach von Beginn an durch Kurse und Lehrpläne nicht nur didaktisch, sondern auch theoretisch kontinuierlich neu konstituiert wurde. Mit dieser Neubewertung liefert er ein revidiertes Verständnis der "American Studies" als interdisziplinäre Kulturwissenschaft im Spannungsfeld unterschiedlicher Theorien, Methoden und Forschungsgegenstände.
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Matthias Oppermann ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl North American Literary and Cultural Studies der Universität Bielefeld.
Table of content
- BEGINN
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Histories of Curricular Innovation
- 1. American Studies as Curricular Innovation: Interventions into Narratives of Field Formation
- 1.1 “A Subject So Familiar and So Simple: †American Literature and American Civilization in the College Curriculum
- 1.2 Money, Jingoism, and Folklore? American Studies after World War II
- 1.3 Bridging the Schisms of Culture and Method: “Peaux Rouges† and “Mandarins† in Minnesota
- 2. Maturity and Midlife Crises: Radical Teachers, Cultural Turns
- 2.1 Quantitative Growth and Organizational Structures in the 1960s and 1970s
- 2.2 Cultural Experts and Literary Amateurs in the Early 1960s
- 2.3 Radical Teaching Contra Cultural Consensus?
- 2.4 Collaborators, Computers, Problem-Solvers: Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Davis (Re-)Considered
- Trajectories of Transformation
- 3. Multiculturalism as Radical Critique: American Studies Beyond the Nation
- 3.1 Social Movements, European Theory, and the Search for Resistance
- 3.2 Contextualizing Cultural Studies: The Political Work of Cultural Critique
- 3.3 Dialogics Beyond Borders: American Culture Studies
- 3.4 From Coverage to Contact Zones: Curricula of Comparative U.S. Cultures
- 4. American Studies in the Age of Digital Cultures
- 4.1 American Studies and New Media
- 4.2 Culture and Database: George Allen†™s Curse, Chris Crocker†™s Cupcake
- 4.3 New Media†”New American Studies?
- Expansions of the Field-Imaginary
- 5. American Studies and the Learning Paradigm
- 5.1 Understanding Student Learning
- 5.2 Novice, Expert, and Beyond
- 5.3 Does American Studies Have “Signature Pedagogies†?
- 6. From Best Practices to Next Practices
- 6.1 Going Meta: Towards a Scholarship of Teaching in American Studies
- 6.2 Pedagogies and Epistemologies: Notes from the Visible Knowledge Project
- 6.3 Digital Storytelling: Adaptive, Embodied, and Socially Situated
- Epilogue
- List of Tables
- Bibliography
- Index