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Keywords for American Cultural Studies
 
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Collaborative in design and execution, Keywords for American Cultural Studies collects sixty-four new essays from interdisciplinary scholars, each on a single term such as America, body, ethnicity, and religion. Read more...
This website invites you to revise, extend, and add to the research conversations contained in Keywords for American Cultural StudiesRead more...
Keywords for American Cultural Studies and this website are pedagogical tools that can be used by courses and working groups. Read more...
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Monday, April 6, 2009:
Keywords editor Bruce Burgett and program coordinator Deborah Kimmey will appear at the Digital Media Town Hall for the Science Studies Network at the University of Washington. Click here to view their presentation. >> Learn More
 
Friday, March 13, 2009:
Building on the momentum from their "Keywords in the Study of Environment and Culture" panel at the 2008 ASA, Joni Adamson and Bill Gleason of the ASA's Environment and Culture Caucus have launched a special Keywords Blog to create a new "state of the field" inventory and analysis of the central terms in the study of environment and culture. Read Vermonja R. Alston's keyword essay on environment and contribute to the conversation. >> Learn More
 
October 17, 2008:
Keywords editor Glenn Hendler and program coordinator Deborah Kimmey participated in the "American Studies at the Digital Crossroads" panel at the 2008 ASA Annual Convention. They joined Randy Bass of the ASA’s Crossroads website and Tara McPherson and Sharon Daniels from the online journal Vectors, and American Quarterly editor Curtis Marez as commentator and Keywords editor Bruce Burgett as moderator. Click here to view their presentation. You can also read the preconference and postconference discussion on the Keywords Blog. >> Learn More
 
October 1, 2008:
Keywords Kiosk: We're pleased to feature four student collaborative keyword essays, written and developed in the Keywords Collaboratory. Read their essays published online. In the Instructor's Exchange, you can also read instructor Steven Tobias's pedagogical statement that frames the work he asked his students to produce during an 11-week quarter. >> Learn More
 
August 30, 2008:
Four instructors who used the Keywords Collaboratory during the 2007-2008 school term recently signed online to chat about the unique benefits and challenges of using a wiki in the classroom. Read their transcript, and then post comments and questions in the Keywords Blog by clicking on “join the discussion.” >> Learn More
 
April 26, 2008:
James Bowman’s review of Keywords for American Cultural Studies in the Wall Street Journal is still open for comments in the blog. >> Learn More
 
May 22, 2008:
Eric Lott, Siobhan Somerville, and Karim Murji joined co-editors of Keywords for American Cultural Studies Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler for a panel discussion on "Between Cultural Studies and American Studies: Keywords" at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) at New York University.
 
March 27, 2008:
Vijay Prashad spoke at Fordham University as part of a series of events related to Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake. Read the discussion of Prashad's keyword entry on "Orientalism" in the blog. >> Learn More
 
March 3 2008:
Brent Hayes Edwards, author of the keyword entry on "Diaspora," spoke at Fordham University in an event sponsored by the Department of African and African American Studies, the Program in American Studies, and other programs. >> Learn More
 
October 12, 2007:
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Mary Pat Brady, David Kazanjian, Moon-Ho Jung, and Lisa Lowe discussed "Transhemispheric Keywords:America, Border, Colonial, Coolie and Globalization" with Keywords for American Cultural Studies co-editors Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler at a roundtable at the American Studies Association annual convention in Philadelphia. >> Learn More
 
 
 
 
 
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