American Studies Association
2003 Annual Convention
Special Student Event
Breakfast with Champions

The American Studies Association Students¹ Committee is pleased to announce a new program for the 2003 ASA Convention. Breakfast with Champions provides an opportunity for students to meet with ³champions² in a variety of fields Scholars who have pursued fields of inquiry that expand, renew and challenge American Studies, and who are committed to doing the same within the professional community. These have agreed to spend an hour with students discussing selected topics and the challenges they pose to American Studies past, present and future. Please join us for Breakfast with Champions in the Graduate Student Hospitality Lounge at ASA.

Friday, October 17, 9:00-10:00 a.m.
Graduate Student Hospitality Lounge

Transnationalism and Border Studies

Lisa Lowe and Shelley Streeby

Lisa Lowe is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Her research and teaching interests include modern French, British, and American studies, and the topic of Asian migration within European and American modernity. She has published books on orientalism, immigration, and globalization. Her current project, The Intimacies of Four Continents, is a study of the international conditions for modern humanism and humanistic knowledge.

Shelley Streeby is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Her research and teaching interests include U.S. Literature and Culture; Sensationalism and Sentimentalism; Popular and Mass Culture; Inter-American Studies; U.S. Imperialism; Science Fiction; and Working-Class Cultures. She is the author of American Sensations: Class, Race, and Production of Popular Culture (University of California Press, 2002).

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Friday, October 17, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Graduate Student Hospitality Lounge

Race and Whiteness

Cheryl Harris and David Roediger

Cheryl Harris is Professor of Law at the University of California Los Angeles. Professor Harris practiced law for more than a decade before beginning her teaching career. Her teaching and research focus on critical race theory and civil rights law. Her publications include ³What the Supreme Court did not Hear in Grutter and Gratz² (Drake Law Review, 2003) and ³Whiteness as Property² (Harvard Law Review, 1993).

David Roediger is Kendrick C. Babcock Professor History and director of the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Professor Roediger¹s research interests include immigration and racial formation in the United States. Recent publications include Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past and the tenth anniversary edition of The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the making of the American Working Class.

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Saturday, October 18, 9:00-10:00 a.m.
Graduate Student Hospitality Lounge

Gender Studies

Ann Cvetkovich and Avery Gordon

Ann Cvetkovich is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches a variety of courses, including Women, Gender, and 19th Century Fiction, as well as Queer Theory and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies. Her publications include ³The Powers of Seeing and Being Seen: Paris is Burning and Truth or Dare,² in Film Theory Goes to the Movies (1993), and Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism (1992).

Avery Gordon is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination (1997) and Mapping Multiculturalism (1996, with Christopher Newfield). Her teaching and research interests include social theory, gender, race, and culture.

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Saturday, October 18, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Graduate Student Hospitality Lounge

Popular, Visual and Material Culture

Erica Doss and Donna Cassidy

Erika Doss is a professor of fine arts and the director of the American Studies Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Author of Benton, Pollock and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism, she edited Looking at Life Magazine in 2001 and published Twentieth-Century American Art a year later.

Donna Cassidy is the director of American and New England Studies and professor of art history at the University of Southern Maine. She has published Painting the Musical City: Jazz and Cultural Identity in American Art, 1910-1940. "On the Subject of Nativeness": From Regionalism to race in Marsden Hartley's Late Art, will be published in the fall of 2004.

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