Gus Seligmann
Subj: CONNECTIONS March (2/4)
SYLLABUS EXCHANGES/TEACHING METHODS
TEACHING AMERICAN STUDIES ABROAD -- SYLLABI EXCHANGE, NETWORKING
POSSIBILITIES: The following scholars participated in the ASA's
"Teaching American Studies Abroad" Survey. We offer here a brief
summary of each respondent's interests and syllabi resources as a
means of fostering communication between scholars interested in
teaching abroad. Only participants who were willing to share
their syllabi in this forum are included. Connections
subscribers can contact the respondents directly. Each entry
contains: scholar's area of specialization; countries/regions in
which scholar has experience or interest; syllabi title(s);
contact address. A second set of respondents will be included in
the April electronic edition of Connections.
1. Areas of specialization: Antebellum American Literature and
Culture, Irish Immigration, American Literary Canon. Country of
interest/experience: Hungary, Ireland, Central Europe. Syllabi
available to share: American Canon; American Myth-making in Prose
and Film; Twentieth-Century American Literature. Contact R.
Dunne; email: dunne@ccsua.ctstateu.edu
2. Areas of specialization: 20th-century Politics and Culture,
Jewish History. Countries of interest/experience: Israel,
France, Belgium, Greece, Thailand. Syllabi available to share:
American Individualism; Journalism in Modern America; The Culture
of the Cold War. Contact S. Whitfield; email:
swhitfield@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
3. Areas of specialization: 19th-century and 20th-century
American Literature, Feminist Criticism, Women's Poetry.
Countries of interest/experience: Great Britain, Canada, Spain,
Italy, Portugal. Syllabi available to share: Melville-Whitman;
Individual and Society; Black American Women Poets; Contemporary
American Women Poets. Contact E. Georgoudaki; Dept. of American
Literature, Aristotle University, 54006 Thessalonike, Greece;
tel: (031) 997451.
4. Areas of specialization: Modern American Culture, Ethnic and
Immigration Literature and Culture; Women's History and
Literature; 20th-century Literature. Countries of
interest/experience: Western Europe, Latin America. Syllabi
available to share: American Dreams/American Realities: Men and
Women in American Society and Culture, 1620-1860; Multi-Ethnic
Literature of the U.S.: Text and Context. Contact L. Rudnick;
email: rudnick@umbsky.cc.umb.edu
5. Areas of specialization: American Political Thought, American
Revolution, Comparative Political Cultures. Countries of
interest/experience: China, Japan, England, Netherlands, Russia.
Syllabi available to share: Foundations of American Political
Thought; Modern American Political Thought; Freedom, Democracy
and Prosperity in the Modern Era; Global Community; Critical
Issues for the United States. Contact R. Ketcham; email:
rketcham@mailbox.syr.edu
6. Areas of specialization: American Studies Methods,
Ethnography, Modern American Culture, Internationalism, Work
Cultures. Countries of interest/experience: Asia and Europe.
Syllabi available to share: America as a Foreign Country;
International Views of America. Contact R. Horwitz; email:
richard-horwitz@uiowa.edu
7. Areas of specialization: American Studies. Countries of
interest/experience: Norway, Denmark, Sweden. Fulbright
participant would like to network regarding establishing
international exchanges in American Studies. Contact S. Harbison,
70 Taylor Street, Amherst, MA 01002 United States; tel: 413/253-
7840.
8. Areas of specialization: Environmental History and
Literature, American Literature. Countries of
interest/experience: Spain. Contact P. Terrie; email:
pterrie@bgnet.bgsu.edu
9. Areas of specialization: American Religions, Ethnicity.
Countries of interest/experience: India, Austria, Germany.
Contact C. McDannell; email: Colleen.McD@m.cc.utah.edu
10. Areas of specialization: U.S. Hispanic/Latino Culture and
Literature. Countries of interest/experience: Latin America,
Spain. Syllabi available to share: U.S. Hispanic/Latino Writing;
Colombian Writings, U.S. Experience. Contact J. C. Miller; email:
jmiller@uccs.edu
11. Areas of specialization: Popular Culture, Mobility, American
Aesthetics, Ethnic Studies. Countries of interest/experience:
Spain, Latin America. Syllabi available to share: United States
as Seen from Abroad. Contact M. Rockland; American Studies,
Douglass Campus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903
United States; tel: 908/932-9179.
12. Areas of specialization: Political Culture, History of
Feminism, History of Prostitution. Countries of
interest/experience: Eastern Europe, Austria. Syllabi available
to share: Immigrant Experience; Cold War Culture; History of
Feminism; The 1960s. Contact R. Rosen; email:
rerosen@ucdavis.edu
13. Areas of specialization: American Studies. Syllabi available
to share: Hiroshima: History, Ethics, and Memory. Contact L.
Maley, 44 Brittany Farms Rd., New Britain, CT 06053 United
States; tel: 860/224-3935.
14. Areas of specialization: Foreign Relations/Cross-Cultural
Studies (20th-century United States and Japan); Gender Studies;
Intellectual History. Countries of interest/experience: Japan,
Asia in general. Syllabi available to share: Crossing
Boundaries, Constructing Selves: American Encounters with
Difference From Columbus to Japan; Cultural History of the
Occupation of Japan; God's Role in the Making of America; Making
Sense of the 1960s. Contact G. F. Schoel; email:
gfscho@mail.wm.edu
15. Areas of specialization: American Studies, Civics.
Countries of interest/experience: United States, England.
Syllabi available to share: Russia to America, Youth and Youth
Organizations. Contact I. Sokolovskaya, Essenin U1 59/12,
Ryazan, Russia 390046; tel: (0912) 77 90 30.
16. Areas of specialization: Public Relations and Journalism,
Education. Countries of interest/experience: Russia. Syllabi
available to share: Public Relations and Journalism. Contact T.
N. Styopkina; email: root@lib.vucnit.voronizh.su
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CONNECTIONS: American History and Culture
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