Coffee, tea, and juice will be offered gratis to graduate students courtesy of the ASA. Muffins, bagels, and the like will be available for purchase.
CHAIR:
- Amanda Rees, American Studies Program, University of Kansas
PANELISTS:
- Vicki L. Ruiz, Department of History, Arizona State University
- Cathy N. Davidson, Department of English, Duke University
- Jon Butler, American Studies Program, Yale University
- Richard Yarborough, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
- Charles Bassett, American Studies Program, Colby College
This workshop, sponsored by the Students' Committee, will deal with mentoring in American Studies graduate programs. In an age of increasing challenges on the job market and in a field that often lacks a clear center, faculty support and guidance is a fundamental part of American Studies graduate students' success. We invite students and faculty to attend and help survey the current terrain of AMS mentoring. Our goal is to better define the mentor's role in American Studies, and provide participants with suggestions on how to strengthen the process in their own departments.
CHAIR:
- Ellen Seiter, Executive Council, Society for Cinema Studies
PAPERS:
- Janet Staiger, Former President, Society for Cinema Studies
Society for Cinema Studies and National Issues of Moving Image Culture
- Janice R. Welsch, President, Society for Cinema Studies
American Studies Association/Society for Cinema Studies Diversity: Initiatives and Challenges
- David Desser, Editor, Cinema Journal
Hollywood USA: Society for Cinema Studies, American Studies Association and the Challenges of Film Culture Today
- Ed Guerrero, Executive Council, Society for Cinema Studies
Opportunities, Challenges and Perspectives: Toward an Society for Cinema StudiesAmerican Studies Association Collaboration
CHAIR:
- Kate Delaney, Cultural Attache, U.S. Embassy Warsaw
PANELISTS:
- Victor R. Greene, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Jonathan Scott Holloway, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
- Daniel Horowitz, American Studies Program, Smith College
- Renee Landrum, American Studies Program, Smith College
- David L. Mitchell, American Studies Program, University of Wyoming
- Joan Korenman, Women's Studies Program, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
COMMENT:
- The Audience
The participants of this session represent several ASA committees (Women's, Minority Scholars', International, Program Directors', and Students'). Panelists and the audience will discuss the implications of new media--such as e-mail, the Web, CD-ROMs, interactive video, and other electronic technologies--for the reshaping of American Studies as a discipline and as a professional practice, both within the United States and abroad. Discussants will also consider issues such as how these media may affect the work of ASA committees, the evaluation of practitioners for tenure and/or promotion, the preparation of graduate students, and other subjects of concern to the ASA and its members.
CHAIR:
- José Quiroga, Department of Romance Languages and Literature, George Washington University
PAPERS:
- Ernesto Chávez, Department of History, University of Texas, El Paso
Chicano History Goes Public (Again)
- Emma Pérez, Department of History, University of Texas, El Paso
History's Imprints Upon the Colonial Body: La Malinche as "Phallic" Mother
- Chéla Sandoval, Department of Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Culture Wars and De-Colonial Modes of Consciousness
COMMENTS:
- José Quiroga
CHAIR:
- Joanne Jacobson, Department of English, Yeshiva University
PAPERS:
- Elise Lemire, Literature Board, State University of New York, Purchase
Jefferson's Example: Debating Interracial Sex in Res Publica
- Peter Coviello, Department of English, Cornell University
White Desire: Poe and Heterosexuality
- Jennie A. Kassanoff, Department of English, Barnard College
Eugenics, Taxidermy, and Tableaux Vivants: Staging Race in Edith Whartons's The House of Mirth
COMMENT:
- Martha Hodes, Department of History, New York University
MODERATOR:
- Alan R. Velie, Department of English, University of Oklahoma
FACILITATORS:
- Clara Sue Kidwell, Director of Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma
- Gerald Vizenor, Department of Native American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
- Arnold Krupat, Literature Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College
- Lucy Maddox, Department of English, Georgetown University
- Phil Deloria, Department of History, University of Colorado
This conversation between the panelists and the audience will focus on the nature of Native American Studies and its place in American Studies. Participants will discuss Native American identity, the background knowledge necessary to teach Native American literature, and the American Indian canon. Topics to be broached include the extent that genetic heritage, culture, or tribal membership determine who is Indian; how much specific knowledge of particular tribes is necessary to teach novels about Blackfeet, Sioux, or Jemez characters; and how and where Indian literature fits into the general curriculum.
CHAIR:
- David Nye, Center for American Studies, Odense University, Denmark
PAPERS:
- Albert George Armijo, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Presentations of a California/Californian Identity at International Expositions.
- Bruno Giberti, Architecture Department, California Polytechnic State University
The American System of Awards: Order and Anxiety at the 1876 United States Centennial Exhibition
PAPERS:
- Mary Esteve, Department of English, Texas Christian University
The Crowd, the Public, the Nation: Turn-of-the Century Sociology and Benjamin Kilburn's Photographic Representation of the World's Columbian Exposition
COMMENT:
- David Nye
CHAIR:
- Zita C. Nunes, Department of English, Columbia University
PAPERS:
- Elizabeth Clement, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
"With the Help of God, I Think We Could Make a Success Opening a Whore House": Women and the Business of Prostitution in Turn-of-the-Century New York
- Stephanie Bower, Department of Literature, Claremont McKenna College
The Rhetoric of White Slavery: Aliens and Machines in Reginald Kauffman's House of Bondage
- Charles L. Ponce de Leon, Department of Humanities, State University of New York, Purchase
From "Loose Women" to "White Slaves": Race-Mixing and Commercial Amusements in Urban America
COMMENTS:
- Zita C. Nunes
CHAIR:
- Nancy Tomes, Department of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook
PAPERS:
- John W. Crowley, Department of English, Syracuse University
Off Skid Row: Marty Mann and the Selling of "Alcoholism"
- Lori E. Rotskoff, American Studies Program, Yale University
Engendering Recovery: The Rise of Self-Help Groups in the 1950s
- Elayne Rapping, Department of Communications, Adelphi University
Talk Shows, Gender and the Discourse of Addiction
COMMENTS:
- Nancy Tomes
CHAIR:
- Sandra Tomc, Department of English, University of British Columbia
PAPERS:
- Mark A.R. Kemp, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh
Borders at the Borders: (Trans) Nationalism and the North American Publishing Industry
- Bianca M. Falbo, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh
Re-Imagining Niagara
- Susie O'Brien, Department of English, McMaster University
Nature's Nation/National Natures: Ecocriticism and the American Border
COMMENTS:
- Sandra Tomc
CHAIR:
- Patricia Aufderheide, School of Communication, American University
PAPERS:
- Susan J. Douglas, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan
Letting the Boys Be Boys: Talk Radio, Male Hysteria, and Political Discourse in the 1980s
- Mark Crispin Miller, Media Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University
Scud Studs and Stormin' Norman: Desert Storm as Gendered Spectacle
- Eric Guthey, School of Business Administration, University of Michigan
Corporate Cojones, or the Shifting Public Images of American Business Leadership in the Era of the Junk Bond Raiders
COMMENT:
- Patricia Aufderheide
CHAIR:
- Lawrence Chisholm, Department of American Studies, State University of New York, Buffalo
PAPERS:
- Gail Jardine, American Studies Program, San Jose State University
Paroxyms of Power: White Masculine Rage and the American Militia Movement
- Andrea Levine, Department of English, George Washington University
Put Your Body on the Line: White Masculinity at the Pentagon
- A. Keith Goshorn, Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Understanding the Many Faces of the "New World Order": How Different American Cultural Publics Can Fear, Praise, Condemn, or Welcome Its Arrival
COMMENT:
- Lawrence Chisholm
CHAIR:
- Patrick Miller, Department of History, Northeastern Illinois University
PAPERS:
- John Pettegrew, Department of History, Lehigh University
The Convergence of Anthropology and History in Examining the Masculinist Meanings of Turn-of-the-Twentieth Century College Football
- Ayesha E. Shariff, American Studies Program, Smith College
Not Safe at Home: Gender and Domesticity in Early Twentieth Century Baseball Fiction
- Wanda Wakefield, Department of History, Middle Tennessee State University
Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali: Race and Masculinity in Wartime
COMMENT:
- Patrick Miller
CHAIR:
- Peter C. Holloran, Department of History, Northeastern University
PAPERS:
- Chad Berry, Department of History, Maryville College
South by Midwest: The Great (White) Migration, 19101980
- Janette Thomas Greenwood, Department of History, Clark University
Before the Great Migration: The Civil WarEra Migration of Southern Blacks to New England
- John Frederick Potter, Department of History, Clark University
Saving the "Anxious and Aimless": The Debate Over State Subsidies for the Emigration of "Excess" Massachusetts Women to the Far West in 1865
COMMENT:
- Eric Schneider, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
CHAIR:
- Allan Winkler, Department of History, Miami University
PAPERS:
- Catherine M. Eagan, Department of English, Boston College
When Did the Irish Become White? A Reexamination of the Irish Racial Identity
- May Fu, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
Black Masks, Racial Masquerade: Staging Race and Labor in Chinese Laundry Scene
- Matthew Basso, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
Reel-ality: Representations of Race, Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in World War II Newsreels
COMMENT:
- Allan Winkler
CHAIR:
- Amanda Rees, American Studies Program, University of Kansas
PANELISTS:
- John Stephens, Executive Director, American Studies Association
- Jon Butler, American Studies Program, Yale University
- Susan Smulyan, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
- Jeanne Houck, Clio Inc.
- Riv Ellen Prell, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
COMMENT:
- The Audience
This is the first in a two-year series of panel sessions sponsored by the ASA Students' Committee on the state of the American Studies job market. The panel will present the results of the ASA Ph.D. Employment Survey that will then lead to a discussion on job options for students of American Studies. The audience will be asked to join in a discussion of the issues facing students graduating from American Studies programs, including: How is the job market shifting in response to changes in American Studies as a field? How do terminal masters degrees figure into the emerging market? Should Ph.D. programs enrollments be constrained by the availability of academic jobs? Should programs be preparing their graduates for the non-academic market place? The Students' Committee will be developing the second session of this two-year series (for ASA 1998 in Seattle) based on the discussions and responses to this year's panel. Students, scholars, and faculty are encouraged to attend and participate in this important forum on the future of American Studies.