U.S. Mission to Germany

Fachleiter Conference / Amerikastudientagung

 
32. Amerikastudientagung
der Amerikanischen Botschaft und des Amerikazentrum Hamburg
vom 9. - 12. Mai 2002

"The American Myth(s) Revisited"
 
Referenten
 

Martha BaylesMartha Bayles is a well-known cultural critic. She also teaches in Civilization and Literature at Claremont McKenna College. Her expertise is in popular culture, the mass media, and literature. She serves as Visiting Faculty at the Drama and Dance Department, Colorado College (spring 2002), and has been Director of the speaker series and seminar on "Democracy and Art" for the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, Claremont McKenna College. She is a Contributor to the New York Times Book Review and works as Contributing and Literary Editor for the Wilson Quarterly. Her publications include Hole in Our Soul : The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music (1994), " CULTURAL AFTERSHOCKS : Closing the Curtain on ‘Perverse Modernism’", THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, The Chronicle Review (October 26, 2001).
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Udo Hebel is Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of Regensburg. He also taught at the Universities of Mainz, Potsdam, and Freiburg. He was a Visiting Scholar to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Harvard University as well as Distinguished Max Kade Visiting Professor at Colorado College, Colorado Springs. He was an American Studies Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and a Peterson Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA. He published "Romaninterpretation als Textarchäologie" (1989), "Intertextuality, Allusion, and Quotation" (1989), and "Those Images of Jealuosie": Identitäten und Alteritäten im puritanischen Neuengland des 17. Jahrhunderts (1997); he edited Transatlantic Encounters (1995) and The Construction and Contestation of American Cultures and Identities in the Early National Period (1999). He is currently editing a collection of essays on "Sites of Memory in American Literatures and Cultures" (forth-coming 2002). His more than thirty articles include studies of twentieth-century American fiction and drama, African American women playwrights, American festive culture, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England culture, American life-writing, German-American imagology, intermediality, theories of American Studies. He serves as Vice President of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA) and Deputy Director of the Bavarian American Academy.
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Agymah KamauAgymah Kamau (angefragt), Professor, Department of English, University of Oklahoma. He is the author of two novels. Flickering Shadows (Coffee House Press, 1996) was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, Quality Paperback Book Club's New Voices Award and was listed among the Library Journal's top 20 novels of 1996. His second novel, Pictures of a Dying Man (Coffee House Press, 1999), won the state of Virginia's 1999 Literary Award (fiction), ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year award, and was listed among the Village Voice's best 25 books of 1999. He currently is working on his third novel.
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Sherry Lee LinkonSherry Lee Linkon, Professor, Department of English, Co-Director, Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University, Ohio. She has edited the following books: In Her Own Voice : Nineteenth-Century American Women Essayists (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol.2043) together with Barbara Bowen (Editor) (Hardcover - October 1997). Steeltown U.S.A : Work and Memory in Youngstown (Culture America.) ) together with John Russo (Hardcover - April 2002), Radical Revisions : Rereading 1930s Culture together with by Bill Mullen (Editor), (Paperback - June 1996), Teaching Working Class by Sherry Lee Linkon (Editor) (Paperback May 1999)
 

Barbra S. Morris, Senior Lecturer in the English Department, the Sweetland Writing Center, the Residential College, and the Film/Video Program, University of Michigan. Her primary interest are: Media and Cultural Studies; Composition and Rhetoric; Collaborative Community Service; Television and Film Criticism. Secondary Interests: Visual Arts Education; International Networking; University and K-12 Cross-Curricular Literacy Publications: "Toward Creating a Television Research Community in Your Classroom"; "Writing and the Media"; "Reading Replay in Live Televised Text"; "Authorship of Metaphor in Live Television Sportscasts"; "Students Analyze Responses to Monica Lewinsky's Story: The Televised Interview as a Focus Group Research Text"; "Why is George So Funny?, Television Comedy, Frickster Heroin and Cultural Studies."
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Dr. John RussoJohn B. Russo, Coordinator of the Labor Studies Program in the Williamson College of Business Administration at Youngstown State University. He received his doctorate from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he also served as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Labor Relations and Research Center. Dr. Russo has written widely of labor and social issues and is recognized as a national expert on labor unions and working-class issues. His current research interests involve a comparative study of automobile assembly plants in Mexico and the United States, and a study of representations of the working class in popular culture. His most recent work is a new book co-authored with Sherry Linkon, "Steeltown, USA: Work and Memory in Youngstown." For his research and community activities, Dr. Russo has been awarded Distinguished Professorship Awards in both scholarship and public service by Youngstown State University. Dr. Russo is also a founder and the co-director of the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University. The Center is an interdisciplinary center for research, teaching, and community activity on working-class life, work, culture, and thought. Since its inception, the CWCS has provided a regional and national forum for scholarly activities; supported YSU faculty research; fostered collaborations within the academic institution and between the university and community; developed an annual lecture series; and become a national and international clearinghouse for information on working-class culture and pedagogy.
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Peter SkerryPeter Skerry, Professor, Department of Government, Claremont McKenna College. Peter Skerry is Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where his research focuses on immigration policy and the politics of the U.S. census. He has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and served as Director of Washington Programs for UCLA's Center for American Politics and Public Policy, where he also taught political science. He was formerly a Research Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Legislative Director for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. He currently serves on the Board of Advisory Editors of Society magazine. His writings on politics, racial and ethnic issues, immigration and social policy have appeared in a variety of scholarly and general interest publications, including Society, The New Republic, Slate, The Public Interest, The Wilson Quarterly, National Review, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. His book, Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority (Harvard University Press), was awarded the 1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His most recent book is Counting on the Census? Race, Group Identity, and the Evasion of Politics, published this year by the Brookings Institution Press.
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