More graduate-level amazingness

Grad students- amazing courses just keep on coming from AMS. Here are two more for fall with the inimitable Sherrie Tucker. Click the images for fliers.

Hip hop studies this summer

How about a little hip-hop? KU theatre professor and AMS scholar Nicole Hodges Persley is bringing her smash hit course to the summer schedule. Click the flyer for more.

Plenty for Grad Students in Fall 2012

AMS grad students will have more options than usual on the schedule this fall-- in addition to our core courses, be sure to check out these seminars by faculty and friends of AMS:

Improvisation, Bodies, and Difference- Sherrie Tucker

Theories of Race and Performance- Nicole Hodges Persley

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Seminar- Randal Jelks

U.S. Women of Color, Theory and Praxis- Sherrie Tucker

Also, click on the image for Charles Eldredge's seminar on 1930s American painting.

Aging in Film

In connection with the Boomer Futures project, Cheryl Lester and Dennis Domer will offer a course on "Aging in Film" this spring. Click the flyers for info!

Recent Latina Writers

Marta Caminero-Santangelo will be offering a definitive course on literature by Latinas this spring in the English Department. Her description:

Course Description: This class will focus on readings in recent U.S. Latina literature, including literature by women of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican descent. We will examine issues such as the construction of “ethnic,” “pan-ethnic,” “national,” and “transnational” identities; the representation of history through narrative; linguistic “differences” in the text; the tensions of assimilation and cultural preservation (including changing practices in religion, language, and gender roles); intersections of ethnic identity with race, gender, and sexuality; revisions of myths and history; genre forms such as memoir, magical realism, and testimonio, as well as experimental or mixed genres; the textual representation of political issues; the development of political consciousness; and possible strategies of resistance to cultural and/or political oppressions. The course will be discussion-oriented rather than lecture-based; participation and attendance will be considered in determining the final grade. The primary goals in this course are to introduce students to a range of Latina writing over the last 25 years and to help develop an understanding of some of the critical issues involved in the study of U.S. Latina literature today. In the process, we will of course be working on further developing skills associated with the study of literature: close reading, analysis, the use of critical, theoretical, historical, and biographical secondary materials, and the development and support of oral and written arguments. Texts might include: Santiago, When I Was Puerto Rican; Anzaldúa, Borderlands / La Frontera; Viramontes, Under the Feet of Jesus; García, Dreaming in Cuban; Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies; Martínez, Mother Tongue; Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek; Moraga, Giving Up the Ghost; Castillo The Guardians.

Check the online course schedule for ENGL 573.

small-form American Identities (Honors) now open

Dr. Ray Pence has announced that his honors section of AMS 112- American Identities (Honors) is open to students who are not in the honors program. Contact Dr. Pence for info or permission.

Seminar in Ethnography

As one of many graduate offerings from AMS next semester, Ben Chappell will teach AMS 998, U.S. Ethnography in Spring 2012. Click the image for a flyer.