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CONTACT American Studies Program 1114 Polett Walk
(yannella@temple.edu)
Administrator: 215-204-1644
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FACULTY NEWS Look under the courses tab for some great new classes for Spring 2012. Miles Orvell's new book, Main Street: Myth, Memory, and the Dream of Community, will be published in 2012; an essay by Professor Orvell on the Farm Securtiy Administration will appear in 2012. Professor Orvell was named one of Temple's Great Teachers in 2011. In 2010, Wiley-Blackwell published two books by Phil Yannella: American Literature in Context from 1865 to 1929 and American Literature in Context after 1929. Seth C. Bruggeman's recent
publications include an edited volume of essays concerning birth and
commemoration in the United States and articles that explore, among other
topics, interpretive challenges in modern prison museums and the confluence of
memory, architecture, and river commerce in the antebellum
South. Bruggeman also directs Temple's Center for
Public History, which supports a variety of community engagement projects
throughout Philadelphia including a recent effort to support preservation of
the endangered USSOlympia.
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WHO WE ARE AND WHAT OUR STUDENTS DO
American Studies explores patterns and connections in US life. We look at the big themes, such as labor, mobility, migration, art, place, race, gender, and play. In the courses on social change, art, and work, for instance, we look at how Americans think, talk and express ideas in song, stories, and photographs. American Studies considers how these and other themes contribute to individual, family and community life. American Studies offers a lively way of understanding ever-changing and always contested values, looking at the politics of American culture through a variety of lenses. American Studies stresses the development of advanced-level reading, writing, and analytical skills that are necessary for successful careers in various fields. Over our forty-year history, people who have majored or minored in American Studies have gone on to business, medical, law, journalism, museum, civic, teaching, and publishing careers. People continue to write back to us about how valuable their American Studies educations have proven to be, testifying about how the knowledge and skills they learned with our faculty readily transferred into their careers. Lynsey Graeff, who graduated in 2012, summarized her American Studies experience:
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