"conference "Looking forward, 2014" at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies in the fall of 2014" preface Christoph Ribbat: Scenes from the American studies locker room Section I - Reading narrative, narrative readings: American studies and the methods of text James Dorson: Seeing double: Reading naturalism after the new historicism Section II - Field and spaces of cultural exchange Florian Sedlmeier: On the conditions of the field imagination: Realism and William Dean Howells Section III - New urbanism Julia Sattler: Finding words: American studies in dialogue with urban planning Section IV - Affective resonances Rita Felski: Identification and critique Section V - The uses of interdisciplinarity Boris Vormann: Greater than the sum of its parts: American studies as interdisciplinary area studies Section VI - Literary actions Babette B. Tischleder: Thinking objects, building worlds: Why the new materialisms deserve literary imagination Section VII - Where are we now? Daniel Stein: Can superhero comics studies develop a method? And what does American studies have to do with it? Klaus Benesch: A Matter of scale: Is close reading to American studies what place is to space? Winfried Fluck: Narratives about the American south: From cavalier myth to new southern studies Aleksandras Boss, Martin Klepper: Toward a poetics of practice: Self improvement, 'Nancy Drew', and the 'Chicago Defender' Martin Lüthe: Travelling cultures in the here, there, and now of a new black atlantic Barbara Buchenau, Jens Gurr: On the textuality if American cities and their others: A disputation Heike Paul: Public feeling, tacit knowledge, and civil sentimentalism in contemporary US culture Simon Wendt: American studies as a multi/inter/transdisciplinary endeavor? Problems, challenges, and the potential of heroism for collaborative research Sabine Sielke: Ecotoning inter- and transdisciplinarity Laura Bieger: Belonging as critical method - 13 propositions Johannes Voelz: Transvaluations of security Ruth Mayer, Alexander Starre: Media/knowledge: American(ist) epistemic formats 1900/2000 Frank Kelleter: DISCIPLINE COOL. Notes, quotes, tweets, and facebook postings on the study of American self-studies (LookingForward remix) |
