"What if American Studies is defined not so much in the pages of
the most cutting-edge publications, but through what happens in our
classrooms and other learning spaces?" In Teaching American Studies
Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello, Joseph Entin, and Rebecca Hill ask a
diverse group of American Studies educators to respond to that
question by writing chapters about teaching that use a classroom
activity or a particular course to reflect on the state of the
field of American Studies. Teaching American Studies speaks to
teachers with a wide range of relationships to the field. To start,
it is a useful how-to guide for faculty who might be new to, or
unfamiliar with, American Studies. Each author brings the reader
into their classes to offer specific, concrete details about their
pedagogical practice and their students' learning. The resulting
chapters connect theory and educational action as well as share
challenges, difficulties, and lessons learned. The volume also
provides a collective impression of American Studies from the point
of view of students and teachers. What primary and secondary texts
and what theoretical challenges and issues do faculty use to
organize their teaching? How does the teaching we do respond to our
institutional and educational contexts? How do our experiences and
those of our students challenge or change our understanding of
American Studies? Chapters in this collection discuss teaching a
broad range of materials, from memoirs and novels by Anne Moody and
Octavia Butler, to cutting-edge cultural theory, to the widely used
collection Keywords for American Cultural Studies. But the chapters
in this collection are also about dancing, eating, and walking
around a campus to view statues and gravestones. They are about
teaching during the era of Donald Trump, of Black Lives Matter,
about giving up authority in the classroom, about teaching in the
South, in New England, in the Midwest, and for ten-minute intervals
at a cooking school in New Jersey. Teaching American Studies is
both a new way to think about American Studies and a timely
collection of effective ways to teach about race, gender,
sexuality, and power in a moment of political polarization and
intense public scrutiny of universities.
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