Dr. Mike Innis-Jimenez is quoted in two international papers, the Manila Standard (Philippines) and Yahoo! Actualities (France) about the fight in Alabama over establishing the first Amazon labor union. https://manilastandard.net/business/biz-plus/350616/alabama-could-be-home-to-amazon-s-first-union-in-us.html
Congratulations to Riecher Denmark
Congratulations to Riecher Denmark, an MA student in American Studies, who published an essay, What Barn? The Dialectical Revolt of Sarah Penn in Freeman’s “Revolt of ‘Mother’,” which appears in
Dr. Edward Tang attends Yale University symposium on Japanese American and Japanese Brazilian art and literature.
Dr. Edward Tang was invited to participate in the symposium “Japanese American, Japanese Brazilian: The Art and Literature of Transnational Belonging,” hosted by Yale University’s Council on East Asian Studies
Dr. Weisbard quoted in Variety on the passing of music journalist Nick Tosches
In his upcoming book “Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music,” writer Eric Weisbard talks about Tosches’ impact on rock writing, and the many cultural touchstones and detours he brought
Dr. Innis-Jimenez: “Migrations: Encounters, Dignity, and Human Rights”
Dr. Michael Innis-Jimenez is the keynote speaker at the Latin American and Latino Studies Symposium, “Migrations: Encounters, Dignity, and Human Rights” at the University of Arkansas. The title of his
Dr. Morgan talks “Black Panther” on WVUA News
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2018 Legacy Award
American Studies Department would like to congratulate Dr. Ellen Spears for being the recipient of the 2018 Legacy Award. https://www.ua.edu/news/2018/01/ua-student-instructor-to-be-honored-at-realizing-the-dream-banquet/
Essay from AMS course published in literary journal
Congratulations to Mollie Beth Wallace, whose essay from Dr. Hubbs’s spring 2015 Fictions of American Identity course was published in the most recent issue of The Explicator. Check out Mollie Beth’s essay here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00144940.2015.1133556