Emily Tarvin published “YOU LOOK DISGUSTING: A Case Study of the YouTube Beauty Community,” in the Fall 2018 issue of Studies in Popular Culture. Emily is currently enrolled in the Texts and Technology doctoral program at the University of Central Florida and teaches a Cultural Studies course there.
Category: Alumni
AMS Alum in Documentary on Lynching
Lily Hoyle, a 12-year-old from Mobile, AL, created a short documentary about the 1981 lynching of 19-year-old Michael Donald, “The Lynching That Brought Down the Klan in Alabama.” An AMS alumnus, Derek Barry, now an American Studies teacher at the Alabama School of Math and Science, appears as a guest commentator in the film. https://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/07/alabama_12-year-olds_lynching.html
AMS Alum Savannah Harper Publishes in The Explicator
The American Studies Department is pleased to congratulate Savannah Harper, whose essay “Greenery as a Symbol of Immigrant Hardship and Vulnerability in Gish Jen’s Typical American” appears in the latest issue of The Explicator, a scholarly journal focused on text-based criticism. Savannah, who earned her AMS degree from UA in 2016, wrote the paper for Dr. Hubbs’s Fictions of American Identity course in fall 2015. You can read Savannah’s essay here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00144940.2018.1430675
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Mark your calendars! Upcoming “Picturing Queer Souths” lecture by Dr. John Howard, visiting professor, Alabama alumnus, and professor at King’s College London
Congratulations to Sylvio Lynch III
The Department of American Studies congratulates Sylvio Lynch III (MA, 2014) of Richmond, VA for successfully completing his qualifying exams for a Ph.D. in American Studies at Bowling Green State University. We wish him all the best in his dissertation writing!
“‘To See Justice Done’: Letters from the Scottsboro Trials,” an online scholarly resource
http://scottsboroboysletters.as.ua.edu/ Just Launched by University of Alabama graduate Margaret Sasser (M.A. in American Studies, 2014) and Dr. Ellen Griffith Spears, associate professor in New College and the Department of American Studies, and the Alabama Digital Humanities Center: “‘To See Justice Done’: Letters from the Scottsboro Trials,” an online scholarly resource for researching social justice and African American history. In 1931, in the Depression Era South, nine young African Americans hopped a train in a Chattanooga freight yard and headed west […]