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Category: Publications
Professor Melton discusses Twain’s first travel book
The Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College (New York) curates a wealth of material related to the life and work of Mark Twain, providing academic resources meeting the needs of a range of readers. In this article, published August 25, 2023, Professor Melton discusses Twain’s first travel book, The Innocents Abroad (1869). The Innocents Abroad: Mark Twain’s Seminal Narrative
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New Book Announcement
Dr. Mairin Odle’s book, Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, Nov. 2022) looks at body modifications as signs of alliance or conflict in the interactions between Natives and newcomers in 17th and 18th-century North America. https://www.pennpress.org/9781512823165/under-the-skin/
New Book Announcement
Dr. Jolene Hubbs is the author of Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature (Cambridge University Press, Jan. 2023), which explores how poor whites represented the anxieties of middle-class Americans and influenced major literary movements over the long twentieth century. https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/american-literature/class-whiteness-and-southern-literature?format=HB
Dr. Weisbard Publishes Article in Popular Music
Dr. Eric Weisbard published his article, “American Music Writing: An Unruly History,” in the journal Popular Music. In it, he explores the relationship among the terms “vernacular,” “sentimental,” and “literary” in writings about music from 1770 to the present. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/popular-music/article/american-music-writing-an-unruly-history/DAEE38C1D2D5F07D41E5CFE98288FC63 Thanks to the University of Alabama’s arrangement with Cambridge University Press, this article is permanently open access, meaning anybody who wants to can read it at any time.
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Dr. Weisbard on panel, “Family Meal – Soundtrack to Creativity: Refiguring American Music Authors”
Dr. Weisbard was part of a panel discussion, “Family Meal – Soundtrack to Creativity: Refiguring American Music Authors,” sponsored by UCLA’s Herb Albert School of Music, on April 29, 2021. The event featured authors from the Duke University Press book series, Refiguring American Music. https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/family-meal-soundtrack-to-creativity-refiguring-american-music-authors/
Dr. Innis-Jimenez on Smithsonian Roundtable, “How to Get Published”
Dr. Innis-Jimenez participated on the roundtable, “How to Get Published: Writing Your First Book,” sponsored by the Latino Center, Smithsonian Institute, on April 30, 2021. Dr. Innis-Jimenez is the editor of the Latinx Histories Book Series at the University of North Carolina Press.
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Former MA American Studies published book
Bryan Jack, an alumnus (MA American Studies 1996), Associate Professor of Historical Studies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and lives in St. Louis, MO. He recently wrote Southern History on Screen: Race and Rights 1976-2016 and is published by the University Press of Kentucky. https://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php…
New Book by AMS Faculty
Dr. Edward Tang has a new book out, From Confinement to Containment: Japanese/American Arts during the Early Cold War. It examines the lives and works of four Japanese and Japanese American figures – a novelist, a film star, a painter, and a children’s author – from the World War II era to the onset of the Cold War.
AMS Faculty Wins Book Award
The AMS Department congratulates Dr. Stacy Morgan for winning the 2018 Wayland D. Hand Prize for Outstanding Book in Folklore and History for his monograph Frankie and Johnny: Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017). In the words of the Award Committee, “This book analyzes a ballad/legend, “Frankie and Johnny,” in the historical context of the 1930s and finds that in tough times it was critical to building a […]