... for undergraduates. At the same time, digital humanities initiatives are making it increasingly possible for undergraduates to work hands-on with primary sources, and a number of university-sponsored efforts are being made to process and digitize neglected African American archives. Many of these projects make use...

...Jennifer J. Smith This article argues that the short-story cycle should be central to teaching American literature, because the genre crystallizes major tensions of American literary history: marginality and inclusion, the individual and the community, and the formation of a national literature...

...Richard C. Raymond Drawing on the author’s experience at the University of Pristina in Kosovo, the article narrates writing-to-learn strategies designed to help students to navigate a thematic approach to twentieth-century American poetry. The piece also situates this narration within the ongoing...

...Karen Weekes Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Volume 5, Number 3, © 2005 Duke University Press 461 Taking Stock in Live People: Using Contemporary Literary Journals in the American Literature Classroom Karen Weekes . . . but by-and-by she let...

...Joe Lockard; Jillian Sandell This essay discusses the history of American literature anthologies from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century; examines their racial and gender inclusions and exclusions; and argues that literary anthologies have played an important role...

...Lisa King This article discusses how teaching students to recognize the contemporary American Indian theoretical concepts of “rhetorical sovereignty” and “rhetorical alliance” in Native texts can help deepen understanding of American Indian voices and histories in an appropriate context, while also...

...Andrew Hock Soon Ng This article argues that teaching Asian American literature should include immeasurable and nontangible factors that accompany racial grief, such as cultural betrayal, the trauma of belonging interstitially, and the sensation of displacement. I propose that these be introduced...

...Staci M. Perryman-Clark In response to the need for additional teacher-research on African American students, this article offers a case study of how one African American student-writer successfully produces expository writing in an Afrocentric first-year writing course at Michigan State University...

...Alexis McGee Other People's English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy . By Young Vershawn Ashanti , Barrett Rusty , Young-Rivera Y'Shanda , and Lovejoy Kim Brian . New York : Teachers College Press , 2014 . 190 pages . © 2016 by Duke...

... the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America . New York: W. W. Norton. Jaskoski, Helen. 1996 . “Beauty before Me: Notes on House Made of Dawn.” In Teaching American Ethnic Literatures , ed., John Maitino and David Peck, 37 -54. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press...

...Linda Wagner-Martin © 2002 Duke University Press 2002 Barzun, Jacques. 1945 . Teacher in America . New York: Little, Brown. Fiedler, Leslie A. 1960 . Love and Death in the American Novel . New York: Criterion. R e v i e w s Forum Editor s Note: This forum is the first...

... York:Penguin Putnam. Gould, Eliga H. 2000 . The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Snader, Joe. 2000 . Caught between Worlds:British Captivity Narratives in Fact and Fiction . Lexington:University...

...David G. Nicholls © 2002 Duke University Press 2002 American Culture and Literature. 2000 –2001. On-line academic catalog , Bilkent University. Accessed on 26 April 2001 at catalog.bilkent.edu.tr/current/dep/d22.html . Aytür, Necla. 1996 . “Interview with Ayse Kirtunç.” Journal...

...Stephanie C. Palmer Reflections on Teaching America Abroad Introduction Benton Jay Komins American studies scholarship and pedagogy tend to devote themselves to demystifying hegemonic American culture; we ask readers and students alike to examine their subject positions within American ideology...

... that sports and academics are powerful presences in the modern American university, but their arenas are traditionally defined as mutually exclusive, and their objectives appear to be at cross-purposes. The course that I have described defies this false dichotomy. It combined extensive readings with rigorous...

...David G. Nicholls © 2002 Duke University Press 2002 American Culture and Literature. 2000 –2001. On-line academic catalog , Bilkent University. Accessed on 26 April 2001 at catalog.bilkent.edu.tr/current/dep/d22.html . Aytür, Necla. 1996 . “Interview with Ayse Kirtunç.” Journal...

...Melissa Dennihy This essay discusses how and why one instructor uses a wiki as a space for students in a partially online American literature survey course to construct a class time line of American literature and history. Through participation in the class wiki, students are able to engage...

...Brianne Jaquette; Shelli Homer; Gregory D. Specter This article addresses the absence of substantial and sustained online teaching communities of college literature professors and uses the website Pedagogy & American Literary Studies to illustrate the strategies and challenges involved...

...Christopher M. Parsons From Boys to Men: Rhetorics of Emergent American Masculinity , by Jones Leigh Ann . Urbana, IL : National Council of Teachers of English , 2016 . Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Works Cited Ballingall Timothy . 2017 . Review...