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Locating American Studies
The essays of Locating American Studies: the Evolution of a Discipline, edited by Lucy Maddox, first appeared in American Quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association.
American Quarterly is available online to the UMass community through the library's subscriptions to:
JSTOR (1949-1995)
Project MUSE (1996 to present).
1. Can "American Studies" Develop a Method?
Henry Nash Smith
American Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 2, Part 2. (Summer, 1957), pp. 197-208.
2. History and the American Intellectual: Uses of a Usable Past
Warren I. Susman
American Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 2, Part 2: Supplement. (Summer, 1964), pp. 243-263.
3. The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860
Barbara Welter
American Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 2, Part 1. (Summer, 1966), pp. 151-174.
4. Myth and Symbol in American Studies
Bruce Kuklick
American Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 4. (Oct., 1972), pp. 435-450.
5. Literature and the Historian
R. Gordon Kelly
American Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 2. (May, 1974), pp. 141-159.
6. Blackface Minstrelsy and Jacksonian Ideology
Alexander Saxton
American Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 1. (Mar., 1975), pp. 3-28.
7. The Republican Mother: Women and the Enlightenment-An American Perspective
Linda Kerber
American Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 2, Special Issue: An American Enlightenment. (Summer, 1976), pp. 187-205.
8. "Paradigm Dramas" in American Studies: A Cultural and Institutional History of the Movement (in Special Section: The American Studies Movement: A Thirty-Year Retrospective)
Gene Wise
American Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 3. (1979), pp. 293-337.
9. Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude Women Authors
Nina Baym
American Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 2. (Summer, 1981), pp. 123-139.
10. The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest
Janice Radway
American Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 2. (Summer, 1981), pp. 140-162.
11. Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
Houston A. Baker, Jr.
American Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 1, Special Issue: Modernist Culture in America. (Spring, 1987), pp. 84-97.
12. A New Context for a New American Studies?
Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr.
American Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 4. (Dec., 1989), pp. 588-613.
13. Listening to Learn and Learning to Listen: Popular Culture, Cultural Theory, and American Studies
George Lipsitz
American Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 4. (Dec., 1990), pp. 615-636.
14. Cultural Locations: Positioning American Studies in the Great Debate
Alice Kessler-Harris
American Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 3. (Sep., 1992), pp. 299-312.
15. Community, Patriarchy and Individualism: The Politics of Chicano History and the Dream of Equality
Ramón A. Gutiérrez
American Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 1. (Mar., 1993), pp. 44-72.
16. Homosex Changes: Race, Cultural Geography, and the Emergence of the Gay
Kevin J. Mumford
American Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 3. (Sep., 1996), pp. 395-414.
17. The Transformation of Culture: Three Chinese Views of America
Kevin Scott Wong
American Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 2. (Jun., 1996), pp. 201-232.
Related Articles
- American Studies: A Not So Unscientific Method
Brian Attebery
American Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Jun., 1996), pp. 316-43.
- "Being Interdisciplinary Is So Very Hard to Do"
Stanley Fish
Profession 1989, pp. 15-22. [Not at UMass. Order through Interlibrary Loan. Note ISSN is 0740-6959]
- "Boundary as Center: Inventing an American Studies Culture"
Michael Cowan
Prospects 12 (1987), pp. 1-20. [Library has in print only, not online. Call# E169.1.P9]
- Class, Multiculturalism and the American Quarterly
Larry J. Griffin and Maria Tempenis
American Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 1 (March 2002), pp. 67-99.
- Dangerous Liaisons: Politics and Epistemology in Post-Cold War American Studies
Enikö Bollobás
American Quarterly, Vol. 54, No.4 (December, 2002), pp. 563-579.
- Dialogue: Gender, Race, and Rights: Listening to Critical Race Theory
Eileen Boris & Melinda Chateauvert
Journal of Women's History, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Summer 1994), pp. 111-134.
- How Wide the Circle of the 'We': American Intellectuals and the Problem of the Ethos Since World War II (from Academic Search Premier. Also available in JSTOR)
David A. Hollinger
American Historical Review, Vol. 98, No. 2 (April 1993), pp. 317-337.
- Making America Home: Racial Masquerade and Ethnic Assimilation in the Transition to Talking Pictures
Michael Rogin
Journal of American History Vol. 79, No. 3 (December 1992), pp. 1050-1077.
- "Making History: Marxism, Queer Theory, and Contradiction in the Future of American Studies"
Kevin Floyd
Cultural Critique Vol. 40 (Fall 1998), pp. 167-201. [Library has in print only for this year. Call # CB3 C84 . This issue not online.]
- One Year After the Sit-In: Asian American Students' Identities and Their Support for Asian American Studies
Okiyoshi Takeda
Journal of Asian American Studies Vol. 4, No. 2 (Jun, 2001), pp. 147-164.
- The Radical Roots of American Studies: Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, November 9, 1995
Elaine Tyler May
American Quarterly Vol. 48, No. 2 (June 1996), pp. 179-200.
- Resituating American Studies in a Critical Internationalism
Jane C. Desmond and Virginia R. Dominguez
American Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 3 (September 1996), pp. 475-490.
- Theorizing Cultural Difference: A Critique of the Ethnicity School
Alan Wald
MELUS Vol. 14, No. 2 (Summer 1987), pp. 21-33.
- Walter Benn Michaels and the New Historicism: Where's the Difference?
Brook Thomas
Boundary 2, Vol. 18, No. 1. (Spring, 1991), pp. 18-59.
Sample Review Essays
- Can This Nation Be Saved?
Melani McAlister
American Literary History, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer 2003), pp. 422-440.
- Language Nation
Gavin Jones
American Literary History, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Winter 2001), pp. 776-788.
- Looking for the Human in the Humanities
David Bleich
American Literary History, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Summer 2002), pp. 328-347.
- Native Americans and American Identities in the Early Republic
Timothy Sweet
American Literary History, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Fall 2001), pp. 592-602.
- Perpetual Emotion Machine
Michelle Burnham
American Literary History, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Summer 2002), pp. 328-347.
- Reading the Re-Revival: Competing Approaches in US Ethnic Studies
Bluford Adams
American Literary History, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer 2003), pp. 395-408.
- Two Turntables and a Social Movement: Writing Hip-Hop at Century's End
Josh Kun
American Literary History, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Fall 2002) 580-592.
Journals with Review Essays and Other Related Journals - Some of these are online!
Locating Other Journals
To find a specific journal, conduct a Journal Title search in the Library Catalog. Note call number and location. This may pull up the online version, but not always.
To locate online journals not in the Library Catalog, search by journal title in the Electronic Journal Locator.
To find journal articles on a topic, use the databases listed below.
Books About American Studies
To find books about American Studies as an academic pursuit, use the subject heading United States -- Study and Teaching in the Library Catalog.
See also Latin America -- Study and Teaching and Canada -- Study and Teaching.
Book Reviews
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index in ISI Web of Science A database that allows for online searching of scholarly book reviews. Go to "Full Search", then "General Search", then "Set Search Limits" to "Book Reviews" (1984-present). Type the title of the book in "Topic" box.
- Book Review Digest (1906-present) REF Z1219.B72 Also available online (1983-present).
- Book Review Index REF Z1219.B789 (1965-1984) and REF Z1219.B79 (1985-present)
- Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974 REF Z6265 .C65 1982 + (10 vol.)
- Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974 REF. Z1035.A1 C64 + (15 vol.)
- Expanded Academic ASAP
Databases
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- From off-campus locations, an OIT Computer Account is required to access licensed databases.
- Use RefWorks to manage your citations, store notes on your readings, and create your bibliographies.
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Internet Links
Reserves
Click here for Reserve Books and Paper Copies of Articles and eReserve articles for English 791D (when available).
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Prepared for English 791D: Major Texts for the Study of American Culture, Spring 2003 & 2005, Professor Randall Knoper
Library guide by Isabel Espinal, Humanities & Anthropology Librarian |
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