| Table of Contents | 6 |
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| Acknowledgments | 10 |
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| Introduction | 13 |
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| Histories of Curricular Innovation | 34 |
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| 1. American Studies as Curricular Innovation: Interventions into Narratives of Field Formation | 36 |
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| 1.1 “A Subject So Familiar and So Simple: ”American Literature and American Civilization in the College Curriculum | 39 |
| 1.2 Money, Jingoism, and Folklore? American Studies after World War II | 56 |
| 1.3 Bridging the Schisms of Culture and Method: “Peaux Rouges” and “Mandarins” in Minnesota | 76 |
| 2. Maturity and Midlife Crises: Radical Teachers, Cultural Turns | 87 |
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| 2.1 Quantitative Growth and Organizational Structures in the 1960s and 1970s | 89 |
| 2.2 Cultural Experts and Literary Amateurs in the Early 1960s | 95 |
| 2.3 Radical Teaching Contra Cultural Consensus? | 101 |
| 2.4 Collaborators, Computers, Problem-Solvers: Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Davis (Re-)Considered | 108 |
| Trajectories of Transformation | 130 |
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| 3. Multiculturalism as Radical Critique: American Studies Beyond the Nation | 132 |
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| 3.1 Social Movements, European Theory, and the Search for Resistance | 135 |
| 3.2 Contextualizing Cultural Studies: The Political Work of Cultural Critique | 141 |
| 3.3 Dialogics Beyond Borders: American Culture Studies | 147 |
| 3.4 From Coverage to Contact Zones: Curricula of Comparative U.S. Cultures | 153 |
| 4. American Studies in the Age of Digital Cultures | 166 |
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| 4.1 American Studies and New Media | 167 |
| 4.2 Culture and Database: George Allen’s Curse, Chris Crocker’s Cupcake | 172 |
| 4.3 New Media—New American Studies? | 180 |
| Expansions of the Field-Imaginary | 186 |
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| 5. American Studies and the Learning Paradigm | 188 |
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| 5.1 Understanding Student Learning | 194 |
| 5.2 Novice, Expert, and Beyond | 204 |
| 5.3 Does American Studies Have “Signature Pedagogies”? | 215 |
| 6. From Best Practices to Next Practices | 227 |
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| 6.1 Going Meta: Towards a Scholarship of Teaching in American Studies | 228 |
| 6.2 Pedagogies and Epistemologies: Notes from the Visible Knowledge Project | 235 |
| 6.3 Digital Storytelling: Adaptive, Embodied, and Socially Situated | 246 |
| Epilogue | 267 |
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| List of Tables | 274 |
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| Bibliography | 275 |
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| Index | 293 |