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HIST-LIT 90GQ: Popular Culture

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Instructor: Angela Allan
Meeting time: Wednesday, 9:45-11:45 am

Studying popular culture reveals much about the society that creates, consumes, and critiques it. How do ideas circulate in mass media? Can popular culture create social change? Who determines...

HIST-LIT 90FB: Asian America in Popular Culture

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Instructor: Karen Huang Meeting time: Wednesday, 3:00-5:00 pm The release of Crazy Rich Asians in 2018 was a significant cultural moment for Asian America: the first major Hollywood picture with a predominantly Asian American cast in over twenty years...

HIST-LIT 90HC: Music, Memory, and Identity in Latin America

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Instructor: Cristina Garcia Navas
Meeting time: Wednesday, 3:00-5:00 pm

This course explores the role music plays in the creation and transmission of memory and identity in Latin American cultures. How have musical traditions shaped the development of...

HL90CV: Contemporary American Literature and Popular Music

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Instructor: Alex W. Corey Meeting time: Wednesday, 12:00 - 2:00 This class examines the relationship between popular music, American literature, and the power structures that organize life in the United States. We will study the ways that music constructs...

Amy Weiss-Meyer

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Thesis Title: New York, New York: Writing, Saving, and Selling the City, 1967-1977

What Now: Senior Editor at The Atlantic

What Next: As long as it exists, I have no plans to leave magazine journalism!

Being able to choose research topics and craft my own...

HIST-LIT 90FZ: The South: Histories of a U.S. Region

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Instructor: Rachel Kirby
Meeting time: Monday, 12:45-2:45 pm

The South is a physical place with debated boundaries, populated by a diverse set of people who navigate and enliven the region. Simultaneously, “the South” is a layered cultural category that has...

Cold War Cultures

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Instructors: Adhy Kim and Laura Quinton Meeting time: Monday, 3:00-5:30pm Canvas Site The Cold War is often framed as a historical conflict between two geopolitical blocs: the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union. But the Cold War...

HIST-LIT 90FM: Tasting Place: Food and Culture in America

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Instructor: Rachel Kirby Meeting time: Thursday, 12:45-2:45 pm We often associate specific tastes and foods with particular places, memories, and experiences. What would it mean, then, to center taste in our study of place and culture? How can places be...

HIST-LIT 90EC: A Cultural History of the Internet

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Instructor: Briana Smith Meeting time: Thursday, 3:00 - 5:45 This course introduces students to the hippies, hobbyists, hackers, cyberspace explorers, and Second Lifers who embraced digital networks as a means to transcend geographic limitations and...