Re-Examining American Literature Student Symposium (REAL)

Re-Examining American Literature Student Symposium (REAL)

Description: Landmark works such as Appandurai’s The Social Life of Things (1986) suggest that there has been an increasing interest in material objects in aesthetic and literary theory: things are no longer relegated to anthropological study of material...

California as the Epicenter of Social Sciences

Description: California occupies a central position in American studies and has inspired countless papers and books from its admission to statehood up to the present. While other U.S. cities and regions have in the past attracted the attention of social scientists on...