by cristina.sanchez | Mar 4, 2024 | Academic Programs
The BA program in North American Studies is a so-called “Monobachelor” or single-subject study program, with a total of 150 credit points (LPs) in North American Studies and 30 credit points in General Professional Skills (known as ABV, or “allgemeine...
by cristina.sanchez | Mar 4, 2024 | Academic Programs
While at the BA level our program focuses on the US American Studies, our MA program offers a wider Western Hemispheric perspective and, even more crucially, a highly individualized, research-oriented curriculum allowing students to develop graduate and research...
by cristina.sanchez | Mar 4, 2024 | Publications, Recents
Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction Summary: This publication draws on three related bodies of knowledge: crime fiction criticism, masculinity studies, and the cultural analysis of food and consumption practices from a critical eating...
by cristina.sanchez | Mar 4, 2024 | Publications, Recents
Refusing to be Forgotten: Southern Conservatism and the Political Thought of M. E. Bradford Summary: Considered by many the most talented continuator of the Nashville Agrarians, Melvin E. Bradford occupies a special place in the history of modern Southern...
by cristina.sanchez | Mar 4, 2024 | Publications, Recents
House of Horrors: Familial Intimacies in Contemporary American Horror Fiction Summary: This is a study of tumultuous transformations of kinship and intimate relationships in American horror fiction over the last three decades. Twelve contemporary novels (by ten women...