Register
If you haven’t already, register to start contributing news and events, and to search the Member Directory. Registration is free, but only open to current members of the American Studies Association.
Events
Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
Publications: Directory of Graduate Programs
Indiana University
Department of American Studies
Degrees Awarded: MA, PhD
Academic System: Semester
Tuition: Graduate $760 per credit hour
Deadlines: Fall semester: 1 July; Spring Semester: 1 November; Summer Session: 1 April.
Financial Aid: There are a limited number of teaching assistantships, research assistantships, fellowships, dissertation fellowships, and minority fellowships.
Affiliations and Internships: Internships with St. Louis History Museum, Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri State Archives, and other community development agencies in St. Louis.
Program Specializations: Religion, interdisciplinary culture studies, urban studies, intellectual history, and literary studies
The goal of Saint Louis University American Studies graduate program is to introduce the student to the study of American culture by presenting a systematic analysis of the patterns, structures, systems, and values of that culture from an interdisciplinary perspective. The Master’s program allows the student a non-thesis and thesis option. The non-thesis option consists of 30 hours of course work and written and oral comprehensive exams. The thesis option consists of 30 hours, of which 24 are course work and six are thesis, followed by the written and oral comprehensive exams.
The doctoral program consists of 60 hours beyond the BA and 12 hours of dissertation research. Comprehensive exams and the dissertation are required. Expertise in either a foreign language or statistical analysis must be demonstrated no later than the completion of course work. American Studies is a freestanding department with its own, mostly fulltime faulty and department-based curriculum.
Special features include access to the St. Louis Mercantile Library, which houses the Inland Waterway and Berriger Railroad collections; The Missouri Historical Society archives, which houses a large collection of manuscripts and artifacts on St. Louis local and regional history; and the internationally known Missouri Botanical Garden, which maintains a collection of American naturalists’ writing on the flora of the North American continent.
American Studies Faculty
BROWN, Candy (PhD, Harvard University, 2000) Assistant Professor; Religion, History of the Book
HEATHCOTT, Joseph (PhD, Indiana University, 2001) Assistant Professor; American urbanism; metropolitan studies and the built environment; urban theory and criticism
MANCINI, Matthew (PhD, Emory University, 1974) Department Chair and Professor; American Intellectual, South MOSKOP, Wynne (PhD, George Washington Univ., 1985) Professor; political science, political theory, women, minorities
SMITH, Jonathan (PhD, Washington University, 2001) Assistant Professor; American literature, African American expressive cultures, poetry, American religion, the African diaspora, the middle passage
SMITH, Shawn Michelle (PhD, University of California, San Diego, 1992) Associate Professor; American visual culture, photography, 19th century American literature, gender and race in American culture
Contact
Department of American Studies
3800 Lindell Blvd.
Humanities Bldg. Room 140
St. Louis, MO 63108
Phone: (314) 977-2911
Fax: (314) 977-1806
www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/amers/
Chair/Director: Dr. Matthew Mancini
Admissions
Saint Louis University
The Graduate School
3634 Lindell Blvd, Suite 117
St. Louis, MO 63108
Telephone: 314-977-2240
Fax: 314-977-3943
e-mail:
http://www.slu.edu/colleges/gr/
Quick Links
American Quarterly [official journal site]
American Quarterly [editorial site]