Archived News
- Michelle Brown on the work ahead of us: “Back to Academia, In Struggle”
- Three steering committee members or closely affiliated faculty—Katy Chiles, Tore Olssen, and Brandon Winfield—won competitive fellowships for 2016-2017 research at the Tennessee Humanities Institute
- Mark Hulsether presents at Fulbright conference in Hong Kong on “Imperial Benevolence: U.S. Foreign Policy in American Popular Culture Since 9/11”
- Lois Presser has published a groundbreaking collection on Narrative Criminology: Understanding Stories of Crime
- American Studies faculty, Katy Chiles and Michelle Brown, won major awards at the 2015 Chancellors Honors Banquet
- Michelle Brown wins the Theoretical Criminology Best Article Prize for her article "Visual criminology and circular studies: Counter-images in the carceral age"
- Amber Roessner interviewed former President Jimmy Carter as part of her research for her book in progress, Jimmy Who: Jimmy Carter and the Practice of Presidential Press and Promotion in the First Post-Watergate Election
- Bob Hutton wins two more awards for his book "Bloody Breathitt: Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South"
- Katy Chiles published "Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America" with Oxford University Press
- Chris Holmlund published a fourth anthology, The Ultimate Stallone Reader: Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur, in 2014 with Wallflower Press
- Patrick Grzanka published Intersectionality: A Foundations and Frontiers Reader (Westview Press), in February 2014
- Martin Griffin's book "Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy: Once Upon a Time in a Globalized World" published by Ashgate
- Julie Reed named the David J. Weber Fellow for Southwestern America at the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies
- Mary Campbell awarded an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship for the 2013-2014 year
- De Ann Pendry selected to receive the 2013 ESPIRITU LATINO AWARD
- Christine Holmlund is the lead organizer for a major international conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Bringing Enlightenment to C-SPAN and NPR!
- Gregory Button and Barbara Heath organize international symposium held at UT
- UT cultural critique on C-SPAN
- Katy Chiles won a highly competitive NEH Summer Stipend for her book "Transformable Race and the Literatures of Early America"
- Distinguished speakers on musicology and American culture
- A group of Brazilian undergraduates visited UT to study US history, politics, and culture
- Mark Hulsether wrote an article disputing misperceptions about the "Decline" of Liberal Religion for the The Oxford Handbook of Religion and News Media
- English Department sponsored a public lecture by Eric Carl Link
- Our program co-sponsored a session on “Benjamin Mays and the Legacies of Twentieth-Century African-American Religious Leadership”
- A leading environmental justice advocate spoke on “Corporate Accountability and Environmental Justice”