Department of American Studies

Anna Brickhouse

Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English and American Studies

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Lawrie Balfour

James Hart Professor of Politics

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Spring 2024

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Required AMST Courses

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AMST 3001 – Theories & Methods of American Studies (2 sections)

This seminar course will introduce majors to various theories and methods for the practice of American Studies. The three goals of the seminars are (1) to make students aware of their own interpretive practices; (2) to equip them with information and conceptual tools they will need for advanced work in American Studies; and (3) to provide them with comparative approaches to the study of various aspects of the United States.

Prerequisites: American Studies Major

AMST 3001-001: Theories & Methods of Amer Std

MW 03:30PM-04:45PM | CAB 027

Singerman, David

AMST 3001-002: Theories & Methods of Amer Std

TR 11:00AM-12:15PM | BRN 235

Fourth Year Seminars

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AMST 4500 - 001 - Fourth Year Seminar AMST: Race, Criminality, Abolition

AMST 4500-001: Fourth Year Seminar AMST

TR 11:00AM-12:15PM | WIL 244

Cacho, Lisa Marie

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AMST 4500 - 003 - Fourth Year Seminar AMST: Transgender Studies in America

TR 12:30PM-01:45PM | CAB 389

Rizki, Cole

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AMST 4500 - 100 - Fourth Year Seminar AMST: Reading Black College Campus

T 05:00PM-07:30PM | CAB 191

Grandison, Kenrick I

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AMST 4559 - 001 - Politics of Breath

T 03:30PM-06:00PM | CAB 207

Nguyen, Patricia

AMST Electives

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AMST 2500 - 001 - Major Works for Amer Studies: Commodify Race/Gender/Sexuality

TR 02:00PM-03:15PM | BRN 328

Coyoca, Wilfred David

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AMST 2559 - 001 - New Course: AMST: US Latinx Lit & Culture

TR 09:30AM-10:45AM | CAB 395

Acevedo-Reyes, Helmer Manuel

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AMST 2559 - 002 - New Course AMST Course: Abolition & Transform Justice

W 03:30PM-06:00PM | SHN 119

Nguyen, Patricia

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AMST 2660 - 100 - Spirituality in America

MW 01:00PM-01:50PM | WNR 209

Hedstrom, Matthew Sigurd

What does "spiritual but not religious" mean, and why has it become such a pervasive self-description in contemporary America? This interdisciplinary course surveys spirituality in America, with a particular eye for the relationship between spirituality and formal religion, on the one hand, and secular modes of understanding the self, such as psychology, on the other.

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AMST 3180 - 100 - Intro to Asian Amer Studies

MW 10:00AM-10:50AM | MON 130

Chong, Sylvia Shin Huey

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AMST 3200 - 100 - African Am Political Thought

MW 03:00PM-03:50PM | GIB 211

Balfour, Katharine L

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AMST 3500 - 100 - Topics in American Studies: Jim Crow America

TR 12:30PM-01:45PM | WNR 110

Grandison, Kenrick I & Ross, Marlon

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AMST 3559 - 001 - New Course: US Popular Music

MW 03:30PM-04:45PM | BRN 328

Miller, Karl Hagstrom

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AMST 3559 - 003 - New Course: Indigenous Tech and Climate

TR 12:30PM-01:45PM | RTN 152

Garcia, Robin Marie

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AMST 3710 - 001/5710-001 - Mapping Black Landscapes

T 03:30PM-06:00PM | BRN 328

Goff, Lisa

Distinguished Majors Course

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AMST 4999 - 001 - DMP Thesis Seminar

R 04:00PM-06:30PM | CAB 207

Coyoca, Wilfred David

This workshop is for American Studies majors who have been admitted to the DMP program. Students will discuss the progress of their own and each other's papers, with particular attention to the research and writing processes. At the instructor's discretion, students will also read key works in the field of American Studies.

Prerequisites: admission to DMP.

Graduate Seminars

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AMST 8001 - 001 - Approaches to American Studies

T 06:00PM-08:30PM | BRN 328

Ngo, Fiona

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AMST 550 - 001 - Grad Topics in AMST: Material Culture

M 03:30PM-06:00PM | KER 317

Goff, Lisa

Fall 2024

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Required AMST Courses

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AMST 2001 – Introduction to American Studies

Lecture: MW 1:00PM-1:50PM | WNR 209

Hamilton, Jack; Ngo, Fiona

Seminars: TBA

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AMST 3001 – Theories and Methods of American Studies

TR 9:30AM-10:45AM | BRN 328

Von Eschen, Penny

4000-Level Requirement

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AMST 4500 - 001 - Fourth Year Seminar AMST: The Gig Economy

AMST 4500-001: Fourth Year Seminar AMST

M 3:30PMAM-6:00PMPM | CAB 303

Hagstrom Miller, Karl

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AMST 4500 - 002 - Fourth Year Seminar AMST: Race, Space, and Culture

T 5:00PM-7:30PM | CAB 044

Grandison, Kenrick I; Ross, Marlon B

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AMST 4559 - 001 - New Course AMST: Nationalism and Activism in Sport

TR 2:00PM-3:15PM | BRN 328

Coyoca, David

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AMST 4559 - 002 - New Course AMST: Performing Archives, Memory, and Materiality

W 3:30PM-6:00PM | CAB 383

Nguyen, Patricia

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AMST 4559 - 003- New Course AMST: Southern Appalachia in the 1970's

W 4:30PM-7:00PM | FHL 215

Hale, Grace

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AMST 4559 - 004- New Course AMST: Afro-Caribbean Latinx History

TR 9:30AM-10:45AM | FHL 206

Proenza-Coles, Christina

AMST Electives

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AMST 2130 - 001 -Narratives of Girlhood

TR 12:30PM-1:45PM | GIL 245

Tapia, Ruby

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AMST 2422- 001 - Point of View Journalism

TR 12:30PM-1:45PM | CAB 132

Goff, Lisa

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AMST 2559 - 001 - New Course: AMST: Narratives of Displacement and Migration

TR 5:00PM-6:15PM | CAB 107

Coyoca, David

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AMST 3250 - 001 - Black Protest Narrative

TR 11:00AM-12:15PM | BRN 235

Ross, Marlon B

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AMST 3300 - 001 - Introduction to Latinx Studies

TR 2:00PM-3:15PM | WIL 214

Cacho, Lisa M

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AMST 3323 - 001- Hemispheric Latinx Literature and Culture

MW 2:00PM-3:15 PM | BRN 235

Lamas, Carmen E

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AMST 3559 - 001- New Course AMST: Hollywood Exile: German Filmmakers Flee Fascism

MW 3:30PM-4:45PM | CAB 332

Dobryden, Paul A

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AMST 3610- 001 - Asian Americans & Pop Culture

T 3:30PM-6:00PM | CAB 111

Nguyen, Patricia

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AMST 3630 - 001 - Vietnam War Lit & Film

TR 9:30AM-10:45AM | SHN 107

Chong, Sylvia Shin Huey

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AMST 3790 - 001-Moving On; Migration in/to US

TR 3:30PM-4:45PM | CAB 323

Goff, Lisa

Graduate Seminars

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AMST 5000 - 002 - New Course AMST: Theories and Methods of Latinx Studies

M 11:00AM-12:15PM | WIL 214

Cacho, Lisa M

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AMST 5000 - 002 - New Course AMST: Queer Time and Space

MW 3:30PM-4:45PM | FHL 208

Ngo, Fiona

What We Do

We practice American Studies at UVA as a definitively interdisciplinary pursuit, producing scholarship that is markedly self-reflexive, and producing scholars who are unusually aware of their own positions and assumptions

Why We Do It

Our vision for the future is an embrace of the productive tensions of the differing traditions of American Studies with a collective commitment to continuing awareness of both intersectionality and institutional history

How we do it

We contribute to the mission of the University of Virginia by equipping students to be engaged citizens, and by generating new knowledge and understanding of the nation and world that they inherit

Who We Are

Representing an interdisciplinary and capacious field of study, the Department of American Studies is a foundational pillar, key to the University's goals of recruiting and retaining a talented and diverse faculty of rising leaders in their field who are committed to outstanding research and teaching

What we are

American Studies at University of Virginia is the center of comparative indigeneity, ethnic, and race studies vital for UVA’s commitment to Race, Justice, and Equality