US Cultures in the Era of Globalization

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1 Intro	6 Latino Latina Intra Cultural Diversity
2 Immigration, transnationalism, globalization	7 The Americas (plural)
3 The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity	8 Asian Americans
4 Native Americans	9 Different Histories, Different Voices...
5 African American history and culture	10 Easterness

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Virtual course presented by Ioana Luca

Lecturer of American Studies and Literature at the University of Bucharest. Ph.D. in American Literature (expected 2004), University of Bucharest, with a dissertation on The Autobiography of Displacement in Contemporary American Literature. Areas of specialization include American civilization, American Studies, and Media Culture. Survey courses (undergraduate and graduate levels) held include: Early American Civilization, Introduction to American Studies, U.S. Cultures in the Era of Globalization, Media and Popular Culture. Various special courses held yearly. Publications include: translations from English (J. Hillis Miller, The Ethics of Reading; Asa Briggs, Peter Burke, A Social History of the Media, etc.); translations into English; articles published in scholarly journals (“Ihab Hassan, the Postmodern Critic, Mirrors of the Self”;  “Orientalism, an Autobiographical Mode, Edward Said”; “Nabokov and the Poetics of Memory in Speak Memory”, etc.); papers presented in international and national conferences and seminars (on such topics as exile, displaced identities, Balkanism, Easterness, Edward Said’s work, Nabokov etc.). Member in EAAS and ESSE, member in and treasurer of RAAS (Romanian Association for American Studies). Grantee, USIA Grant, Summer Institute on Contemporary Literature, University of Louisville, U.S.A., 1999; Fulbright Visiting Scholar 2000/2001 Michigan State University.

This virtual class was developed by ASLS. Project coordinator: Adrian Florea
Design, graphics & web programming: Bogdan Gavrila

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