American Studies Program
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Welcome to the CSULB American Studies Program website! We hope that you will find most of the information about the program that you need here. If not, e-mail us and we will be happy to help.

Thanks for visiting!
Dr. Brett Mizelle, Director

Please check here for important notices:

Michael Willard "Swimming, Surfing, Performing on a Stage Built By Others: Duke Kahanamoku and the Role of Sport in the Development of International Racial Modernity" Tuesday, 10 May 2005, 2:00pm, Library Fifth Floor Gallery

Michael Willard is Assistant Professor of History at the Oklahoma State University. He is the co-editor of two important volumes of American Studies scholarship: Sports Matters: Race, Recreation and Culture (NYU, 2002) and Generations of Youth: Youth Cultures and History in Twentieth Century America (NYU, 1998). His most recent publication is "Nuestra Los Angeles," in the collection Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures (Johns Hopkins, 2005).

Christopher Looby "Seriality and Sectionalism: Periodical Fiction and National Consolidation, 1792-1885" Tuesday, April 26th, 5:00pm Library 5th Floor Gallery

Christopher Looby is a Professor of English at UCLA. Among his many published works are The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Chicago, 2000) and Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States (Chicago, 1996).

Marisela Norte "The Days of Wine and Waiters: Scenes from the Dining Room" Monday, April 25th, 2:00pm Library 5th Floor Gallery

Marisela Norte is considered one of the most important literary voices to come out of East Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Interview, Elle, Option, Venice, The Los Angeles Weekly, Buzz, The LA Opinion, Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine and the anthologies Microphone Fiends, American Quarterly: Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures, Bordered Sexualities: Bodies on the Verge of a Nation, The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place and Rolling Stone’s Women of Rock. Norte lives in East Los Angeles, is a member of PEN West, The Bus Riders Union and the Progressive Jewish Alliance as well as a long time volunteer at the East Los Angeles Women’s Center. Norte’s latest works include East L.A. Days/Fellini Nights and the upcoming Scenes From the Dining Room.