What to do with a degree in American studies?

It's a big draw and living the American dream need not be out of reach

The Guardian

One of last native Oneida speakers dies, age 100

Lorretta Webster, one of the last people to learn Oneida as a first language, died Monday. She was 100.

Green Bay Press Gazette

LLAS Area Studies Advisory Group chair Professor Dick Ellis on BBC Radio 4 Today programme

Professor Dick Ellis, chair of the LLAS Area Studies Advisory Group and Professor of American Studies at the University of Birmingham spoke on Radio 4 this morning conerning Kerouac's On the Road. The orginal scroll will visit Birmingham later this month and Professor Ellis will be curating the exhibition.

Today programme exert on Jack Kerouac
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7760000/7760097.stm

Barber Institute for the Fine Arts

USA: Creek language in a Florida School

0844 A report from Andy Gallacher on the Native American Seminole Tribe in Florida. Andy Gallagher visits a school at which some of the teaching takes place in the Creek language.

Today programme (listen again)
Tuesday 27th May


Related links

EDUCATION-US: Seminole School Thriving In Florida
www.ipsnews.net

Seminole Tribe of Florida- official website.

Call for papers: 49th Parallel: An interdisciplinary journal of North American Studies

49th Parallel is an interdisciplinary e-journal devoted to American and Canadian studies and looks to promote innovative and challenging academic work. The journal takes its name from the 1,270 mile border separating USA and Canada, and in this sense is keen to encourage dialogues and debates which transcend the boundaries of customary theoretical approaches to the culture, history, and politics of the North American continent.
ISSN 1753-5794

49th parallel website