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Teaching American Studies in Britain

Perspectives and Possibilities

Av Megan Hunt, Lydia Plath

Del i serien Critical Insights in American Studies

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Exploring the varied approaches to teaching American Studies in Britain today, the contributors in this volume examine how we can use critical pedagogies to empower our students to disrupt the status quo, challenge boundaries and see the United States—and the world—from new perspectives. Using a range of formats, including essays, case studies and dialogues, it explores what American Studies methodologies mean to both staff and students in UK higher education, and the possibilities that they offer in the classroom and beyond.
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Megan Hunt is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh, where she serves as the Director of Undergraduate Programmes in History, Classics and Archaeology. Her teaching and research mostly explore intersections between the civil rights movement, white liberalism, and Hollywood film, reflected in her book, Southern by the Grace of God: Race, Religion, and Civil Rights in Hollywood’s South (2024).  She has also written about the place and significance of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the wider African American civil rights movement in British schools, culminating in articles in the Journal of American Studies and The Conversation. Lydia Plath is Professor of US History at the University of Warwick, where she also serves as the Deputy Head of Department and Director of Teaching and Learning. Lydia served as the Chair of the British Association of American Studies (BAAS) between 2022 and 2025, and established the BAAS Teaching Network. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has a Postgraduate Award in Interdisciplinary Pedagogy. She has written widely on American Studies pedagogy as well as histories of racism and racial violence from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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The contributors’ discussions in this rich collection transcend the already-capacious disciplinary boundaries of American Studies to offer generative insights for all of us engaged in the work of teaching and learning in higher-ed environments. A fascinating and unflinching examination of what it means to deeply engage and thoughtfully teach difficult, complex and sometimes fraught topics – like race, power, gender and identity – this volume offers a great deal to teacher–scholars no matter where their disciplinary homes might be.

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