60 Seconds With Glen Whitcroft
If you could time-travel to observe one moment in the history of America, where would you go?
“I’d probably travel back to 9 April, 1939 and stand with the 75,000 people that gathered to see Marian Anderson perform a concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. It’s an often overlooked moment in civil rights history, but definitely a very significant one!”
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Who would you invite to your fantasy dinner party?
“That’s a long list but I’ll try and give the short version. Terry Pratchett, Mary Shelly and J.R.R Tolkien would make up the literary section; from politics, Hilary Clinton, Lyndon B. Johnson, Harry Barnes Jr. and Salvador Allende.”
Continue Reading60 Seconds With Alvin Smith
What profession other than academia would you like to attempt?
“Been there, done that. I was a police detective for 25 years in another life. Researching history is a lot like detective work with less danger involved… and no late nights.”
Continue Reading60 Second Roundup: BAAS Executive Advice for ECRs
Over the last few weeks we have published a series of 60 Second interviews with the BAAS Executive Committee. They gave such brilliant answers that we decided to collect their advice for ECRs in one place.
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What advice would you give to early career academics?
“Try to put family, friends, having a life, first.”
Continue Reading60 Seconds With Rachael Mclennan
What advice would you give to early career academics?
“Don’t work too hard…”
Continue Reading60 Seconds With Sylvia Ellis
The U.S. Studies Online 60 Seconds interview feature offers a short and informal introduction to a postgraduate, academic or non-academic specialist working in the American and Canadian Studies field or a related American and Canadian Studies association. Last month you spent 60 seconds with the U. S. Studies Online Editorial team. This month we have invited the Executive Committee of the British Association for American Studies, our parent organisation, to tell us a little bit more about themselves, their interests, the way they made it into academia and, crucially, their top advice for new academics. [starbox] Where are you right now? At home with my children. If you could time-travel to observe one moment in the history of America, where would you go? An uplifting moment rather than the grassy knoll! June 1967, Monterey Pop Festival. Who would you invite to your fantasy dinner party? Tricky one! Richard Burton, Keith Moon, Susan Sarandon, Ayrton Senna, […]
Continue Reading60 Seconds With Jenny Terry
What advice would you give to early career academics?
“Stamina and, when things go wrong, the ability to ‘reset’ your frame of mind will stand you in good stead in academia. Don’t be afraid to speak up and out!”
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Who would you invite to your fantasy dinner party?
“I’ve always been sceptical of the idea that people from diverse time periods would have much to discuss at fantasy dinner parties. So my guest list has an “intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century” theme: Richard Hofstadter, Hannah Arendt, Lionel Trilling, Amiri Baraka, and Susan Sontag. I wouldn’t get a word in edgeways.”
Continue Reading60 Seconds With Katie McGettigan
How did you come to your current area of research?
“… I took a class in Bibliography and Book History during my Master’s, which got me started on the materiality of books. It suddenly seemed to illogical to me that I’d spend so much time thinking about texts, and so little time thinking about books as things. I’ve made up for that since.”
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