American Cultures Colloquium
The American Cultures Colloquium at Northwestern University brings Americanists from different academic specialties and institutions into dialogue with the Northwestern community. Operating on the principle that the study of American cultural history is necessarily interdisciplinary, the Colloquium allows scholars using multiple intellectual approaches to participate in conversations about a shared set of cultural artifacts and contexts.
The Colloquium is administered by advanced graduate students and funded by the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, The Graduate School, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, and various Northwestern departments and programs. All ACC events are designed to appeal to broad audiences and are open to the public.
2023-24 Schedule
TBA
Past Participants
Past Colloquium participants have included:
- Monique Allewaert, University of Wisconsin
- Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago
- Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern University
- Phillip Brian Harper, New York University
- J. Gerald Kennedy, Louisiana State University
- Houston Baker, Vanderbilt University
- Kevin Bell, SUNY Albany
- Michael Bérubé, Pennsylvania State University
- Jennifer Brody, Duke University
- Gillian Brown, University of Utah
- Hazel Carby, Yale University
- Christopher Castiglia, Pennsylvania State University
- David Chang, University of Minnesota
- Peter Coviello, Bowdoin College
- Michael Denning, Yale University
- Jim Farr, Northwestern University
- Ed Folsom, University of Iowa
- Dilip Gaonkar, Northwestern University
- Marjorie Garber, Harvard University
- Mark Goble, University of California at Berkeley
- Teresa Goddu, Vanderbilt University
- Robert Gooding-Williams, University of Chicago
- Ramón A. Guttiérez, University of Chicago
- Glenn Hendler, Fordham University
- Sharon Holland, Duke University
- E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University
- Helen Jun, University of Illinois-Chicago
- Amy Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania
- Jonathan David Katz, Yale University
- Robert Levine, University of Maryland
- Meredith McGill, Rutgers University
- Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky
- Mae Ngai, Columbia University
- Samuel Otter, University of California at Berkeley
- Donald Pease, Dartmouth College
- Janice Radway, Northwestern University
- Benjamin Reiss, Emory University
- Sarah Robertson, University of the West of England
- Rick Rodriguez, Loyola University-Chicago
- James Sidbury, University of Texas-Austin
- Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania
- Julia Stern, Northwestern University
- Simon Strikeback, local filmmaker/activist
- Michael Warner, Yale University
- Bryan Wolf, Stanford University
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Co-Sponsors
Various ACC@NU events are co-sponsored by:
- The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
- Asian American Studies Program
- The Buffett Institute for Global Studies
- The Chabraja Center for Historical Studies
- Comparative Modernisms Workshop
- Department of African American Studies
- Department of Communication Studies
- Department of English
- Department of History
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- The Graduate School
- Latina and Latino Studies Program
- The Poetry and Poetics Colloquium
- Program in American Studies
- Program in Science in Human Culture
- Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences