Seminar:
American Indians: An Introduction
Potsdam University, American Studies

The seminar provides an introduction to American Indian topics. This includes historical background in the light of post-colonial theory and recent developments in anthropology and cultural studies, issues of reservation life, and recent Native American literature.

Seminar Information:

• Syllabus and Bibliography (PDF)
• Seminar Information Package (PDF)
• Conference
  "The Cosmopolitan Subaltern"

Teaching Materials:

• Lecture 1:
  "...Where My Dead Lie Buried." Indian Reservations Between Tradition & Modernity (59 MB, PDF)
• Lecture 2:
  A Very, Very Concise History of America (11 MB, PDF)
• Lecture 3:
  Literary Theory: An Introduction of Critical Concepts and Schools (605 KB, PDF)
• Lecture 4:
  Subaltern Studies: An Introduction (153 KB, PDF)
• Online Text:
  Roland Barthes: "The Death of the Author"

Seminar Teaching History:

• Potsdam University, Summer Semester 2008