American Studies at UIowa

We've made it, #Hawkeyes ! Thank you for a great semester, and hope you have an amazing summer. Congratulations to all our awesome #graduates - we're so proud of what you've accomplished, and we know you'll go far! 💛👩‍🎓👨‍🎓🖤

To the Class of 2022:

My dear Mr. Hughes: I am the author of a three act dramatic play on Negro family life. I have tentatively chosen as a title for this work a line from one of your poems. The line is: 'a raisin in the sun.' Lorraine Hansberry/Langston Hughes (Hughes papers bit.ly/3ya5pJ1)

It's finals week, #Hawkeyes ! Whether you're currently cramming for exams, hitting the books, or trudging through term paper after term paper, make sure you're taking care of yourselves along the way. We're almost there! 😺🎓📚

EXCLUSIVE: HBO is developing ‘Sula,’ a limited series based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison’s novel. The project comes from writer Shannon M. Houston and Stephanie Allain’s Homegrown Pictures deadline.com/2022/05/sula-l…

Hitting the books at the IMU before finals week: A Hawkeye tradition since 1847.

Better late than never. 🌞🌞🌞

"Where are all the Girls and #IndigenousPeople at IGSA@ND?" by The Young Indigenous Women's Utopia Group, Cindy Moccasin, Jessica McNab, @catherinevanner, Sarah Flicker, Jennifer Altenberg, and Kari-Dawn Wuttunee. Read here: bit.ly/3xfyp1k @IGSAonline #Girlfesto

Starting now!

The Iowa Colloquium on Sport and Culture, featuring Dr. David L. Andrews, is happening TODAY at 4pm! Dr. Andrews will be giving the talk "Conjunction-Articulation-Assemblage: Theorizing Trump’s Sporting America." Don't miss out!

Today is National Day of Awareness. No more missing relatives. #UCLA #UCLAAISC #MMIW #MMIR

When the semester is almost over and you start to feel homesick before you've even left.

Dr. Heather Steffen is speaking now on "Professionalism and Its Limits" for the American Studies department's final #FloatingFriday talk! Don't hesitate to tune in! 😀

This came today. Looking forward to reading it. Thanks so much, for writing it, Allan!

President Biden has declared May 5, 2022 as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day.

Abortion was first criminalized in the U.S. in the mid-19th century. A key argument was that too many white women were ending their pregnancies. bit.ly/3ONJMYm

The Iowa Colloquium on Sport and Culture features Dr. David L. Andrews of @UofMaryland who will be giving his lecture "Conjunction-Articulation-Assemblage: Theorizing Trump’s Sporting America" tomorrow at 4pm CT. Register: shorturl.at/dlorB

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May the 4th be with you, Hawkeyes.

All dressed up.