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Adam Golub
Assistant Professor of American Studies

Email: agolub@fullerton.edu
Office: UH-415
Phone: (657) 278-5899

Dept. of American Studies
California State Univ., Fullerton
Fullerton, CA 92834-6868

Office Hours:
-Spring 2012: M 2:30 - 5:30 p.m.


Courses Usually Taught
  • AMST 201 - Introduction to American Studies
  • AMST 300 - Introduction to American Popular Culture
  • AMST 350 - Theories and Methods in American Studies
  • AMST 401T - Adolescent America: The Teenager in American Culture
  • AMST 420 - Childhood and Family in American Culture
  • AMST 445 - The Cold War and American Culture
  • AMST 448 - American Popular Culture and the World
  • AMST 502T - Theoretical Approaches to Studying Popular Culture


Research Interests and Publications

Publications

“A Transnational Tale of Teenage Terror: The Blackboard Jungle in Global Perspective,” Red Feather: An International Journal of Children’s Visual Culture 3:1 (March 2012): 1-10. http://redfeatherjournal.org/March_2012/

“Teaching American Studies as a Habit of Mind,” Encyclopedia of American Studies, Forum 3 (2012).  http://www.theasa.net/project_eas_online/page/project_eas_online_eas_EAS_Forum/

"American Adolescent: Holden Caulfield and the Culture of Not Growing Up," Forbes.com. January 30, 2010.  http://bit.ly/bCQUMo

"'They Turned a School Into a Jungle!': How The Blackboard Jungle Redefined the Education Crisis in Postwar America," Film and History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies 39:1 (Spring 2009): 21-30.

"We Are What We Teach: American Studies in the K-16 Classroom,"  American Quarterly 60:2 (June 2008): 443-454.

“Lessons From the Blackboard Jungle,” Education Week, 25:4 (21 September 2005): 39-40. 

Reprinted as “Misunderstood Youth,” Teacher Magazine 17:3 (1 November 2005): 40-42.

"Solving the Dewey Problem."  Review of Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy, and John Puckett, Dewey’s Dream: Universities and Democracies in an Age of Reform, H-Childhood, H-Net Reviews, December 2007.

"The OTHER Other Fifties."  Review of Alison J. Clarke, Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America, H-Amstdy, H-Net Reviews, January 2003.

“National Defense Education Act of 1958,” “Life Adjustment Movement,” and “Committee on Education Beyond the High School (Eisenhower).” The Greenwood Dictionary of Education.  Ed. John Collins and Nancy O'Brien.  Greenwood Press, 2003.

“James Weldon Johnson” and “X-Games.” St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture.  Ed. Tom and Sara Pendergast.  5 Vols. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 2000.

 

 

Professor Golub is a regular contributor to the American Studies blog, "...And Everyday Life." He also blogs about books and American culture at Forbes.com.

 

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