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WELCOME TO AMERICAN STUDIES
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Pamela Steinle
Professor of American Studies

Email: psteinle@fullerton.edu
Office: UH-418
Phone: (657) 278-3438

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

Office Hours
- Fall 2009: M 12:30-1:30pm; Tu 11:30-1:30pm; F 11:00am-12:00pm & by appointment

Courses Usually Taught

  • AMST 101 - Introduction To American Culture Studies
  • AMST 301 - The American Character
  • AMST 320 - Women in American Society
  • AMST 350 - Seminar In Theory & Method Of American Studies
  • AMST 401T - Adolescent America: A Cultural History and Contemporary Study of the Teenager in America
  • AMST 401T - War and American Culture
  • AMST 405 - Images of Crime & Violence in American Culture
  • AMST 442 - Television and American Culture
  • AMST 501 - Theories and Methods in American Studies
  • AMST 502T - Contemporary American Culture: Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Post-WW II America

Research Interests and Publications

National/International Broadcast Appearances
BBC (June 2, 2009): interviewed by Max Pearson for the BBC’s morning radio news program “The World Today” regarding enduring public and critical interest in J. D. Salinger and The Catcher in the Rye.

National Public Radio (July 18, 2001): interviewed by Juan Williams on NPR's "Talk of the Town" regarding the Catcher in the Rye censorship controversies.

Book
In Cold Fear: The Catcher in the Rye Censorship Controversies and Post-WWII American Character. 2000: Ohio State University Press. Paperback edition 2002.

Publications
Invited Editor & Area Essay: “Children's Television” (area essay introducing the genre and three program-specific essays). The Guide to United States Popular Culture. 2001: Bowling Green State University/Popular Culture Press, 160-165, 374-75, 623, 731-32.

Invited Area Essay & Book Review: “The Art of Viewing Off Center: Television and the Intellectual Enterprise.” American Quarterly (September 1998) 679-686. A review of Reviewing Reception: Television, Gender, and Postmodern Culture byLynne Joyrich (1996: Indiana University Press) and area essay on television scholarship in American Studies.

Article: "On the Construction of Cultural Knowledge: The Next Generation Asks 'Why Vietnam?'"  Vietnam Veterans Institute Journal, special issue on "Vietnam in Academe," (November 1995) 43-54.

Article: "Ideological Animations: Television Programming for (of) Children," Popular Culture Review (August 1994) 105-121.

Book Chapter: "The Fall-Out Over The Catcher in the Rye: A Contemporary American Conflict." In Beyond the Lonely Crowd: Popular Culture and Political Change in Modern America, Larry Bennett and Ronald Edsforth, Eds. 1991: S.U.N.Y. Press, 127-136.

 

 

 

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