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Futures of American Studies


The Futures of American Studies is a weeklong academic summer institute on the field of American Studies held at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The first Futures of American Studies Institute was held in the summer of 1997.Donald E. Pease, Professor of English at Dartmouth College, founded, organizes, and directs the annual Institute.

After the School of Criticism and Theory left Dartmouth for Cornell University in 1995, Dartmouth faculty member Donald E. Pease started the Futures Institute as an alternative summer program for faculty and graduate students. In 2017 the Futures Institute will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of its founding.

The Institute is divided into two-daily plenary sessions, which feature current work from institute faculty, and a three-hour research seminars in which all participants present and discuss their own work-in-progress. Speakers in the plenary sessions typically examine the relation between emergent and residual practices in the field of American Studies from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Participants come from a variety of programs and schools and represent fields as diverse as American history, social geography, American literature, gender studies, and the digital humanities. The Institute welcomes participants who are involved in a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields and who are interested in current critical debates in American Studies.

Along with Institute Director Donald E. Pease, the institute co-directors were 2016 are:

Along with Institute Director Donald E. Pease, the institute co-directors were 2014 are:

Along with Institute Director Donald E. Pease, the institute co-directors were 2012 are:

Each year the Futures Institute brings practicing Americanists and well-known critics and theorists working outside American studies. Notable plenary speakers include:


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