User:RoseGraham

Teaching - here I come!

Areas of interest and knowledge currently include:
 * General American history, more specifically:
 * 1870-1950
 * cultural history topics:
 * popular/mass culture
 * advertising/marketing
 * print culture
 * fashion
 * food
 * British history of the 19th and early 20th century:
 * London
 * poverty
 * Anglo-American relations
 * Film history:
 * American pre-codes of the 1930s
 * film noir
 * British quota quickies (1930s)
 * History of Photography
 * Research paper writing for history
 * 19th century British and late 19th century to early 20th century American literature
 * Elementary French (more advanced on a good day)
 * How to procrastinate! (I'm sure many of you out there have plenty to offer on this front too, haha.)

How They Had Fun: Culture and Context in the United States, 1900-1960

I aim to create a course that surveys pop culture either from 1900 to 1960. It'll be a fun excuse to watch movies, listen to music, and try to the view the world from a perspective different from the one we see with our 21st century eyes! Be prepared to shed those preconceptions of the past as stuffy and no fun as modern is merged with old. Silent films meet Youtube and the wild crazy jazz tunes of yesteryear meet iPod. Why should fashion designers be the only ones who resurrect the old in the context of the new? Vive vintage! Pop the cork - it's bound to be a great year.