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 institute was started in 1995. Donald E. Pease, Professor of English at Dartmouth College, 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.
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 for 2016 are:
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern UniversitySoyica Diggs Colbert, Georgetown UniversityEric Lott, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate CenterWinfried Fluck, Freie Universitaet, BerlinColleen Boggs, Dartmouth CollegeDonatella Izzo (Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale"Along with Institute Director Donald E. Pease, the institute co-directors for 2014 are:
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern UniversitySoyica Diggs Colbert, Georgetown UniversityEric Lott, University of VirginiaWinfried Fluck, Freie Universitaet, BerlinJ. Martin Favor, Dartmouth CollegeColleen Boggs, Dartmouth CollegeAlong with Institute Director Donald E. Pease, the institute co-directors for 2012 are:
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern UniversityEric Lott, University of VirginiaWinfried Fluck, Freie Universitaet, BerlinJ. Martin Favor, Dartmouth CollegeColleen Boggs, Dartmouth CollegeHortense SpillersRita FelskiWalter Benn MichaelsLauren BerlantTim DeanHamilton Carroll, Affirmative Reaction: New Formations of White Masculinity, New Americanist Series, Duke University Press, 2011Johannes Voelz, Transcendental Resistance: The New Americanists and Emerson's Challenge, Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies, Dartmouth College Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-58465-937-2Donald E. Pease, The New American Exceptionalism, University of Minnesota Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8166-2783-7Jonathan Beecher Field, Errands into the Metropolis: New England Dissidents in Revolutionary London, Dartmouth College Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-58465-821-4Jonathan Elmer, On Lingering and Being Last: Fictions of Race and Sovereignty in the New World, Fordham University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8232-2941-3Christopher Castiglia, Interior States: Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum U.S. New Americanist Series, Duke University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8223-4267-0Hester Blum, The View from the Mast-Head: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives, University of North Carolina Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8078-3169-4Colleen Glenney Boggs, Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation 1773-1892, CRC Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-77068-2Eng-Beng Lim, Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias. New York University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-814-759400Randall Fuller, Emerson's Ghosts: Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists, Oxford University Press US, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-531392-5
