Dr. Heinz Ickstadt This is Me

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1. 1. New Page 1

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   Published on: 4/27/2006   Last Visited: 11/18/2007

   The historical evolution of this pedagogical paradigm is described in the Autumn 2000 issue of the European English Messenger by Heinz Ickstadt, Professor of American Studies at the Kennedy Institute in Berlin and a former President of the European Association for American Studies.Ickstadt's article is subtitled "Can English (and American) Studies be Globalized?," and his theme is the impact of globalization upon traditional ways of organizing academic material in national terms.He traces the institutional situation of American Literature from the 1950s and early 1960s, when it generally held a minor status within English departments, through to the late 1960s and 1970s, when American Studies often succeeded in breaking away and establishing itself as an interdisciplinary unit or autonomous department committed to the academic study of American national culture as a synchronic whole."Without undue exaggeration," writes Ickstadt, "one can say that during the seventies in places like West Berlin, ‘conservative' English departments and ‘progressive' American Studies departments held each other mutually in contempt" (19).But contempt is, of course, a great energizer, and also a way of defining oneself as well as one's enemy.As Ickstadt goes on to observe, many American Studies programmes today are uncomfortable with the impact of globalization and the so-called "transnational turn" precisely because such developments would seem to undermine what he calls "the homogeneity of the field, the solidity and coherence of knowledge and competences transmitted" (21).
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   If a self-regarding contempt for the supposed anachronisms of English as a subject provided the initial impetus for American Studies programmes in the 1970s, as Ickstadt suggested, what greased their wheels in the 1990s was, above all, money.

2. 2. www.mobileacademy-berlin.com

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   Published on: 5/23/2008   Last Visited: 8/19/2008

   Dr. Heinz Ickstadt, Professor (em.) and Former Director of the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North-American Studies, FU Berlin, Pynchon-Specialist [Berlin]
   
   Living Through the Lexicon: Discontent?Even with Culture?Try a Quasi-Clinical Consultation, Using American Know-How and German Know-Why (BM6)

3. 3. Fall '98 Newsletter

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   Published on: 10/1/1998   Last Visited: 3/16/2008

   Proposals for parallel/dialogue lectures should be submitted to the EAAS delegate of your national/regional American Studies Association, with copies to the EAAS President, Heinz Ickstadt, by January 31, 1999.