American Studies Program Queens College - CUNY Klapper Hall Room 345 / Telephone 718-997-4633 Faculty

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Frederick Buell
Ph.D., Cornell University

• globalization and culture
• immigrant literature
• environmental literature

David Kazanjian
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

• cultural studies
• postcolonial studies
• Armenian diaspora

Charles Molesworth
Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo

• modern and contemporary American literature and biography

Jon Peterson
Ph.D., Harvard

• immigrant history
• urban history

Harold Schechter
Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo

• popular culture
• fiction writing

Amy Tucker
Ph.D., New York University

• American literature and art
• translation studies

Frank Warren
Ph.D., Brown University

• 20th-century American history

Bette Weidman
Ph.D., Columbia University

• Native American studies
• oral history
• regional studies

Rich curricular offerings are provided by additional full-time and adjunct faculty in twenty cross-listed departmental courses and by four American Studies program adjuncts.