Humanities, Culture, and Interdisciplinarity: The Changing American Academy

Index

index African-American; and American studies, 159, 175,76; arts, 111, 188; and cultural studies approach in literature, 171–72; increased attention to race in mainstream post1970s , 183; and music, 113, 132, 140, 148; precursors of scholarship and teaching, 177–78; and psychology , 178; subfield of history, 160 African American studies: assessments of field, 185, 201; borrowing in, 6; centers, 75; community activism in, 6, 54, 178; and cultural studies, 51; emergence of black women’s studies , 184; expansion of, 183–85; global and transdisciplinary interests in, 196; holism in, 187–88; and literary studies, 92–93, 172; marginalization of women of color in, 184; National Council for Black Studies, 178–180, 183, 184, 191; and New Interdisciplinarity, 41; paradigm of Afrocentricity, 190; pedagogies, 6, 178; as postdisciplinarity, 127; preview of, 6; rise of, 177–180; and Stony Brook humanities center, 76; and Theory, 43; and women’s studies , 186, 192, 196. See also African American; identity fields America, concept of: in American studies, 3, 154, 174, 201; in debates on curriculum, 205; in Indian American studies, 198; in women’s studies, 201 American studies: American Studies Association, 72, 153, 155, 168, 172–76, 197–99; appraisals of early history, 156–59; and art history, 112; assessments of, 171–75; call for critical interdisciplinarity in, 57– 58; case study of field, 153–76; and community, 174; concept of American cultural studies, 3, 6, 50–53, 160–68; 196; concept of place, 164– 68; counterpressure of identity fields, 175–77; critical and cultural turns, 154, 159–68, 161; and ethnic studies, 174; as exemplar of interdisciplinary studies, 77; future of, 174; global and transnational interests , 167–68, 174; and history, 154, 159; holism, 154–56, 159, 174; as home for study of American and popular music, 139, 141; Indian American studies, 197–99; journal American Quarterly, 74, 156–57; and mestiza consciousness, 166; and multiculturalism, 197; multidisciplinary nature of, 169, 171, 194; new anthropological and historical approaches in, 6, 177; new historicism in, 171; origin and early history of field, 2, 154–56; popular and nonWestern culture in, 163–64, 174; preview, 6; and psychology, 159; scholarship on regionalism, 165; social scientific understandings of American life, 159; talk of interdisciplinarity , 61; types of scholars today, 172–73; at Yale Humanities Center, 76; and women’s studies, 186. See also America anthropology and ethnography: American Anthropological Association as home for Indian American scholars , 198; and art history, 111–12; and cultural studies, 49–51; and ethnomusicology, 138–39; and feminist criticism and women’s studies, 186, 196; and history, 63; in journal Raritan, 74; and literary studies, 73, 93–94, 99; and music, 133–34; new definition of culture in humanities, 5; and new historicism , 92; and performance, 74; and postmodernism, 38; and reader response criticism, 94; Rice Circle, 73; and structuralism and semiotics, 73 Aristotle, 1, 15, 85, 217 Arnold, Matthew, 13, 28–29, 48, 84 art history: and African-American studies, 188; and American studies, 154, 163, 174–75, 188; and anthropology, 111–12, 115; art in humanities curriculum, 204; case study of the discipline, 107–27; of, 28; early history of, 107–9; interart comparison versus word-image studies, 115–19, 138, 142; interart relations and their limits, 117–19; and music, 107, 111, 138, 142; crisis 128, 135; new approaches in, 107, 110–13; and journal Critical Inquiry, 74; links with other disciplines in individual practices, 63, 72; and literary studies, 92, 99, 121; and Marxist economics, 72; the New Art History, 119–13; new developments in, 63; and new historicism , 91; new holism of culture, 204; new texts and topics in, 212; and New West historiography, 165; and Panofsky, 109–10, 114; parallel to jazz studies and interart relations, 146–47; and philosophy, 110; pictoral turn in and field of visual culture, 123–27; and politics , 126; and postmodernism, 38; and psychology, 111–12, 127; race and ethnicity in visual culture, 126; and reader response criticism, 94; crisis and rethinking of discipline, 113–15; disciplining shift to history based studies, 92; and social sciences , 111–13; and Stony Brook humanities center, 76; and Theory, 43; visuality in humanities education , 216; viewer responses to works, 220; visual aspects of humanities , 5; and visual culture, 6, 66, 112, 121–27; warrants for interdisciplinarity in, 109–10; wordimage studies and “visual poetics,” 120–21 artes liberals, 4, 16 Arthurs, Alberta: new typology for humanities, 40–41 Association for Integrative Studies: discussion of ideology on listserv, 62; “Guide...