Faculty

Julia Mickenberg
Associate Professor

Julia Mickenberg

Courses Taught Introduction to American Studies; Main Currents in American Culture 1865- present; The Cold War and American Childhood; Society, Culture, and Politics in the 1960s; Women Radicals and Reformers; The Popular Front (graduate); Cultures of American Radicalism (graduate); Approaches to the Study of Childhood and Youth (graduate); Cold War Culture (graduate); Children's Literature and American Culture" (undergraduate); Teaching in American Studies (graduate), and American Cultural History 1865-present (graduate). General teaching interests include the history of childhood and education, radicalism in the United States, cold war culture, women's studies, theory and method of American Studies, and interdisciplinary approaches to culture, politics and society in decades of the twentieth century (1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s).

Area Interests History of the Left, history of childhood and education, women's history, nationalism, children's literature, and mid-twentieth century cultural politics.

Research Interests Ongoing research interests include mid- twentieth century cultural politics, history of the Left, the history of childhood and education, women's history, nationalism, public memory, and folklore.

Selected Publications Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States (Oxford U.P., 2006). (Winner of the Grace Abbott Book Prize from the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth; a Hamilton Book Award from the University of Texas Cooperative Society, and the Pacific Coast Branch Award from the American HIstorical Association's Pacific Coast Branch). Tales for Little Rebels: A Radical Children's Literature Anthology, co-edited with Philip Nel. (forthcoming from NYU Press) "Children's Literature." Cambridge History of the American Novel, forthcoming. "Nursing Radicalism: Lessons from a Postwar Girls' Series" American Literary History (summer 2007) "The Pedagogy of the Popular Front: Progressive Parenting for a New Generation." The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader, 2003.