To all who enter:
Greetings and Salutations!
You've reached MARY CORBIN SIES'S Home Page. Actually,
it's more WORK than HOME, but you're welcome anyway.
As an American Studies scholar, I wear many hats. Here are some of them:
Professional Positions, present and former:
- At the University of Maryland,
College Park, I am
- Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of American
Studies
- Affiliate Faculty Member, Women's Studies
Department
- Faculty Member, Graduate Program in
Historic
Preservation
- Member, Internal Advisory Board, Maryland Institute for Technology in the
Humanities or MITH
- Member, Diasporic Arts and Social Life Group,
David C. Driskell Center for Study of the African Diapora,
- Co-Coordinator, Material Culture/Visual Culture Working Group,
Department of American Studies
- In other professional realms, I am
Teaching Responsibilities
One of my favorite identities is Teacher. I teach the following
- Graduate level courses:
- AMST
628Q, Material Culture Studies Theory
- AMST 629Q, Material Culture Studies Research Seminar
- AMST 629L, Interpretation of Cultural Landscapes of North
America
- AMST 602, Interdisciplinary Research Methods and Bibliographic
Instruction
- AMST 603,
Current Approaches to American Studies
-
Undergraduate level courses:
- AMST
205, Material Aspects of American Life
- AMST 211, Technology and American Values
- AMST 330, Critics of American Culture
- AMST 450, the Senior Seminar, American Suburbia
- HONR
259J, American Suburbia
-
Fall 2004 Course:
- AMST 602, Interdisciplinary Research Strategies
and Bibliographic Instruction
-
Spring 2004 Course:
- AMST 603,
Current Approaches to American Studies
American Studies Online Resources. Check out these scholarly
resources
created by
and for my past undergraduate and graduate courses and students:
- Virtual
Greenbelt, a virtual museum and pedagogical platform for teaching
and research
- African American
Material, Visual, and Textual Culture on the World Wide Web
-
Bibliography of Web Metasites for American Studies, an
annotated
bibliography compiled by students in AMST 602, Interdisciplinary
Research Methods and Bibliographic Instruction, Spring 1998
- Cultural Landscapes
Bibliography, an annotated bibliography compiled by three
generations of students in AMST 629L, Interpretation of Cultural
Landscapes of North America, Spring 1995, Fall 1997, and Fall 2003
Academic Job Resources. Having applied for about 220 academic jobs
during
the late 1980s (perhaps a third of which never bothered to respond to my
letter of application at all, either to acknowledge that they received it
or to turn me down), I am committed to trying to equip graduate students
and newly-minted Ph.D.s with advice for negotiating the academic job
market. Please visit the following sites (and feel free to provide
feedback on them and ideas for further resources. What else do you
need?):
- For a checklist of the steps involved in applying for academic jobs
and a
little advice about what to include in C.V.s and cover letters, see
Academic Job Application Checklist.
- For some advice on academic job interviews, see Academic Job Interview Advice. This is the text
of the talk that I gave at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting
workshop on Job Interviews, sponsored by the ASA Students' Committee, Nov.
3, 1996.
- For a list of generic questions that candidates
for academic jobs might expect to be asked during interviews, see Academic Job Interview
Questions.
In my best life, I am the partner of
Chris Stark, Program Director, Division of Mathematical Sciences, National
Science Foundation (Yes, after 12 years in a commuting marriage we have
finally gotten jobs in the
same metropolis!)
Send me mail:
This page last updated 13 May 2004.