Edward Tang

Dr. Edward Tang
Associate Professor of American Studies
etang@tenhoor.as.ua.edu
(205) 348-9767

Education:
  • Vassar College (A.B.)
  • New York Univ. (M.A., Ph. D.)

Research Focus:

  • 19th Century

Specialty Fields:

  • American Intellectual & Cultural History, Asian-American Studies, African-American Studies

Selected Publications

Recent Publications
   From Internment to Containment: Cold War Imaginings of Japanese Americans in Go for Broke,: forthcoming in Columbia Journal of American Studies.

Articles
     "Rebirth of a Nation: Frederick Douglass as Postwar Founder in Life and Times," Journal of American Studies, 39 (2005): 19-39.

   "The Civil War as Revolutionary Reenactment: Walt Whitman's 'The Centenarian's Story,' " Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 21 (Winter/Spring 2004): 131-154.

  "Transpacific Worlds: Visualizing Asian America in Chan is Missing and Dim Sum," Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies, 27 (2002): 569-93.

   "Making Declarations of Her Own: Harriet Beecher Stowe as New England Historian," New England Quarterly, 71 (March, 1998): 77- 96.

   "Writing the American Revolution: War Veterans in the 19th- Century Cultural Memory," Journal of American Studies, 32 (April, 1998): 63-80.

   "Some Thoughts on Chan is Missing," in Asians in America 1995: Conference Proceedings, ed. Risa Morimoto (New York University, 1995): 22-5.