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Fri 25 Sep - Mon 28 Sep, 2009
Country/Region: Netherlands
Utrecht University Former Chair, American Studies Program, University of Amsterdam; Former President, European Association for American Studies
Most Recently Attended: (2006)
Biography:
Rob KROES is professor emeritus and former chair of the American Studies program at the University of Amsterdam and former president of the European Association of American Studies. Professor Kroes’ academic research focuses on American popular culture and how it is transmitted to, received in, and transformed in non-American contexts. He is the founding editor of two series published in Amsterdam: Amsterdam Monographs in American Studies and European Contributions to American Studies. He is the author, co-author or editor of 34 books. Among his recent publications are: Them and Us: Questions of Citizenship in a Globalizing World (2000), and Straddling Borders: The American Resonance in Transnational Identities (2004). With Robert W. Rydell he co-authored a book entitled Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanizationn of the World, 1869-1922 (2005). A recent book is Photographic Memories: Private Pictures, Public Images and American History (2006). He was a faculty presenter at SSASAA 02 American Culture in the U.S. and Abroad in 2005 and at SSASAA 05 Transnationalism and Immigration Shock in American Society and Literature and has participated in many Salzburg Seminar sessions, alumni events, and International Study Program sessions. He is a member of the SSASAA Advisory Board and serves as the SSASAA Country Representative in the Netherlands.
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