“This America, Man”

Ben Alexander, Ph.D. (2005), teaches in the English and Film Studies Departments at Columbia University and Barnard College. Across the past several years he has helped to develop television curriculum with a focus on the 21st century television aesthetics. He has published in scholarly journals including American Archivist, English Studies Canada and the New England Quarterly. His monograph entitled, Yaddo: Shaping the American Century is in contract with Cornell University Press. He also teaches matters archives, history of books and memory studies in the Master of Management in Library and Information Science at the University of Southern California.Reto Winckler is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on the works of William Shakespeare, adaptation studies, and contemporary popular culture, particularly television series. His articles have been published in The Journal of Popular Culture, Adaptation, Shakespeare, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and elsewhere. He is the co-editor of Television Series as Literature (2021).