June 15, 2001
A Star of American Studies (or Is That 'Un-American Studies'?)
Driven by politics and personal reflection, Paul Lauter led the field into multicultural terrain
"Why this thing, in this way, at this time?" wonders Paul Lauter. It is a favorite question of the former president of the American Studies Association, and he repeats it, varying the emphasis: "Why this thing, in this way, at this time?"
We are sitting in his apartment here with Te-hsing Shan, a researcher from the Institute of European and American Studies at the Academia Sinica,
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