Peter Filene
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Professor Emeritus M.A. Harvard University, 1961 |
Research Interests
He taught and wrote primarily on 20th-century American history, with particular interest in gender, popular culture, and pedagogy. His most recent publication is The Joy of Teaching: A Practical Guidebook for New College Instructors (UNC, 2005). Two previous books are: Him/Her/Self: Gender Identities in Modern America, third edition, (Johns Hopkins, 1998); and In the Arms of Others: A Cultural History of the Right-to-Die in America (Ivan Dee, 1998), which combines medical, legal, bioethical, political and cultural perspectives on death and dying in 20th-century America.
Each year he taught an undergraduate course on "The United States since 1945," in which he makes extensive use of visual "texts" (photographs, paintings, television). He also taught a graduate seminar, "Introduction to Historical Education," in which students
produced a syllabus for an undergraduate course as well as several lectures and discussions.
He retired in May 2007.
Click here to view a web version of Prof. Filene's curriculum vitae (in PDF).
Graduate Students Advised by Peter Filene
Contact
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of History
CB #3195, Hamilton Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195