Froula Gives Keynote Address

Dr. Anna Froula just returned from Switzerland where she presented a keynote speech entitled, “Restaging the American Frontier in the Middle East” at Writing Contemporary Wars and Contemporary Militaries: Film and Literature of Military Interventions from the Persian Gulf Wars to the Present at the University of Lausanne. The talk traces the deployment of American frontier mythology from wars of the 20th century through the “war on terror” into the attacks on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.