Register
Register here for the annual meeting and to begin or renew an ASA membership
Register here to submit a proposal through the ASA's 2012 submission site.
Register here for JHU Press and ASA membership services, including online access to American Quarterly and the Encyclopedia of American Studies Online.Register here to join an ASA community. Only current ASA members may contribute to the community blogs. Registration is not required to submit display or text ads or news and events or to view many pages. We will refuse posts that are not of professional interest to ASA members.
Click here for membership FAQ's
Events
Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
Jun. 30 | 2012 Mary C. Turpie Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Mary C. Turpie Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies Teaching, Advising, and Program Development due
Oct. 1 | Travel Grants for Graduate Students
For submission guidelines, click here
Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
By University | By Year
Polchin, James R. "Why Do They Strike Us?: Representing Violence and Sexuality, 1930-1950," New York University, May 2002.
This dissertation examines narratives of violence against homosexual men in literature and newspapers from the Depression to the beginning of the Cold War. A work of literary-historical analysis, it draws upon scholarship on violence and twentieth-century U.S. literature, as well as histories of sexuality and race, to illuminate the complex ways representations of violence construct the boundaries of normative and non-normative sexualities. In approaching narratives of violence as important social discourses that construct a consciousness about actual violence, this study examines how writers and journalists represented real and imagined acts of violence against homosexuals. In exploring these representations, I pursue three questions: How do these representations of violence construct and understanding of male homosexuality as a social subject? How do narratives of violence concentrate larger cultural anxieties about class and racial conflicts, and shifts in the definitions of masculinity? And, in constructing an understanding of violence within the period, how do these representations participate in delineating a new political consciousness of homosexuality as a minority category of citizenship?
Quick Links
American Quarterly [official journal site]
American Quarterly [editorial site]
Encyclopedia of American Studies
Encyclopedia of American Studies [editorial site]