Founded In    1949
Published   quarterly
Language(s)   English
     

Fields of Interest

 

Interdisciplinary

     
Affiliated Organization   American Studies Association
     
Editorial Board

American Quarterly Editors

Editor: Curtis Marez, University of Southern California

Associate Editor: Avery Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara

Associate Editor: Katherine Kinney, University of California, Riverside

Associate Editor: James Kyung Jin Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara

Associate Editor: Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego

Book Review Editor: Nan Enstad, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Submission Guidelines and Editorial Policies

Authors should submit their manuscripts (preferably) via email to american.quarterly@usc.edu as attached documents in either Word or Word Perfect formats, or (alternatively) mail three copies to the editor.  Manuscripts are evaluated anonymously, so authors’ names should appear on a separate title page or in correspondence only.  Manuscripts should be in the range of 5,000 – 10,000 words, with a maximum of 10,000 words total, including footnotes, and conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition.  Please note:  we do not require that you format your essay in AQ style before it is accepted for publication, but we do require that submissions be of reasonable length.  Essay submissions over 12,000 words will be returned to authors without being read. Further submission instructions can be found by clicking the “Author Info” link on our website, www.americanquarterly.org

     

American Quarterly

Journal 1

Founded in 1949, American Quarterly is the journal of the American Studies Association. American Quarterly represents innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that engages with key issues in American studies.  The journal publishes essays that examine American societies and cultures, past and present, in global and local contexts.  This includes work that contributes to our understanding of the United States in its diversity, its relations with its hemispheric neighbors, and its impact on world politics and culture.  Through the publication of reviews of books, exhibitions, and diverse media, the journal seeks to make available the broad range of emergent approaches to American studies.

American Quarterly is published four times a year, in March, June, September, and December.  It is available online to ASA members and through Project Muse and JSTOR.

 

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June 2008, Volume 60, Number 2

Counterinsurgency and Torture


FORUM: NATIVE FEMINISMS WITHOUT APOLOGY

From White into Red: Captivity Narratives as Alchemies of Race and Citizenship


Gender, Sovereignty, Rights: Native Women’s Activism against Social Inequality and Violence in Canad


Felt Theory


Strategies of Erasure: U.S. Colonialism and Native Hawaiian Feminism


Native Hawaiian Decolonization and the Politics of Gender


Carving Navajo National Boundaries: Patriotism, Tradition, and the Diné Marriage Act of 2005


(Re)Mapping Indigenous Presence on the Land in Native Women’s Literature


Learning across Differences: Native and Ethnic Studies Feminisms


American Studies without America: Native Feminisms and the Nation-State


ESSAYS

Belly Dancing: Arab-Face, Orientalist Feminism, and U.S. Empire


Cold War Re-Visions: Representation and Resistance in the Unseen Salt of the Earth


The Clearly Obscene and the Queerly Obscene: Heteronormativity and Obscenity in Cold War Los Angeles


Charting Progress: Francis Amasa Walker’s Statistical Atlas of the United States and Narratives of W


EVENT REVIEW

Outside Art: Exhibiting Snapshot Photography


BOOK REVIEWS

We Are What We Teach: American Studies in the K-16 Classroom


Slavery, Past and Present


The State of Prison


Orientalizing American Studies


Toward a “Subjectless” Discourse: Engaging Transnationalist and Postcolonial Approaches in Asian Ame


Other Issues

December 2007, Volume 59, Number 4
Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United States, Volume 59, Number 3
Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders , Vol. 57, No. 3
Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures,
March 2006, Volume 58, Number 1