The 2018 special issue of American Quarterly, “Toward a Critically Engaged Digital Practice: American Studies and the Digital Humanities,” will explore digital humanities as a designation, as an associated constellation of technologies and practices, and as a site of convergence for...
From the cruel optimism of neoliberalism to the rise of white nationalism to the almost daily reminders of the precariousness of life—especially the lives of those who are othered through race, class and gender—contemporary events show the necessity of studying representations of violent...
Call for papers: Foodways in the South. Submission deadline: December 1, 2017. The Southern Quarterly invites submissions for a special issue on foodways in the South examining how food and drink (and the culture, literature, and practices surrounding...
Networks are the life-blood of many collaborative artistic and political movements. The aim of this special issue is to explore the confluence of American art and radicalism transnationally in the hundred-year lead up to 1968, a high-point in radical artistic and political expression. In...
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Special Issue of the AMSJ Food in U.S. Culture
Seeking papers and articles (of all lengths) for a special American Studies volume on “Food in U.S. Culture.” Why do we eat what we eat? How do we eat what we eat? How was the food produced, distributed, and prepared?...
NANO: New American Notes Online
Issue 13 Call for Papers
Due by: December 2, 2017
Special Issue: The Anthropocene
Guest Editors: Kyle Wiggins and Brandon Krieg
In the Anthropocene–our geological present defined by humans as the dominant, destructive force in the...
Following a campaign cycle marked by exclusionary rhetoric and dehumanizing politics, more than 1,000 incidents of hate have been reported since Election Day. The articulation of hate during the 2016 US presidential campaign drew upon a long history of racism, sexism, and homophobia in American...
In the opening pages of Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues (1995), Spokane Indian storyteller Thomas Builds-the-Fire comes into ownership of legendary African American bluesman Robert Johnson's guitar, a magical object that both furthers his band's musical aptitude and reopens the scars of...
We live in a world of migratory population flows, resurgent nationalisms, and state-sanctioned violence. The next issue of Rejoinder web journal will explore the theme of bodies and borders in the context of these geopolitical phenomena. We invite submissions that focus on how the...
The Editors of the Journal of Transnational American Studies are delighted to announce that the Fall 2016 issue, one of our biggest issues to date, with over 30 articles, is now ready for viewing here: http://escholarship.org/uc/...
