aspeers: emerging voices in american studies

16/07/2023

aspeers just published its new Calls for Papers for the next issue. The 17 (2024) issue will feature a general section as well as a topical one for academic contributions on the theme of "American Conspiracies." The submission deadline for both sections is October 15, 2023.
Please help us spread the word on our new Calls for Papers by telling your friends and fellow MA students about this opportunity to get published. Thank you!

aspeers is the first and currently only peer-reviewed print journal for MA-level American studies scholars in Europe. It is a platform for the best work done by American studies graduate students below the PhD level. It aims to foster academic exchange among young Americanists across Europe, and to....

08/11/2022

Call for Art Contributions
We welcome submissions of creative work examining the manifold constructions and representations of “American Apocalypses.” This topic lends itself particularly well to creative exploration and artistic expression, unearthing and communicating meanings to which academic writing does not have access.
Please consult our submission guidelines, as well as additional information at http://www.aspeers.com/2023 To be considered, contributions must be in by 15 January 2023.

17/07/2022

aspeers just published its new Calls for Papers for the next issue. The 16 (2023) issue will feature a general section as well as a topical one for academic contributions on the theme of "American Apocalypses." The submission deadline for both sections is October 16, 2022.
Please help us spread the word on our new Calls for Papers by telling your friends and fellow MA students about this opportunity to get published. Thank you!

aspeers is the first and currently only peer-reviewed print journal for MA-level American studies scholars in Europe. It is a platform for the best work done by American studies graduate students below the PhD level. It aims to foster academic exchange among young Americanists across Europe, and to....

27/06/2022

Out Now! aspeers 15 (2022) is now available online and in print.
The issue features contributions around the theme of "American Bodies": http://www.aspeers.com/2022
Graduate Contributions are by: Christoph Friedrich Nostitz: The Metalanguage of Border Crossing: The Deconstruction of Myth in Yuri Herrera’s Signs Preceding the End of the World; Carolina Faller Moura: Cooking as Mestizaje in Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s “Making Tortillas”: Reconciling Chicana Le***an Identity through the Space of the Kitchen; Solveig Kloss: “I Look Too Good Not to Be Seen”: Bodily Capital and ‘Realness’ in Pose; George Rainov: “It Was Just the Talking That Was Important”: Racial Capitalism and Black Affect in Walter Rodney’s “The Groundings with My Brothers.”. Art Contributions by: Kate Whitney.
In addition, aspeers 15 (2022) contains an interview about "Disability, Bodies, and Otherness" with the author Kenny Fries, an introduction by the graduate editors, and a brief foreword.

05/07/2021

aspeers just published its new Calls for Papers for the next issue. The 15 (2022) issue will feature a general section as well as a topical one for academic contributions on the theme of "American Bodies." The submission deadline for both sections is October 17, 2021.

Please help us spread the word on our new Calls for Papers by telling your friends and fellow MA students about this opportunity to get published. Thank you!

aspeers is the first and currently only peer-reviewed print journal for MA-level American studies scholars in Europe. It is a platform for the best work done by American studies graduate students below the PhD level. It aims to foster academic exchange among young Americanists across Europe, and to....

28/05/2021

Out Now! aspeers 14 (2021) is now available online and in print.

The issue features a number of contributions centering around the theme of "Narratives of American Colonization and Imperialism."
Graduate Contributions are by: Andrew Wildermuth: “A Thing Apart”: Sonnet Poetics and Radical Politics in Claude McKay’s Harlem Shadows; Vincent Veerbeek: To (L)Earn Their Place in Society: Student Scrip and a Capitalist Education at Sherman Institute; Emma Charlotte Weiher: “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?”: Founders Chic and Narrative Awareness in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton. Art Contribution by: Sabīne Sietiņa.
In addition, aspeers 14 (2021) contains an introduction, a message from the editors, and a brief foreword.

The fourteenth issue of aspeers is available in print and online. Browse the full text below, or buy your print copy through our online shop at stores.lulu.com/aspeers! buy aspeers online See this page for this issue's contents | the editorial team | other material related to this fourteenth issue.....

03/08/2020

aspeers just published its new Calls for Papers for the next issue. The 14 (2021) issue will feature a general section as well as a topical one for academic contributions on "Narratives of American Colonization and Imperialism." The submission deadline for both sections is October 25, 2020.

Please help us spread the word on our new Calls for Papers by telling your friends and fellow MA students about this opportunity to get published. Thank you!

aspeers is the first and currently only peer-reviewed print journal for MA-level American studies scholars in Europe. It is a platform for the best work done by American studies graduate students below the PhD level. It aims to foster academic exchange among young Americanists across Europe, and to....

17/07/2019

aspeers just published its new Calls for Papers for the next issue. The 13 (2020) issue will feature a general section as well as a topical one for academic contributions on the theme of "Pride and Shame in America." The submission deadline for both sections is October 27, 2019.

Please help us spread the word on our new Calls for Papers by telling your friends and fellow MA students about this opportunity to get published. Thank you!

aspeers is the first and currently only peer-reviewed print journal for MA-level American studies scholars in Europe. It is a platform for the best work done by American studies graduate students below the PhD level. It aims to foster academic exchange among young Americanists across Europe, and to....

03/07/2019

Out Now! aspeers 12 (2019) is now available online and in print.

The issue features a number of contributions centering around the theme of American Anger, in addition to other excellent articles highlighting the range of issues discussed in American studies on the European graduate level.

The six articles by graduate students are on "Truth-Telling and Trolls: Trolling, Political Rhetoric in the Twenty-First Century, and the Objectivity Norm" (by Hedwig Lieback), "The Paradox of Liminality: American Samoa’s Attenuated Sovereignty in the Twenty-First-Century American Empire" (by Melanie van der Elsen), "Angels and Anti-Pornography Feminists: A Comparative Analysis of Civilian Public Safety Organizations" (by Deborah Pomeranz), "Ceremony Found: Sylvia Wynter’s Hybrid Human and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony" (by Anthony James Obst), "'I’m Not a Real Person Yet': Queering Coming of Age in Frances Ha" (by Annika M. Schadewaldt), and "Of Pregnant Kings and Manly Landladies: Negotiating Intersex in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness" (by Mascha Helene Lange).

In addition, aspeers 12 (2019) contains a professorial voice by Prof. Derek R. Ford on "The Struggle of 'American Anger': In Defense of Extremism," artistic engagements with the topic of American Anger — "Silent Rage" (by Seda Erdil), "Fascist Desert Dessert," and "Jerusalem Stone Rooms" (by Emily Drew Miller) —, an introduction by the graduate editors, and a brief foreword.

The twelfth issue of aspeers is available in print and online. Browse the full text below, or buy your print copy through our online shop at stores.lulu.com/aspeers! buy aspeers online See this page for this issue's contents | the editorial team | other material related to this twelfth issue. Since....

11/08/2018

aspeers just published its new Calls for Papers for the next issue. The 12 (2019) issue will feature a general section as well as a topical one for academic contributions on the theme of "American Anger." The submission deadline for both sections is October 28, 2018.

Please help us spread the word on our new Calls for Papers by telling your friends and fellow MA students about this opportunity to get published. Thank you!

aspeers is the first and currently only peer-reviewed print journal for MA-level American studies scholars in Europe. It is a platform for the best work done by American studies graduate students below the PhD level. It aims to foster academic exchange among young Americanists across Europe, and to....

04/08/2017

aspeers just published its new Calls for Papers for the next issue. The 11 (2018) issue will feature a general section as well as a topical one for academic contributions on the topic "Alternative Americas." The submission deadline for both sections is October 15, 2017.
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aspeers is the first and currently only peer-reviewed print journal for MA-level American studies scholars in Europe. It is a platform for the best work done by American studies graduate students below the PhD level. It aims to foster academic exchange among young Americanists across Europe, and to…

27/04/2017

Out Now! aspeers 10 (2017) is available online and in print.

This anniversary issue features four graduate contributions, a professorial voice, an interview, reflections by former editors, and an academic introduction.