BooksBooks within the American Studies community. |
Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the United States by Alexander Stoffel |
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"Through rich historical detail and theoretical sophistication, this book shows how queer struggles have engaged the question of the national and the transnational as a major site of disagreement, contestation, and emergence. Attending to the histories of gay liberation, black lesbian feminism, and HIV/AIDS activism, Stoffel argues that we cannot fully appreciate those movements without understanding their deep engagements with radical internationalism. The argument is one that should never be retired." —Roderick Ferguson, Yale University |
Book release: Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West |
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University of Texas Press has released Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West, authored by William Grady. Redrawing the Western charts a history of the Western genre in American comics from the late 1800s through the 1970s and beyond. Besides tracing the history, forms, and politics of American Western comics in and around the twentieth century, Grady offers an original reassessment of the important role of comics in the development of the Western genre, ranking them alongside popular fiction and film in the process. |
Call for PapersCall for papers from within the American Studies community. |
Call for Submissions Camino Real Issue 20 |
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The new issue of CAMINO REAL. Estudios de las Hispanidades Norteamericanas journal (Year 2025, Issue 20), edited by Ana Merino and Francisco Sáez de Adana, is seeking essays and creative writings that focus on the Universe of The Bros Hernández from all possible perspectives. |
CfP / Conference “Critical Health: Feminist Perspectives on Health and Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century United States” |
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Conference Announcement and Call for Papers: Critical Health: Feminist Perspectives on Health and Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century United States Paris, France, October 17-18, 2025 Conference Organizers: Dr. Alice de Galzain (Sorbonne Université) and Dr. habil. Johanna Pitetti-Heil (Universität zu Köln) Submission deadline: 10 February 2025 Email: criticalhealthconference@gmail.com Website: www.criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com |
CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS BIBLIOTECA BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 2024-2025 |
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The Instituto Franklin-UAH awards two grants, valued at €3,500, for the publication of works in the Colección Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, published by the Editorial Universidad de Alcalá |
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) 2025 Conference: Call for Papers *EXTENDED* |
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The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) welcomes proposals for its annual conference, co-hosted by Leeds Beckett University and the University of Leeds. |
51st Annual Conference, American Politics Group of the UK Political Studies Association: 3rd – 5th January 2025, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK |
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The American Politics Group's 2025 Annual Conference welcomes anyone with an interest in American domestic and international politics, political history, government and society. We invite proposals for conference papers on any aspect of US politics: the November elections and their consequences are likely to prove a central topic of discussion, but papers examining contemporary US political institutions or processes, US foreign policy, or US political history will all be very welcome. We particularly encourage proposals from postgraduate students and early career researchers. |
CFP: Disabilities and American Art Histories |
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Call for Papers: Disabilities and American Art Histories SAAM American Art Journal Deadline: April 1, 2025 https://go.americanart.si.edu/e/980712/ies-and-american-art-histories/h3d3t/733537467/h/NM_1tSwoUZs9-i9T8FTo7VcfmFdZRvzHxyNyVHtIxfw |
CFP: Thinking Art History and Black Studies Together |
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Call for Papers: Thinking Art History and Black Studies Together SAAM American Art Journal Deadline: March 1, 2025 |
FundingFunding opportunities within the American Studies community. |
Research Fellowships at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture |
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The Virginia Museum of History & Culture is accepting applications for its Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships and VMHC Research Fellowships, to promote the interpretation of Virginia and access to its collections. |
OpportunitiesOpportunities for those in the American Studies community. |
CFA: Audrey Flack Short-Term Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum |
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The Audrey Flack Short-Term Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum supports a one-month residency for a predoctoral, postdoctoral, or senior scholar who is researching a topic in American art and who resides, works, or attends school outside of commuting distance from Washington, D.C. Researchers whose personal circumstances (i.e., financial constraints, employment conditions, care-giving responsibilities, or other limitations) preclude them from participating in longer-term residencies are encouraged to apply. Application deadline: February 1, 2025. |
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) Steering Committee Vacancies |
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SHAW invites expressions of interest to join its steering committee: ECR Representative, Treasurer and Membership Secretary |
3-year PostDoc Position: American Visual History “Documentary Drawing in the 20th Century” |
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Based at the Amerika-Institut at the University of Munich, the project “Documentary Drawing in the 20th Century” is seeking a PostDoc researcher (100%; 36 months) with a background in Art History, American History, or a related field. Key responsibilities include running and researching the section of the project concerned with “documentary drawing in war”, and co-curating the exhibition planned for 2027. Job starts no later than May 2025. |
PGRNews and events related to our PGR community. |
PhD fellowships in American Studies available at the University of Oslo |
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We have PhD fellowships available in Area Studies at the University of Oslo. (American Studies comes under this umbrella.) In Norway, these fellowships are treated as jobs with benefits: healthcare, pensions, maternity/paternity leave, ample research funding, and paid vacations. Yearly salary: (NOK 532,200-575,400, or approx. £37.4k-£40.4k). Deadline: February 28, 2025. Start date: September 1, 2025. See more here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/271067/doctoral-research-fellowship-in-area-studies |
USSO Posts
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USSO is the PGR & ECR network for BAAS. Each Thursday they host #WriteAmStudies on Twitter, so share your work using the hashtag and engage with other researchers. You can find some of our latest posts below. |
Recent news from Some-Other Blog:
- BAAS 2023 Panel Review: 8H-GreenBAAS Panel ‘”Our House is Still on Fire”: New Research in Environmental American Studies’ <p>BAAS 2023 Panel Review: 8H- GreenBAAS Panel ‘“Our House is Still on Fire”: New Research in Environmental American Studies’ Since debuting at 2021’s BAAS Annual Conference, GreenBAAS’s panels have become something of an annual fixture, acquiring a reputation for interdisciplinarity, provocativeness, and contemporary relevance. These features were again apparent as GreenBAAS re-convened on the final day of the BAAS 2023 Annual Conference for a panel chaired by Christine Okoth (Lecturer, KCL) and entitled, after a quotation from Greta Thunberg, ‘Our House is Still on Fire.’ Building on ‘Teaching Environmental American Studies in a Time of Crisis’ (BAAS 2021, published in The Journal of American Studies) and ‘Code Red: Embedding the Climate Crisis in the American Studies Curriculum’ (BAAS 2022, published in Transatlantica), 2023’s discussion offered a wide-ranging discussion with two overwhelming themes: the diversity of environmental thought and the imbrications of climate crisis with global imperialism and settler colonialism. Ananya […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usso.uk/reviews/conference-reviews/baas-2023-panel-review-8h-greenbaas-panel-our-house-is-still-on-fire-new-research-in-environmental-american-studies/">BAAS 2023 Panel Review: 8H-GreenBAAS Panel ‘”Our House is Still on Fire”: New Research in Environmental American Studies’</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usso.uk">U.S. Studies Online</a>.</p>
- BAAS 2023 Panel Review: 5E-Negotiating American Spaces <p>BAAS Panel Review: 5E- Negotiating American Spaces From the musings of the Transcendentalists to Turner’s frontier thesis, Chicano Aztlán, and the intercommunal visions of the Black Panthers, space has long been critical to American Studies. On April 13th, an all-star interdisciplinary team of PhD students from the University of Manchester found a space at the BAAS 2023 Annual Conference to negotiate this keyword. Across four presentations, their striking and wide-ranging papers investigated “how space operates within our research fields across various literature and media and how different groups have negotiated space across society.” The chairperson Samson Thozer opened proceedings with a lyrical examination of the poet Robert Hayden’s (1913-1980) writings regarding his childhood and adolescent home, the Detroit cultural hub and magnet for Black migrants during the Great Migration, Paradise Valley. Paradise Valley was a consistent source of inspiration for Hayden. The first Black Poet Laureate, Hayden once remarked that […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usso.uk/reviews/conference-reviews/baas-2023-panel-review-negotiating-american-spaces/">BAAS 2023 Panel Review: 5E-Negotiating American Spaces</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usso.uk">U.S. Studies Online</a>.</p>
- Book Hour with David Watson’s Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction <p>The next U.S. Studies Online Book Hour will take place 28th April 2023, at 4pm GMT/12pm EST with Dr. David Riddle Watson and his first monograph, Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan Crime Files Series, 2021). Dr. Watson teaches at Central Carolina Community College. He completed his Ph.D. in 2019 from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His work focuses on the intersection between rhetoric, literature, and real-world events. He is currently working on his second monograph Surveillance Noir, which will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2024. Truth to Post-Truth traces the networks of thought about what is real and what is not from the Vietnam War through the end of the Cold War and the rise of the “post-truth” moment of our present day. The book is a philosophical journey through post-truth America. Furthermore, the book examines questions of truth and relativism, turning to detectives, both […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usso.uk/ussobookhour/17254/">Book Hour with David Watson’s Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usso.uk">U.S. Studies Online</a>.</p>
- European Initiatives in American Studies-The Roosevelt Institute for American Studies <p>To kickstart our new series on American Studies on the continent, we travelled to Middelburg in the Netherlands to hear all about the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, a centre for research and collaboration established in 1986. Since 2003, RIAS’ PhD seminars have brought the best and brightest of American Studies scholars from across the globe to the Netherlands to showcase and discuss their research. Today, we heard about our guests’ experiences of this unique program, learned how to get funding, marvelled at RIAS’s archival collections, and reflected on both the challenges and advantages of working, researching, and conferencing in continental Europe. We were joined by Aija Oksman (University of Edinburgh) to discuss all this with Gaetano di Tommaso, one of the program’s coordinators and a post-doc at RIAS, and David Carlson and Heleen Blommers, PhD students at the University of Notre Dame and Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam respectively. Thank you […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usso.uk/eyes-on-events/european-initiatives-in-american-studies-the-roosevelt-institute-for-american-studies/">European Initiatives in American Studies-The Roosevelt Institute for American Studies</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usso.uk">U.S. Studies Online</a>.</p>
- Book Review: Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird, by Gene Andrew Jarrett <p>A comprehensive biography of Dunbar was long overdue. His brief life was influenced by most of the major forces affecting Black life after emancipation: the legacy of slavery, Reconstruction, civil rights, migration from South to North, city life and the limited integration it brought. His remarkable and swift ascent to fame showed the possibilities and the limitations of Black art for a population that sorely needed public voices. I understand Dunbar’s central place in the story of the late nineteenth-century better now than I did, and for that reason I am glad I read Jarrett’s biography. Still, I hope that those who seek this story in the future will have the opportunity to read a revised edition.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://usso.uk/reviews/book-reviews/book-review-paul-laurence-dunbar-the-life-and-times-of-a-caged-bird-by-gene-andrew-jarrett/">Book Review: Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird, by Gene Andrew Jarrett</a> appeared first on <a href="https://usso.uk">U.S. Studies Online</a>.</p>