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Latest News and Events

    Decoloniality: Difficulties and Multiplicities: Teaching American Studies Network Symposium

    Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 Teaching American Studies Network Symposium on “Decoloniality: Difficulties and Multiplicities”. The symposium will take place in person / hybrid at the University of Warwick on 9 July 2024. Keynote Speaker: Dr Jonathan Ward, Lecturer in Race and Diversity Studies at King’s College London, and creator of The Abolitionist Curriculum. The full programme and all details are available on our website: https://baas.ac.uk/community/teaching-as/

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    Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature, 1793–1845 by Erin Forbes

    Recent American Studies Book Publication: Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature, 1793–1845 by Erin Forbes How did creative genius develop in tandem with the criminalization of Blackness in the early United States?

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    Eccles Institute Digital Salon

    Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism, by Lorenzo Costaguta.

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    The Abortionist of Howard Street:Medicine and Crime in Nineteenth-Century New York by R.E. Fulton

    Josephine McCarty had many identities. But in Albany, New York, she was known as "Dr. Emma Burleigh," the abortionist of Howard Street.

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    American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer

    University Of Minnesota Press Examining the racial underpinnings of food, microbial medicine, and disgust in America.

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    Online Book Launch: Los Angeles and American Literature

    On Wednesday 26 June, the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck presents a livestreamed discussion and Q&A event to launch new books by Dr. Michael Docherty (The Recursive Frontier: Race, Space, and the Literary Imagination of Los Angeles) and Dr. Ben Robbins (Faulkner's Hollywood Novels: Women Between Page and Screen)

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