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This monograph offers the first comparative examination of American and New Zealand fiction writing, taking the Pacific War as a locus point. It utilizes postcolonial theory, island studies, and trauma theory to determine the extent to which ideologies traceable to the Second World War continue to manifest in fiction writing. In light of current discussions surrounding Christopher Nolan's film Oppenheimer, Chapter 5's focus on novelizations of the Manhattan Project story is especially timely.

The Teaching American Studies Network invites proposals for a one-day symposium to be held at the University of Warwick on 9 July 2024. The theme for the 2024 Symposium is “Decoloniality: Difficulties and Multiplicities”.

Registration for this year’s Digital BAAS conference will be closing on Tuesday, so if you haven’t registered, please do as soon as possible! Digital BAAS will be held entirely on Discord, an interactive online server that offers opportunities for networking, socialising, and sharing ideas informally, as well as more formal research-sharing. Attendees will be able to listen to panels, chat with colleagues, and form new connections all in one space!

Confidence man and canny operative, charlatan and manipulator--William A. A. Carsey emerged from the shadow of Tammany Hall to build a career undermining working-class political organizations on behalf of the Democratic Party. Mark A. Lause’s biography of Carsey takes readers inside the bare-knuckle era of Gilded Age politics.

Since its establishment as an academic research field in the U.S. in the late 1970s, public history has grown significantly, serving as a vital tool for examining contemporary issues, community memories, and conflicts at both scholarly and practical levels. USAbroad invites public history or public history-related contributions investigating US compelling past(s), heritage, memories, and socio-economic fractures. Please submit your abstract (500 words max) and your CV (2 pages max) to usabroad@unibo.it by May 5, 2024. Successful applicants will be notified by May 15, 2024, at the latest.

An asynchronous course is offered by the Center for Education and Lifelong Learning of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, this spring under the following title: Multimodality: Print and Digital Anglophone Narratives (3,5 ECTS).The 100-hour program is delivered by the members of the “Multimodal Research and Reading Group” of the Department of American Literature and Culture of School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.  The course provides an in-depth understanding of American literary multimodal storytelling in print and digital format.