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The association produces a range of publications for our members and the wider American Studies community in the UK and internationally.

You can find out more about these publications below, and follow the links to find out more. BAAS publications include the BAAS weekly mail list, which provides a digest of events, opportunities, and news, the Journal of American Studies, U.S. Studies Online, and Critical Insights in American Studies.

The Journal of American Studies

The Journal of American Studies seeks to critique and interrogate the notion of “America”, pursuing this through international perspectives on the history, literature, politics and culture of the United States. The Journal publishes works by scholars from all over the world on American literature, history, institutions, politics, economics, film, popular culture, geography and related subjects in domestic, continental, hemispheric, and global contexts.

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U.S. Studies Online

US Studies Online: A Forum for New Writing is the online home of BAAS’s Postgraduate and Early Career Network. Short-listed in two categories in the ‘UK Blog Awards’, US Studies Online hosts blog posts on the latest research in American Studies, as well as interviews and advice on career development.

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The BAAS Mail List

The BAAS mailing list is a weekly digest of opportunities, events and news related to the American Studies community. You can find out more about the mailing list and sign up to receive our weekly digest direct to your inbox.

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Critical Insights in American Studies

A definitive series of monographs that are accessible and focused books in the field or subfield of American Studies, published by Edinburgh University Press (formerly known as BAAS Paperbacks).

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BAAS Awards

Each year, BAAS offers a growing list of awards, prizes, teaching assistantships, and research assistance awards. In recent years, we have added a new essays award for students of colour at school, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and, in light of the climate crisis and our commitment to promote low-carbon research practices, we transformed the travel assistance awards into research assistance awards, offering the possibility of hiring research assistants to pursue archival research remotely.

BAAS is committed to promoting best practice in matters of equality and diversity, and will be attentive to issues of equality and diversity when judging all applications.