by cristina.sanchez | Sep 16, 2024 | Calls publications
CFPs – European Journal of American Studies While literary studies has traditionally analyzed its objects in terms of specific genres, forms, or modes, this special issue wants to tap into more recent impulses to center sensory and affective experience in literature...
by cristina.sanchez | Sep 16, 2024 | Calls events
Description: Ever since Steven Russell, Wayne Wittanen, and J. M. Graetz, three MIT employees who fantasized about bringing Edward E. Smith’s (1890-1965) Skylark novels (1915-1966) to the big screen, developed Spacewar! (1961), one of the first digital games created...
by cristina.sanchez | Sep 16, 2024 | Calls publications
CFPs – aspeers 17 (2024) 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...
by cristina.sanchez | Sep 16, 2024 | Calls events
Description: In 2025, we commemorate the centenary of Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The novel explores, among other themes, the downside of the American Dream and how achieving material wealth does not guarantee happiness. In 1931, James Truslow Adams published...
by cristina.sanchez | Sep 16, 2024 | Publications, Recents
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography Summary: For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs—brother of Harriet...
