#americanstudies — Public Fediverse posts
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If you're more of a dog person, we got "In Dogs We Trust" for you - the 1st anthology of #dogs in #AmericanLiterature - covering texts 1644-1954 (fiction, #poetry & nonfiction, mostly 19th & early 20th c), edited by Jacob F Rivers, III & Jeffrey Makala
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2) The new volume of aspeers - the renowned, peer-reviewed journal by grad students of #AmericanStudies at Uni Leipzig - looks at "Spaces of Resistance" in #USPolitics & film, #hiphop #nostalgia, #quietquitting discourse & #AmericanLiterature & #CanadianLiterature
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Buchvorstellung: „Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington“ – Veranstaltung am Heidelberg Center for American Studies gewährt Einblicke in aktuelle Forschung zu amerikanischem Pfarrer und ehemaligem Sklaven https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/buchvorstellung-rediscovering-james-wc-pennington
_________Book Presentation: “Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington” – Event at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies grants insights into current research on the American pastor and former slave https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/book-presentation-rediscovering-james-wc-pennington
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #amerikanistik #americanstudies #theologie #pennington
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260 Wissenschaftler:innen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für #Amerikastudien (DGfA) treffen sich Ende Mai an der Universität #Münster. Das letzte Mal war die Jahrestagung der DGfA 1991 hier zu Gast, also vor 35 Jahren. Ein Gespräch mit Prof. Dr. Silvia Schultermandl darüber, worum es in den „#AmericanStudies“ und in den Beiträgen der Konferenz „Kinship in American Studies“ geht, und warum sich der kulturwissenschaftliche Blick über den Atlantik gerade jetzt lohnt:
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After Kamala Harris’s defeat by Donald Trump in the 2024 election, many people concerned with equality in the United States have been asking: “What now?”
Rachel Marie Davis examines feminism in Trump’s second term. She looks at how feminists responded to Trump over the past decade, which strategies failed to connect with the wider public, and what progressive leaders can learn from these experiences 👇
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#CallforPapers #CfP by the Obama Institute Mainz for a student #conference
topic: “‘We Hold These Truths’? 250 Years Later
deadline: February 28, 2026
conference dates: June 19- 20, 2026.#DeclarationOfIndependence #America250 #AmericanStudies #USA250
link for details: http://www.obama-institute.com/call-for-papers-we-hold-these-truths-250-years-later/
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"The United States of Medievalism" is a #CulturalStudies essay collection edited by Tison Pugh & Susan Aronstein traces the (visual) influence of the European #MiddleAges on today's USA - in #themeparks #gardens #architecture - on highways, in Las Vegas & during Mardi Gras
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#MerryChristmas 🎁
Will there be any books under your tree this year?
If so, why not explore the tradition of "The Literary Gift in Early America" with David Faflik's interdisciplinary study on gifting books, #giftbooks & beyond!https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=189304355X
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4 doctoral scholarships at the Graduate School of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at @freieuniversitaet
Deadline: 31 Jan, 2026https://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/graduateschool/news/2025-11-14_CfA-2025.html
#AmericanStudies #CanadianStudies #CulturalStudies #AmericanLiterature #CanadianLiterature #scholarship
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"Radical Play" by Rob Goldberg traces the revolution in the 1960s and 70s toystore, a time in #AmericanHistory when social movements (#CivilRights M. & #BlackPanther #feminism & anti-Vietnam war movement) were mirrored in #toys
#MaterialCulture #CulturalStudies #AmericanStudies #ChildhoodStudies
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This new 2025 monograph by Grant Matthew Jenkins examines the avant-garde stance and methods of Black American poets in #poetry since 1980 with a focus on their portrayal of the Other
#BlackWriters #BlackStudies #AmericanStudies #LiteraryStudies #PostcolonicalStudies
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"Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children’s and Young Adult Literature" ist das Thema einer Online-Konferenz, zu der die #AmericanStudies am Englischen Seminar @uni-muenster.de vom 12. bis 14. November einladen. Interessierte können sich anmelden, Infos: uni.ms/c692l #LitWiss
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Can you believe that #Snoopy, #CharlieBrown & the other Peanuts are 75 years old #OTD ? The 1st ever #Peanuts strip was published 2 Oct, 1950!
You can find all volumes of the complete Peanuts comic strips as well as several secondary sources in our collection! 🥜 -
Or read Myka Tucker-Abramson's "Cartographies of Empire" for an in-depth analysis of the #roadnovel & its place in political economy, problematising the genre's #Americanness by discussing examples from 20+ countries
#AmericanLiterature #AmericanStudies #genrestudies #LiteraryStudies #Roadtrip
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It's (Sea-) #MonsterMonday so here's 3 monster-themed books!
Emerging from the oceans is #Godzilla for this French-Canadian analysis of Godzilla & America by Alain Vézina on the clash of #AmericanCulture with Japan in film, economy, geopolitics & the aftermath of WWII -
You love #GraphicNovels & #Libraries ? Then this essay collection, edited by Carrye Kay Syma, Robert G. Weiner & Donell Callender is for you! The 18 essays look at the depiction of #librarians & #archives in a variety of (mostly 🇺🇸) #comics incl. #Marvelcomics & #BTVS 's Giles
#ComicsStudies #ComicStudies #AmericanStudies #PopularCulture
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Kaitlin Reed's book "Settler Cannabis" places the Northern California green rush in the historical context of settler-colonial violence against #Yurok & other Indigenous peoples of #California
#IndigenousStudies #PostcolonialStudies #AmericanStudies #AmericanHistory #counterculture #AmericanHistory
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Addicted to new books? 😵💫We got 2 trippy reads for you!
"The Acid Queen" by Susannah Cahalan recounts the #biography of Rosemary Woodruff Leary, ex-wife of Timothy Leary & #counterculture icon#AmericanHistory #Popculture #AmericanStudies
Read Cahalan's Vogue article: https://www.vogue.com/article/the-little-known-story-of-rosemary-woodruff-leary
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Es ist der 4. Juli – der US-Unabhängigkeitstag! 🎇🗽
Wenn ihr kritische Analysen zu US-amerikanischer Politik, Recht, Gesellschaft und Geschichte von renommierten Amerikanist*innen sucht, ist das New American Studies Journal (NASJ) unsere Empfehlung für euch!
Ihr findet alle Ausgaben kostenlos zum Download auf der Seite des Journals, sowie auf dem Repositorium unseres FID Anglo-American Culture, The Stacks. #subgöttingen #americanstudies #IndependenceDay #4thofJuly #4thofjuly #openaccess -
It's #4thOfJuly - #IndependenceDay
Find critical analyses of #AmericanHistory & politics by renowned #AmericanStudies scholars, as well as #poetry & articles on #AmericanCulture & #Literature & more, in the New American Studies Journal, free & #openaccess in our repository! -
Amanda Jones @abmack33 is "That Librarian" who stands up against #bookbans in the US - more important than ever now during #PrideMonth
Her book, part #memoir and part manifesto, has now been added to our #library collection. Find it here:https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1900831007
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In the GAPS #conference panel " #CulturalStudies Approaches to Neoliberal Capitalism", Alexander Rüter spoke abt startup mentality & Neal Stephenson's "Termination Shock", Nora Pleßke read Beukes' "Zoo City" w Orwell and Harald Pittel talked about #IndianCinema / #Bollywood & cinema halls in crisis
#PostcolonialStudies #AmericanStudies #LiteraryStudies #FilmStudies
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May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Use #AAPIHM (or any other month!) to learn more about the #AsianAmerican #PacificIslander communities with our many resources - we could never fit all of them in 1 picture, so here's a very small selection
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American civil rights activist Malcolm X was born #OTD 100 years ago!
Find a wide array on literature about #MalcolmX & his activism, incl. several #biographies - in English, German, French & in comic book form!
#BlackStudies #AmericanHistory #AmericanStudies #ComicsStudies #CivilRights #BLM
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Learning about #JewishAmerican history for #JAHM ?
If you're in Germany, you can explore 'Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954', a wide-ranging digital archive, co-financed by us &
@JuedStudien
@rel_bib
@FID_Ost
@historicumnet.bsky.social👉More info on our website: https://libaac.de/home/full-view-post/detail/News/new-nation-wide-licence-jewish-life-in-america-c1654-1954/
... or head directly to the digital collections on #JewishHistory in #America at AM Digital:
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Farm to Taber draws a direct line of succession from the plantation #oligarchy of the #Confederacy to #usa #oligarchs of today in six short minutes.
With my masters degree in #americanStudies I could not do a better job connecting #class #agriculture #psychology and #economics to understand the impact of #TradeWar on the #civilWar
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In his Inaugural Adress, Donald #Trump vowed to support Elon Musk’s Mars colonization mission as the United States' "manifest destiny", a divine mandate to conquer space - a 19th century concept which was once used to justify the U.S. westward expansion.
At the HCA Graduate Blog, Peggy Reeder argues that space is no longer just a scientific frontier, but has become a spiritual and ideological battleground ⬇
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#GeorgeOrwell's #1984 starts on 04/04 #OTD
For this occasion, 2 new books on #disinformation & resistance:
Joseph R. Hayden's "A History of Disinformation in the US" & Richard L. Abel's "How Autocrats Seek Power: Resistance to #Trump & #Trumpism" -
"Black Cowboys and Early Cattle Drivers" by Nancy Williams tells the story of cattle trails such as the Goodnight-Loving, Western, Chisholm & Shawnee Trails and of the Black cowboys who in 1870 made up a quarter of all #cowboys
#BlackHistoryMonth #AmericanHistory #AmericanStudies #BHM #BlackStudies