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Women in American Studies Network is seeking a new Chair or Co-Chairs to carry on the crucial work of this network in the current Transatlantic political climate. Please submit your EoI to womenamericanstudiesnetwork@gmail.com by 1 September 2025. .
BAAS members with an interest in American literature are invited to join the international Paul Auster Society.
Forthcoming title | 'The Spectral West : Super-Nature and the Gothic in the Western Film' - A must-read for American Studies scholars.
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Arthur Miller First Book Prize and the Arthur Miller Article Prize.
International Network of Nineteen-Fifties Culture (INNC) 3rd Annual Symposium Call for Papers: The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture Date: 19 September 2025 Location: Online Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr Gabrielle Decamous, Kyushu University, Japan, author of Invisible Colors: The Arts of the Atomic Age (2019)
American Nineteenth Century History, the official journal of British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH), published three times a year by Taylor & Francis, seeks replacements for its current book review editors, David Cox (University of Southampton) and Dawn Wiley (University of Alabama). We would ideally like to appoint two editors, one based in the US and the other in the UK. Please apply EITHER as an individual OR as a duo.
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