The ASL-based graduate journal aspeers just published its new calls for papers. The general section of the 14 (2021) issue aims to showcase, without topical restrictions, outstanding academic work done on the MA level of American studies at European universities. The topical section will feature academic submissions organized around the theme of “Narratives of American Colonization and Imperialism.”
To write your BA thesis at American Studies Leipzig, you need two advisers from the list of BA advisers below. Please carefully familiarize yourself with the deadlines and with the procedures for choosing an adviser. Please note that thesis advisers have limited capacity, so it is best to start the conversation early.
Former Picador Professor Daniel Peña has sent us a brilliant audio essay on Reckonings and Revolution in 2020in which he explores the possibilities for a revolution in the USA based on the peaceful revolution in Leipzig in 1989:
“Who better to save America from itself than the black and brown people who still buy in the idea of it.”
Submitted by Vivian Sadlik on Sun, 07/12/2020 - 12:54
While the doors to the Bibliotheca Albertina had been closed for the sake of everyone’s health during the current COVID-19 situation, some rearrangements in the organization of the open access areas for British and American Studies took place.
Schadewaldt, Annika. “Going Slumming in Mexico: Rereading Primitivism in Katherine Anne Porter’s Flowering Judas and Other Stories.” Beyond the Margins: A Journal of Graduate Literary Scholarship, vol. 1, 2020.
“ ‘To Tell the Kitchen Version’: Architectural Figurations of Race and Gender in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” Repub. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: A Norton Critical Edition. 2nd ed. Ed. Frances Smith Foster and Richard Yarborough. New York: Norton, 2018. 341-50.
Wöll, Steffen. “‘To Be Murdered’: Simulations of Objectivity, Subjectivity, and Violence in
Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood.” Irish Journal of American Studies 8 (2019). Web.
in which he explores the possibilities for a revolution in the USA based on the peaceful revolution in Leipzig in 1989:
