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This page lists articles highlighted by our editors as noteworthy contributions to their particular issues. This gives each website visitor a brief sampling of the latest strong scholarship in American studies from around the world.
Beyond the 'Futureless Future': Edward O. Bland, Afro-Modernism and The Cry of Jazz
By William Sites
American Studies
Precarious Locations: Streaming TV and Global Inequalities
By Curtis Marez
American Studies
"To Help Enlighten Our People": 'Theater Folk' and Stage Advice Columns in the 1920s Chicago Defender
By Michelle R. Scott
American Studies
The Confession of an Uncontrived Sinner: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"
By Małgorzata Grzegorzewska
Polish Journal for American Studies
Brilliant phenomenological analysis of the ticking sound in Poe’s story.
The Problems of Environmental Criticism: An Interview with Lawrence Buell
By Julia Fiedorczuk
Polish Journal for American Studies
An interview with Lawrence Buell on environmental criticism.
- "All of our lives have been terribly shaped by what went on before us": History and (Post)memory in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family and Anil's Ghost
- Contrastive Study of Lexical Profiles of International and U.S. Lectures Delivered in English
- Philip K. Dick’s Decohering and Recohering Worlds: The Cases of Ubik and The Man in the High Castle
- The Quest for Self-Expression: Anzia Yezierska’s Portrayal of America as a Fake Golden Country
- Paul Beatty’s The Sellout as Allegory of the U.S. Carceral System
- Rewriting the American Dream for the Trump Era and Beyond in Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success (2018)
- "You": A Girl amidst Images and Sounds of Adult Violence in Joyce Carol Oates's Rape: A Love Story
- The Double-Headed Arrow of Trauma: The Morally Traumatised Perpetrator in Martin Amis's Time's Arrow
- Mapping the Self: Leonora Carrington's Journey through the Mad Mind in Down Below
- On the Elective Affinity Between Pragmatism and Hermeneutics: An Introduction
- Pitt on a Pedestal: Sculpture and Slavery in Late-Eighteenth-Century Charleston
- 'to transplant in alien soil': Race, Nation, Citizenship, and the Idea of Emigration in the Revolutionary Atlantic