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Atlantis : journal of the Spanish association of Anglo-American studies
http://www.atlantisjournal.org/
'Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies' is a full-text online ejournal, published by the Ciudad Universitaria in Madrid. Online back-issues date from 1979 onwards. An inspection of the contents pages for online articles shows a mix of Spanish and English articles and reviews, with an increasing preponderance of English articles in issues after 2000. Articles are freely available for download in PDF format. Example article titles from recent issues are: 'Shelley's Orientalia: Indian Elements in his Poetry'; 'From Balaclavas to Jumpsuits: The Multiple Histories and Identities of Doctor Who's Cybermen'; 'Making Something Out of Nothing: Lesbianism as Liberating Fantasy in The Children's Hour'; and 'Roger Waters' Poetry of the Absent Father: British Identity in Pink Floyd's The Wall', among many others. This will be an interesting journal for those seeking fresh scholarly perspectives on British and American culture. The website also has details of the Editorial Board and submission procedures.
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Columbia journal of American studies
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cjas/
'The Columbia Journal of American Studies' is a full-text peer-reviewed ejournal that aims to publish on the... "borderland between academia and journalism". It is officially published by the Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. There appears to be no volume or issue structure, and instead there are pages for six themes, pages that presumably accumulate relevant articles as time passes. These themes are: Media; Politics; Culture; Arts; Science; and The Academy. Articles are freely available as HTML Web pages. Example titles include: 'On Being a Reviewer'; 'L/G/B/T/Q and its Discontents'; and 'Revisiting Slave Religion', among others. One print issue from 2006 is also available online, in the form of a 195Mb PDF download, and this includes essays such as: 'Folklore Matters: The Folklore Scholarship of Alan Dundes and the New American Studies'; and 'Norman Mailer and The Executioner's Song: The Courtroom as a Literary Space', among others. The website has details of the Advisory Board and submissions process.
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Japanese Association for American Studies
http://www.jaas.gr.jp/
The website of the Japanese Association for American Studies provides information about the activities and publications of this academic association, which brings together scholars from many disciplines looking at different aspects of American societies and cultures. Most of the site is accessible in English and Japanese versions, including contents lists of one of the publications, the 'American Review'; however, the contents lists of the newsletter are Japanese-only. Full-text versions of current and past issues of 'The Japanese Journal of American Studies' (English-language) can be accessed via the site. Programmes of annual conferences since 1999 are also available, and there are links to the websites of other relevant organisations within and outside Japan.
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American studies journal
http://asjournal.zusas.uni-halle.de/
'American Studies Journal' is a full-text ejournal, published from the Center for United States Studies, at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. At April 2009 there are three recent issues freely available online, and tables-of-contents for issues from November 1996 until Winter 2001. This elegantly presented journal ranges widely into fields such as politics and education, but also appears to regularly publish substantial scholarly articles on arts and cultural issues. Some issues are themed, with themes such as 'The Outlaw and the American Cultural Landscape'. Articles available online include: 'Political Outlaws: Beat Cowboys' (on the Beat writers); 'From Subterranean to Suburban: The Landscapes of Gay Outlaw Writing'; 'Outlaw Artists and the Urban Landscape: Does One Have to be Bad to Be Good?'; and 'The Reflection of Race and Law in African American Literature', among others. Until 1995 the publication was titled 'American Studies Newsletter'.
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European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
http://www.eaas.eu/
EAAS was founded in 1953 in Salzburg, Austria. "The objects and aims of the Association are to encourage the study of and research in all areas of American culture and society and to promote cooperation and intercommunication between European scholars of the United States from all parts of Europe and from various disciplines." EAAS organises regular conferences, publishes research (including The European Journal of American Studies), and encourages scholarly networking.
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European journal of American studies
http://ejas.revues.org/
This is the website of the European Journal of American Studies (EJAS), produced by the European Association for American Studies (EAAS) and hosted by Revues.org. Commencing in 2006, the Journal is issued three or four times a year and full text is archived on this site. Articles can be found by searching the 'Author', 'Name' and 'Keyword' indices. Access to EAAS Newsletters and EAAS Reviews is available through this site as is 'The European Library of American Studies': a bibliography listing full-length publications in English by European scholars of American Studies whose native language is not English. Each issue of EJAS is, apparently, "...either thematically composed or incrementally evolutive..." and aims to foster European views on US society, culture, politics and history by forming a forum for "European Americanists" of all generations.
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Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/
The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) is a large international professional membership association for students, scholars and researchers involved in all aspects of the study of Latin America. This includes coverage of the history, politics, language, culture, economics and society of nations of Latin America, the Caribbean, and its people throughout the Americas. Its website provides information on the aims of the organisation, its membership and activities. It includes news about conferences, details about its journal Latin American Research Review (LARR) and access to the full text of issues of its newletter LASA Forum from 2006 onwards. These include articles on recent research activities. Access to some full text materials is for members only.
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Americana : ejournal of American studies in Hungary
http://americanaejournal.hu/
'Americana: ejournal of American Studies in Hungary' is an ejournal of American Studies published by the University of Szeged. At January 2009 the website contains six issues, offering full-text articles and reviews in HTML form. Example article titles are: 'A Vampiric Relation to Feminism: The Monstrous-Feminine in Whitley Strieber's and Anne Rice's Gothic Fiction'; 'The Shock of Unrecognition: Single-Girl Narrative in Ann Beattie's Short Stories and "Postfeminist" TV Shows'; and '"A Whole New World(?)" - Rereading Disney Animations of the Early 1990', among others. Vol.3 No.2 was a special themed issue on the American pragmatist philosopher John Dewey. A future edition will be devoted to American poets and poetry. The website contains details of the journal, its Editorial Board, and submission procedures. There is a keyword search facility for the website and journal contents.
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American studies homepage
http://libarts.wsu.edu/amerst/
This website incorporates the Washington State University American studies program web projects which cover a wide breadth of information on the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. It is organised with the following Web resource project subheadings (which can accessed through the links on the left-hand side of the page): American popular culture; multicultural American West; social movements; cultural theory; environmental justice; digital diversity and Internationalism. Invaluable introductions to each of these specific areas of scholarly pursuit, these Web resource projects were originally designed for pedagogical purposes for undergraduates and postgraduates at Washington State University. However, the varied materials covered in them would be appropriate for and accessible to secondary students as well. Each project has a distinctive aesthetic look, and yet, their navigation is similar and uniformly friendly. Broad in scope, each project leads the viewer to a wealth of secondary materials in both electronic and traditional forms.
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Japanese journal of American studies
http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jaas/periodicals/JJAS/
The Japanese Journal of American Studies is a peer-reviewed English-language ejournal devoted to American studies from the perspective of Japanese scholars, particularly the interaction between the two countries. This website provides full-text versions of journal articles. The journal is published by the Japanese Association for American Studies (JAAS), whose members include specialists in humanities areas (for example: history; literature; religion; philosophy; and popular culture) and in social science areas (for example: international relations; economics; political science; sociology; women's studies; and ethnic studies). Journal issues are mainly thematic, and themes have included: Japanese immigrants; postwar US-Japan relations; media and American society; gender; trans-Pacific perspectives; and America at war.
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SLAS (Society for Latin American studies)
http://www.slas.org.uk/
This is the website of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS). The Society based on the United Kingdom was founded in 1964, it organises an annual conference in March/April and sponsors other conferences and seminars to those interested in Latin American studies and affairs. Members of SLAS receive a newsletter three times a year and a free copy of the Bulletin of Latin American Research (BLAR) which is published four times a year. In addition, members can purchase both the Latin American Research Review and the Journal of Latin American Studies at reduced rates. In association with Blackwells, the Society also publishes an annual volume on a chosen aspect of Latin American Studies. This website provides individuals with information related to the society's research; events; conferences and publications.
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British association for American studies
http://www.baas.ac.uk/default.asp
The British Association for American Studies (BAAS) supports and promotes the study of the United States of America in schools, colleges and universities. The extensive website includes details about the Association, news of new resources and events, an online journal "US Studies Online", and other publications.The BAAS Postgraduate section includes news, such as details of BAAS conferences, and recent online publications, as well as BAAS postgraduate awards.The BAAS have published abstracts of the "Journal of American Studies" (since 1997), and subscribers can view the full-text online. There is freely available full-text for the following BAAS serials: "Library and Resources Sub-Committee Newsletter" (since 1999); "U.S. Studies Online: The BAAS Postgraduate Journal" (since 2001); and the BAAS newsletter "American Studies in Britain" (since 1998). A bibliography of the books sponsored by the BAAS is provided, and a bibliography of British records relating to America (in microform).An excellent resource available here online is the full-text of BAAS pamphlets that includes the following topics: Progressivism; The President and the Supreme Court; The Metropolitan Mosaic; The American Dream; The Welfare State in America 1930-1980; Modern Indians; The Immigrant Experience; The People's American Revolution; Emily Dickinson; British America 1607-1776; Hollywood; Nathaniel Hawthorne; The United States and the Cold War; Organized Crime; Women in American Society 1820-1920; Martin Luther King Jr.; Vietnam: American Involvement; Hard Boiled Detective Fiction; Radical Theatre in the 60s and 70s; Language Poetry and the American Avant-Garde; In Nature's Defence; American Women Travellers in Europe; American Horror from 1951.As well as all the BAAS sponsored activity available from the website, of most use might be the Society's springboard onto the Internet - links are arranged into: UK Universities American Studies Programs; UK American Studies Journals; Other Organizations and Institutions; Other American Studies Journals; and American University Presses.
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North American studies group (NASG)
http://scurl.ac.uk/about/nasg/nasg.html
The "North American Studies Group" (NASG) website provides details of resources and holdings in the main Scottish university and research libraries of material that is of interest for the study of the United States of America and Canada. Contained in "Resources for American and Canadian Studies in Scottish University and Research Libraries" are a list of libraries and within each library record there is a general description of their holdings followed by details of the collections under the following categories; modern printed collections, early printed material and special collections (including music), manuscripts and archives, microform and audiovisual collections, official publications, and maps and visual resources. Moreover, in the "US and Canadian newspapers in Scottish Libraries" section, users have access to an alphabetical directory of newspapers that contain location codes to identify their holding library. If individuals are looking for background information on NASG, current projects, details of membership and information on the Scottish Association for the study of America then these can all be found on the homepage.
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Arnet : home page of the American studies centre at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU)
http://www.americansc.org.uk/
"ARNet" is the website of the American Studies Resources Centre at Liverpool John Moores University and provides an information service for schools and colleges that study the United States and the Anglo-American relationship. Users have full-text access to the e-journal American Studies Today Online (1994-), which is searchable by topic or date, book reviews (1997-), and lists of forthcoming conferences and reports from previous ones. In addition, there is a keyword searchable online audio-visual aids catalogue and a detailed directory of website links to organisations and museums with American Studies expertise. Users should know that the entire site is keyword searchable. Moreover, a degree course guide, divided into undergraduate, postgraduate, and Canadian Studies sections, provides readers with quick access to details of North American Studies degree programmes currently offered by universities in the United Kingdom. The site also offers background information and study opportunities available at the centre, links to other useful American studies websites, and contact details.
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British Association for American Studies
http://www.baas.ac.uk/
Founded in 1955, the British Association for American Studies (BAAS) aims to promote, support and encourage the study of the United States in the UK. BAAS organises an annual conference and publishes newsletters, journals, books and pamphlets. These include the Journal of American Studies (ISSN 0021-8758) and U.S. Studies Online (ISSN 1472-9091). Bibliographical and contents information of the publications is available on the website. Some of the publications are available online in html format free of charge. There is also information on student exchange programmes between U.S. and British universities and a collection of links on the website.
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Australasian journal of American studies
http://www.anzasa.arts.usyd.edu.au/a.j.a.s/docs/contents.htm
'The Australasian Journal of American Studies' is a full-text ejournal. At January 2009, full-text issues date from 2002 to 2008, with simple tables-of-contents available for issues from 1991 to 2001. Issues contain scholarly essays, book reviews, conference reports and lecture transcripts, not all of which are relevant to the arts and humanities. Example scholarly article available on cultural and historical topics are: 'Jazz and the New Negro: Harlem's Intellectuals Wrestle with the Art of the Age'; ''You Can't Steal a Gift': Narrative(s) of Nation in Ken Burns' Jazz'; 'Breech Birth: The Receptions to D.W. Griffith's 'The Birth of a Nation''; 'The Irish Films of Martin Scorsese'; and 'Feature Films and Eugenics in the 1920s', among many others. The journal is published by the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association, and the website has details of the editors, the Editoral Board, and the submissions process.
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Journal of transnational American studies
http://repositories.cdlib.org/acgcc/jtas/
Journal of Transnational American Studies is a full-text ejournal, published by the California Digital Library at the University of California. At May 2009 there is one issue online, freely offering a large number of scholarly articles both as abstracts and as PDF files. Example article titles are: 'Emerging from the Shadows: The Visual Arts and Asian American History'; 'America's Other Half: Slum Journalism and the War of 1898'; and 'Imaginary Jews and True Confessions: Ethnicity, Lyricism, and John Berryman's Dream Songs', among others. Also offered in issue one is an extensive special section with articles on or around Mark Twain's 'The War Prayer'. The journal is sponsored by University of California Santa Barbara's American Cultures and Global Contexts Center and Stanford University's Program in American Studies. The website has details of the aims, the editors, the Advisory Board, and the submissions process.
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Journal of Latin American Studies
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=LAS
Journal of Latin American Studies is an academic journal published by Cambridge University Press. The journal is issued quarterly and aims to publish articles that explore the field of Latin American studies in a wide range of academic subject areas, including geography. As well as regular articles on contemporary themes, the journal also includes specially commissioned commentaries and a section of book reviews. The website provides editorial information, publication details, instructions for authors, subscription and order enquiries, tables of contents and abstracts. Full text articles are available through the Cambridge journals online service for a limited number of issues to users whose institutions subscribe to the journal.
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Cultural Maps in American Studies
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MAP/map_hp.html
This Web page created by the American Studies Department at the University of Virginia concentrates on cultural maps of the United States. The page is divided into the following sections which include: the American Historical Atlas; historical geography; map collections online; and a section detailing other maps. In addition the site provides links to the Capitol project and resources on the 1930s.
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Working Papers : David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/publications/working_papers
This page contains online versions of the Working Papers on Latin America Series, published by the David Rockefeller Centre for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, United States of America provided in PDF format (which requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view).
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Miscelanea : a journal of English and American studies
http://www.miscelaneajournal.net/
'Miscelanea: a Journal of English and American Studies' is a full-text ejournal published by the University of Zaragoza, Spain. The journal is almost entirely in English, and at January 2009 there are fifteen issues online. The journal publishes scholarly articles on literature, cultural studies, and film studies. Articles are presented in PDF form. Some example article titles are: 'Exploring identity issues in British men's problem pages: a cultural studies perspective'; 'Dylan Thomas's animal symbology in Celtic tradition: the inner voice of a poet'; and 'The paradox of conflicting identifications in "Third Space" Asian-British cinema of the 1980s'; and 'Post-Baroque sublime? The case of Peter Ackroyd', among many others. The website also has full details of the editors, the Editorial Board, and the submission process. The journal is also produced in paper form, and there are subscription details at the website. There is a listing of the bibliographic compilations in which the journal is indexed.
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Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American studies (WISPS)
http://www.wisps.org.uk/
The website of the British organisation 'Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies' (WISPS) provides information about their aims, conferences, seminars, and members. The organisation is a group of women colleagues working within all areas of Luso-Hispanism, such as feminist theory, history, cultural memory, literature, linguistics, cultural and textual theory, audio and film studies, performance studies, anthropology, geography, queer theory and theatre studies. WISPS also encourages research within areas that cross geographical and linguistic/cultural boundaries. This site details the research interests and current projects of some of its members, providing links to other related sites. There is also information about WISPS' annual conference and contact details. The site is simple in design and offers a useful introduction to the organisation and an opportunity to join a specialised academic community, together with a means of remaining informed of current developments in the field of women's studies.
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Delaware review of Latin American studies
http://www.udel.edu/LASP/DeRLAS.html
The Delaware Review of Latin American Studies (ISSN 1536-1837) is a peer reviewed, interdisciplinary electronic journal that publishes articles and book reviews on all areas of Latin American society, culture and history. Recent articles have discussed such areas as: the influence of popular fiction genres on journalism in Argentina during the years of the Menem government; the deconstruction of the hero in works by Fuentes and Rulfo; and domestic violence in Nueva León, Mexico. The journal also currently features two 'profiles' or extensive interviews with Latin American scholars, Juan Carlos Martínez Cruzado and Peter G Roe. These interviews discuss recent research contributions of genetics to the study of population history and anthropology in Puerto Rico, and research and teaching at the Centro de Investigaciones in Puerto Rico respectively. Diverse in scope, this journal makes available research that will be of interest to anyone working within Latin American studies.
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Latin American studies association : LASA95 papers pilot project
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/lasa95/
This website, part of the larger Latin American Network Information Center, makes available online the full-text of 32 papers presented at the Latin American Studies Association's 1995 conference. The text is available as HTML and general themes covered include: agrarian issues; democracy and human rights; and literature and the arts. More specifically, users will find papers on: Indian movements in 20th century Ecuador; indigenous people, law and politics in Peru; chiapas, democratization and the military in Mexico; Mexican women performance artists and feminism; literary construction of national identity in Honduras through; nascent postmodernism in Puerto Rican letters; and the image of the Jew in early 20th century Argentine popular theatre. The site also features three essays on scholarly resources for Latin American studies, examining the World Bank and UNESCO's contributions to the international debate on higher education; computer-assisted instruction in Latin American Studies (in the US); and LANIC's development and impact upon the field. This pilot project, to publish proceedings online, has been expanded in order to place online papers from the 1997 and 1998 conferences. The breadth of topics addressed by the contributors means that there will certainly be work here to interest both scholars and students working on Latin American Studies.
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Mickle Street review : an electronic journal of Walt Whitman and American studies
http://www.micklestreet.rutgers.edu/
This is the website of the second series of the Mickle Street Review whose mission is "to provide common ground for poets, writers, teachers, students, and readers with an interest in Walt Whitman [1819-1892] or the subjects that he wrote about". The journal was first published, by the Walt Whitman Association, out of Whitman's house on Mickle Street in Camden, New Jersey and is now revived as a project of the Walt Whitman Program in American Studies at Rutgers University in Camden. Full text is available online and there is an archive covering Issue 1 (1979) to date. A 'Listening Room' provides audio clips of Whitman's poetry. In the 'Viewing Room' video films about Whitman and his work can be viewed. Sign-up to receive regular news and events updates.
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