aspeers is now listed on the ASA's American Studies Journals Directory! The entry will hopefully add even more international visibility to the project. Check out the listing at www.theasa.net/journals/name/aspeers_emerging_voices_in_american_studies

The Deutschlandfunk, Germany's public radio service, had a report on aspeers on the air today. You can find a transcript of the 4 minute feature at the Deutschlandfunk homepage: http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/campus/777685/.

You can also listen to the report through their audio on demand interface, or download it below. 

The campus radio station mephisto97.6 has reported on aspeers's first issue today. Read all of the report (German only) on their article page.

You can also download the report and listen to it at the mephisto webpage or below.

Just a short update on two recent events: One of this year's contributors - Stuart Noble - wrote a short piece on the renowned blog Atlantic Community, were he reports on our journal launch and on his experiences in the editing process. We're happy about both, the publicity and traffic this brought to our site, as well as the friendly remarks :)

Next Thursday, April 24, 3 pm, we will celebrate the official release of aspeers with a short inaugural ceremony at the Bibliotheca Albertina Lecture Hall. Please refer to the attached flyer for more details.

We're in print. Sent the final version of the manuscript to the printer last night. Now we're waiting for the first copies... yeahi.

Somewhat unrelated to the process of publishing this journal, but still quite amazing: Two members of the aspeers editorial staff were just published in The Atlantic Monthly. Responding to an essay contest on "The American Idea," Heather and Alexandra's contributions were selected top 25 out of 400 submissions to be published in this most prestigious venue.

Yes. We all had an idea of how exhausting this process would be. And yes, some of us had been there before. But still, all of us were amazed at how much time and energy thorough line editing will take, how much improvement can go into an already almost perfect List of Works Cited, how many times you can review a paper and still find misplaced commas... And no, this will not be perfect in the end, but a little closer, and then a little more.