The University of Leipzig reported on the aspeers project in the latest (3/2008) issue of the Uni Journal. 

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

On behalf of Prof. Marina Camboni, contributor to the 1 (2008) issue of aspeers, we broadcast the following conference announcement. The conference promises to be attractive for junior scholars as well.

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.

Lest this go unnoticed in the midst of all these frenzies (copy editing, tsunami tuesday, copy editing, super bowl, ...): we are now fully featured at the American Studies Leipzig homepage :)

We've been receiving some questions on the editorial process and on what kind of feedback contributors can expect. We appreciate these questions, and since we feel that they are more general ones we have started an FAQ section to address these (and related) issues.

If you have more questions, feel free to email us and we'll get back to you.