editors' blog
aspeers just published its new calls for papers. The general section of the 19 (2026) issue aims to showcase 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 "American Spaces of Resistance."
The eighteenth issue of aspeers is now available in print and online.
The issue features a number of contributions centering around the theme of "American (Anti-)Heroes."
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On May 26, 2025, at 7 pm, aspeers: emerging voices in american studies will celebrate the release of its eighteenth issue.
Over the course of the last winter semester, an editing team of thirteen MA students has worked to select contributions, revise them together with the authors, edit them, and make them ready for publication. The result is a book-size volume to be presented as part of the event.
aspeers just published its new calls for papers. The general section of the 18 (2025) issue aims to showcase 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 "American (Anti-)Heroes."
On May 27, 2024, at 6 pm, aspeers: emerging voices in american studies, the first and currently only peer-reviewed print journal for MA-level American studies scholarship in Europe, will celebrate the release of its seventeenth issue.
Over the course of the last winter semester, an editing team of eleven MA students has worked to select contributions, revise them together with the authors, edit them, and make them ready for publication. The result is a book-size volume to be presented as part of the event.
aspeers just published its new calls for papers. The general section of the 17 (2024) issue aims to showcase 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 "American Conspiracies."
All articles and creative contributions from past aspeers issues (as well as the issues themselves) now have DOIs (digital object identifiers) in order to ensure that all contributions to aspeers can always reliably be referred to. You can find the DOIs in the online version of every individual contribution, under the indication of the page ranges.
From now on, future issues of aspeers will also always feature DOIs.
as|peers is a print and digital journal produced and edited by MA-level students at American Studies Leipzig. In addition to showing the scholarly work produced by students from all over Europe, the journal frequently features art by young artists.
In this open call for art, as|peers is looking for:
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Illustrations
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Paintings
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Photography
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Poetry
aspeers just published its new calls for papers. The general section of the 16 (2023) issue aims to showcase 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 "American Apocalypses."
The fifteenth issue of aspeers is now available in print and online.
The issue features a number of contributions centering around the theme of "American Bodies."
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