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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."
Graduate Contributions are by:
- Sequana Birkel on “Heroic Leadership and Populism in the Twenty-First Century: The Populist Superhero Persona of Donald Trump”
- Lisa Buchegger on “Sympathy for the Witch: The Transformation from Villain to Anti-Heroine in Disney’s Maleficent (2014)”
- Leonie M. J. Kratzenstein on “Queer Confinement and the Rural American Camp in The Miseducation of Cameron Post”
- Maximilian Pott on “Cooking in Crisis: Everyday Heroism in Blanche Armwood Perkins’s Cookbook Food Conservation in the Home”
- Natalie Warremann on “Gel Manicures, a Thirty-Thousand-Dollar Stove, and Gender Oppression: The Lives of Mormon Influencers”
In addition, aspeers 18 (2025) contains a professorial-voice piece by Prof. Dr. Carmen Birkle ("Women Who Rocked the World: Heroines of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century US America"), four artistic contributions, an introduction by the graduate editors, and a brief foreword.
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