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The nineteenth issue of aspeers is now available in print and online.
The issue features a number of contributions centering around the theme of "American Spaces of Resistance."
Graduate Contributions are by:
- Adam Anzel on "The Contours of Conservative Populism in J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (2016)"
- Robert Hayes II on “All the Feels: Affective Language and Counter-Resistance in American HR Discourse on Quiet Quitting”
- Jana Luckhardt on ““A Good Meal Always Makes You Feel a Little More Human”: Gendering the Cannibal and Embodying Resistance in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman”
- Michéle Maria Fast on “Her Image and Her Flesh: Phenomenology, the Haptic, and the Image of Woman—A Comparative Study of Charles Vidor’s Gilda and Jane Campion’s The Piano”
- Alexander Hacke-Johnson on “Chthulucene Complications in Richard Powers’s The Overstory”
In addition, aspeers 19 (2026) contains a professorial-voice piece by Dr. Marthin Lüthe ("Resisting Resistance? Hip Hop Studies, Nostalgia, and the Underground"), a dialogue on art and resistance with author and scholar Hannah Michell ("Narratives of Resistance: A Dialogue with Hannah Michell"), an introduction by the graduate editors, and a brief foreword.
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