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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

📣 CFP: the call for our virtual conference Consuming US Popular Culture: Media Aesthetics, Ethics and Literacy to be held on 27–28 November 2026 is out! Deadline for proposals: 1 November 2026 Find the full call: www.popmec.com/2026-virtual/

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AM_Marini @annamartamarini.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sneak peek of things taking shape @popmec.bsky.social #conference

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

📢 #CFP II International Conference "The Monster and the Evil: Articulations and Derivations of the Idea of Evil in Culture." 📍 University of León, Spain. 📅 April 6-8, 2027. 📩 Deadline for abstract submission: October 31, 2026. 🌐 congresomonstruoule.my.canva.site/home/

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

📢 #CallforAbstracts: Geographies of Star Trek for Transitional Times, edited by David K. Seitz , ksenia fir and Fiona Davidson. 📩 Deadline: A 250-word abstract plus a title and contact information must be sent to dseitz@g.hmc.edu by October 1, 2026.

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

📢 Call for contributions! Special thematic dossier "Aesthetics, Performance, Discourse and Spectacle in the Age of Trumpism" in the journal REDEN. 📰📺👀 🔎 Editor: @annamartamarini.bsky.social ❗ Submission of full papers by November 1, 2026. erevistas.publicaciones.uah.es/ojs/index.ph...

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CFP | Aesthetics, Performance, Discourse and Spectacle in the Age of Trumpism | REDEN. Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos

Editor: Anna Marta Marini (JFKI–Freie Universität Berlin)

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

📣 we extend the CFP for our international in-person conference Futures and Frontiers of US American Culture(s) held at FU Berlin, 30 September – 2 October 2026 Extended deadline for proposals: June 14, 2026 Find the call and details at www.popmec.com/frontiers-20...

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

🤩 We are excited to share that our next conference will take place in Berlin! 🎉 The Futures and Frontiers of US American Culture(s) International Conference will be held at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin. 👉 Full call: www.popmec.com/frontiers-20...

The Futures and Frontiers of US American Culture(s) International Conference will be held at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin. 30 September - 2 October, 2026.

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

📢 Call for articles! Issue on "Playing Politics: Sport, Power and Conflict in U.S. History" for USAbroad: Journal of American History and Politics. 📩 Submission deadline for abstracts: April 7, 2026. 🌐 usabroad.unibo.it/announcement...

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

📢 #CFP MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Conference 2026: "Media and Sustainability." 📍 University of Reading, UK. 📅 September 9, 2026. 📩 Deadline: May 15, 2026. 🌐 baas.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

📢 Call for articles! Special dossier "Digital Projections and Screened Identities in US American Culture" in REDEN, edited by Laura Álvarez Trigo and Anna Marta Marini. 📺💻🎬📱 📩 Submission deadline: April 15, 2026. 🌐https://erevistas.publicaciones.uah.es/ojs/index.php/reden/announcement/view/66

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

📢 #CFP International Seminar "Mythical Archipelagos: Islands, Narratives, and Imaginaries Across Cultures and Media.” 🏝️🌊🔮✨ 📍 Hybrid conference at University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. 📅 May 14-15, 2026 📩 Deadline: March 30, 2026. 🌐 dfmti.ulpgc.es/app/pages/in...

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

📢 #CFP The 53rd AAAS Conference: “Critical Media Analysis, Participatory Culture, and New Textualities: American Studies through a Digital Lens.”💻🌐 📍 The University of Education and the University of the Diocese of Linz. 📅 November 5-7, 2026 📩 Deadline: April 30, 2026. 🌐 aaas.at/annual-confe...

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Annual Conference: Critical Media Analysis, Participatory Cultures, and New Textualities: American Studies through a Digital Lens – Linz 2026 – Austrian Association for American Studies

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SAAS Young Scholars @saas-yscholars.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

😍📚Don’t miss our next reading session! We'll be discussing Tama Leaver's "Early Artificial Intelligence Films: When are you going to let me out of this box".🤖 📅 January 29 - 17:00 💌Free registration + reading materials: reading.saas.ys@gmail.com Attendance is certified!👇

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

📢 Speciall Issue "Resistance and Mediation in the US: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Debates" in InMedia-The French Journal of Media Studies. 🎤📰📱 📩 (New dates) Abstract submission deadline: February 2, 2026. Full article deadline: March 16, 2026. 🌐 journals.openedition.org/inmedia/3691

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CFP – Resistance and Mediation in the US: Historical Perspectives a...

Because they seek to challenge hegemonic structures and discourses, processes of resistance are closely intertwined with issues pertaining to media coverage and exposure (Syvertsen 2017). Insofar a...

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

📢 #CFP The 2026 RAAS – Fulbright Conference: Journeys and Frontiers in American Literature and Culture. 📚🎬🎶 📍 Faculty of Letters at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania. 📅 October 8-10, 2026. 📩 Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2026. 🌐 raas.ro/the-2026-raa...

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The 2026 RAAS – Fulbright Conference – Call for Papers – The Romanian Association for American Studies, Romania

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Dr Janice Deitner @janiceflux.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Got back from the annual @popmec.bsky.social conference yesterday. Recovering today. Such an inspiring experience, and I had many exciting conversations. Thank you Anna, Laura, and the whole conference team! I also wholeheartedly recommend this organization to any Americanists out there.

The program for the "Frontiers and Un/Belongings in US American Culture" Conference. The cover is gray with many cracks like in glass or ice moving out from the center

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Project Hope 🍃 @recaphope.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🌟Members of our project joined the PopMec conference Frontiers and Un/Belongings in US American Culture (Univ. of Valladolid) yesterday. At the panel “Narratives of Hope,” they discussed belonging, identity, and hope in the Capitalocene—an inspiring exchange! @popmec.bsky.social

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

We closed today our annual in-person conference after two and a half days of great panels and discussion. We thank our participants for contributing to create a space of (academic) belonging! PS please remind to plant our identifier 😁

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SAAS Young Scholars @saas-yscholars.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

📢😍We're excited to share the #CFP for the 2026 Félix Martín Doctoral Seminar - a welcoming space for PhD candidates to share their work among peers! 📅March 12-13, 2026 📩Please send your proposals by December 15➡️ saasyoungscholars@gmail.com 💻+ info: shorturl.at/TgfZO Share widely and stay tuned!!

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

📢 34th Conference on British and American Studies: “Reconfiguring Borders and Boundaries in/through the Lens of Literature, Language and Culture." 📍 May 14-16, 2026. 📅 West University of Timișoara, Romania. lift.uvt.ro/event/34th-conference-on-british-and-american-studies14-16-may-2026/

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34th Conference on British and American Studies14-16 May, 2026 - Facultatea de Litere, Istorie, Filosofie și Teologie

The English Department of the Faculty of Letters, University of Timişoara, is pleased to announce its 34th international conference on British and American Studies, which will be held on April […]

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

📢 #CFP “The Blood is the Life!”: Narratives of Illness, Gender and Identity in Vampire Fiction Seminar. 📍 University of Valencia, Spain. 📅 April 16-17, 2026. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

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Blood is the Life Vampire Seminar.pdf

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AM_Marini @annamartamarini.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

We closed our virtual conference with the keynote roundtable "Making It Online: Affinities and Aesthetics of Digital Subcultures" kindly organized and led by @kmsweeneyromero.bsky.social.. such a great way to round off our event, showcasing great work done by ECRs!

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AM_Marini @annamartamarini.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Yesterday we had a great first day of virtual conference and it was such a pleasure to have Shellie McMurdo as a keynote on how witnessing and identity work in found footage horror!

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

We're so excited to have the amazing Joanna Bourke (@joannabourke.bsky.social) as keynote at our in-person conference! The call for abstracts is open until JULY 14 ➡️ www.popmec.com/frontiers-20...

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Happy to announce that our in-person conference will include a roundtable titled "Narratives of Hope: Challenges of Belonging in US Culture in the Age of the Capitalocene" by the research group @recaphope.bsky.social! The call for abstracts is open until JULY 14 ➡️ www.popmec.com/frontiers-20...

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

📣 DEADLINE EXTENDED! You can send us your proposals for the virtual conference until JULY 21 🗓️ Digital Projections and Screened Identities in US American Culture | Virtual Conference on September 4–5, 2025 Find all the details at www.popmec.com/virtual-2025/

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

📣 DEADLINE EXTENDED! You can send us your proposals for the in-person conference until JULY 14 🗓️

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

#CFP Friendly reminder that the CFP for our in-person conference "Frontiers and Un/Belongings in US American Culture" will close soon! ✍️ 📆 Deadline: the 30th of June, 2025. We are looking forward to seeing you at Universidad de Valladolid (Spain) in November! ➡️ www.popmec.com/frontiers-20...

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

📢 The Northeast Popular Culture Association will hold its annual conference virtually from the 9th to the 11th of October. 📆 Deadline: the 15th of July, 2025. ➡️ www.northeastpca.org/call-for-pap...

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

#CFP Special issue on Edith Wharton and Popular Culture in Edith Wharton Review 📚 🗓️ Deadline: the 10th of September, 2025. ➡️https://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_EWR.html?srsltid=AfmBOooUy4JBjN6BftkqXSLVcAC8kyQk0fsDpZObiIhVBsD6k77nJinW

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

POPMEC CFP 📣 We’re happy to share the call for our 2025 in-person conference Frontiers and Un/Belongings in US American Culture! Universidad de Valladolid (Spain) | November 24–26, 2025 🗓️ deadline for abstracts: June 30, 2025 ➡️ www.popmec.com/frontiers-20...

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

#CFP: The conference "Political Violence and Popular Culture" will take place in Lisbon on the 20th and 21st of November. 📍The Centre for International Studies, University Institute of Lisbon. 🗓️ Deadline for abstracts: the 15th of May, 2025. cei.iscte-iul.pt/2025/03/call...

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Call for Papers | Popular Culture and World Politics v 16 - CEI-Iscte

Political Violence and Popular Culture Lisbon, 20-21 November 2025 – Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon The Centre for International Studies (CEI-Iscte) at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon i...

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🚨 Just 2 weeks left! 🚨 Disney fans & scholars: Don’t miss your chance to be part of "The Magic Kingdom: The Impact of Disney on Popular Culture" FREE online conference 24–25 Jul25 with International Journal of Disney Studies. Submit abstract by 30 April - tinyurl.com/22v65p67 🏰✨ CFP attached

Call for papers for the Disney conference. Email us at popcrn@une.edu.au to receive an emailed copy

The Magical Kingdom: The Impact of Disney in Popular Culture
The Popular Culture Research Network – PopCRN – Australia’s leading popular culture research network

Call for papers The Magical Kingdom: The Impact of Disney in Popular Culture conference, hosted by the Popular Culture Research Network (PopCRN), free and online. To be held on 24-25 July 2025.
Call for Papers Special Edition Journal for The International Journal of Disney Studies, which examines the Walt Disney Company, an international media conglomerate that impacts our global culture. This international, peer-reviewed journal draws from a variety of academic and industrial lenses, perspectives, methods and fields, while providing a space for scholars to present new research, review current research and comment on wider Disney commodities. See Intellect Books | International Journal of Disney Studies.
Scholarship on Disney reveals the ways social, cultural, political, economic, gendered, and indigenous representations posit a world far removed from social realities. However, it is entertainment, so does this forgive the discursive and hegemonic representations, frames and narrative evidenced in Disney.
This conference and journal edition seeks scholars interested in examining the ways that Disney himself, the Disney corporation, and Disney content has both shaped meanings around issues of nationhood, the body, philosophy, culture, sexuality, diversity, inclusiveness, historical memory, capitalism, workplace relations, aspiration, imperialism, colonisation, identity, commodification, mental health, aspirations and notions of family and belonging as well as other critical investigations of Disney in popular contexts.
Some of the ways we can interrogate the impact of Disney on popular culture and our social lives may include, but is not limited to, the following:

Call for papers for the Disney conference. Email us at popcrn@une.edu.au to receive an emailed copy

• “So this is love. So this is what makes life divine.” Cinderella. Disney and expectations of romance
• “Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind.” Lilo & Stitch. Disney representations of family
• “I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.” Walt Disney. The early history of Disney
• "There's nobody like him, anywhere at all." Snow White. Disney and gender norms
• “In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun.” Mary Poppins. Disney and capitalism
• “Think happy thoughts!” Peter Pan. Disney and mental health
• “I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.” Walt Disney and celebrity
• "You've got a friend in me." Toy Story. Frames of friendship in Disney
• “Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.” Walt Disney. The Philosophy of Disney
• “The past can hurt, but the way I see it you can either run from it or learn from it.” Rafiki, The Lion King. Disney and history
• “You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.” Walt Disney. Adult Disney fandoms
• "The very things that hold you down are going to lift you." Timothy Mouse, Dumbo. Psuedo psychology in Disney
• "Thou sword of truth fly swift and sure. That evil die and good endure!" Flora, Sleeping Beauty. Representations of good and evil in Disney
• “Laughter is America's most important export.” Walt Disney. Exporting American exceptionalism
• “I want much more than this provincial life.” Belle, Beauty and the Beast. Aspiration and class in Disney

Call for papers for the Disney conference. Email us at popcrn@une.edu.au to receive an emailed copy

• “Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.” Walt Disney. Animation and mass consumption
• “I am not a prize to be won.” Aladdin. Commodification in Disney
• “I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.” Walt Disney and his relationships
• “For a true hero isn’t measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.” Hercules. Disney’s heroes
• “Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance.” “The Lion King”. Nature and the environment in Disney
Conference: please submit abstracts (200 words) and author details by 1 April 2025. Notification of abstract acceptance is 1 May 2025.
Registration is free. The conference is welcoming of early career researchers, postgraduates.
Journal: please submit by 30th September 2025. Submissions can be original scholarly articles (6-8000 words), reviews (1000 words), or original commentaries (2-3000 words). For more information on what is required for each type of paper, please go here - https://www.intellectbooks.com/ijds
To submit or register, please use the links below
• Submit your conference papers here: https://unesurveys.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8jjzaWnS732QsFE
• Submit your conference papers here: https://unesurveys.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1FBqwXuomrgKKx0
• Register to attend here: https://unesurveys.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7TGWUYZidtlxVLU
In The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Disney and social judgement
• "The only way to get what you want in this world is through hard work." Tiana. Disney and work ethic
• “Hakuna Matata! It means no worries for the rest of your days.” The Lion King. Disney linguistics
• "You speak of justice, yet you are cruel to those most in need of your help." Esmeralda. Representations of justice and la…

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CFP 🍿🍎🍰 Delicious, Nutritious & Fictitious: Food in Popular Culture 🎥📚 📝 Special Issue: Popular Culture Review 📷 👩‍💻 Serve up your insights at this 🍴 Free Online Conference! 🍽️ Serve up your insights: tinyurl.com/mrxeys35 🔍 #FoodStudies #PopCulture #CallForPapers @CFP_Bot

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

📢 #CFP for the thematic dossier "Native American Visibility and Representations in Contemporary USA: Between Cultural Belonging and Activism" in REDEN. ✒️ Editor: María Elena Serrano (@esm-teacher.bsky.social). 🗓️ Deadline: the 15th of October, 2025. erevistas.publicaciones.uah.es/ojs/index.ph...

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CFP | Native American Visibility and Representations in Contemporary USA: Between Cultural Belonging and Activism | REDEN. Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos

Editor: María Elena Serrano Moya (Universidad de Alcalá)

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

📢 CFA: Special issue on Young children’s perspectives on (multispecies) death and dying. 🗓️ Submission deadline: the 15th of May, 2025. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

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Children & Society (Call for Abstracts) Young children’s perspectives on (multispecies) death and dying

Submission deadline: Thursday, 15 May 2025

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PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies @popmec.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

📢Call for Papers: The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture. International Network of Nineteen-Fifties Culture (INNC) 3rd Annual Symposium. 🗓️ Date: the 19th of September, 2025. 📝 Deadline for submitting abstracts: the 30th of June, 2025. www.sol.lu.se/engelska/innc

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

If you want to hang with some fantastic American Studies scholars (and generally awesome people), we will be accepting abstracts for the IAAS annual conference (April 24-26) until tomorrow evening. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/...

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British Association for American Studies @officialbaas.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The Canadian Review of American Studies is actively seeking submissions from scholars in various disciplines on topics related to US literature, culture, history, & more. Essays from graduate students are welcome & Book reviews are also desired. How to submit:

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General call for papers - British Association for American Studies

The Canadian Review of American Studies is actively seeking submissions from scholars in various disciplines on topics related to American literature, culture, history, and more.

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