Special Issue

Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies

The September 2011 Special Issue, edited by Kara Keeling and Josh Kun is now available to American Studies Association members and will be published as a book in the coming months. View the table of contents.

Each September, the American Quarterly team assembles an interdisciplinary collection of pieces centered on a common theme in order to produce a special issue of topical, current interest. Each special issue is edited by a guest editor in collaboration with the AQ editors and the AQ Managing Board. It is comprised of a combination of essays that are solicited by the editors, and essays that are submitted to a call for papers. Proposals are reviewed by the AQ Board, and the submission process is subject to a peer-review process.

Click here for submission guidelines for future special issues.

Past Special Issues

Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies, edited by Paul Lai and Lindsey Claire Smith (September 2010)

In the Wake of Katrina: New Paradigms and Social Visions, edited by Clyde Woods (September 2009)

Nation and Migration: Past and Future, edited by David G. Gutiérrez and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (September 2008)

Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United States, edited by R. Marie Griffith and Melani McAlister (September 2007)

Rewiring the “Nation”: The Place of Technology in American Studies, edited by Carolyn de la Peña and Siva Vaidhyanathan (September 2006)

Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures, edited by Raúl Homero Villa and George J. Sánchez (September 2005)