Current Issue

Available now: American Quarterly March 2013, Volume 65, Issue 1. This issue of American Quarterly includes engaging and insightful essays that cover a range of important topics for American studies scholars, including issues of creative production and representation in photography and art, the uses of sexuality in labor organizing, postwar cultural memory, and an essay about the state of the field of American studies. The Beyond the Page section features supplementary content from a timely and important forum on “Visual Culture and the War on Terror,” edited by Matt Delmont.

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The Call for Papers for the 2014 Special Issue: Las Américas Quarterlyis now available.

A new "Interact" discussion is now available focused on the "Currents" section from the June 2012 issue. Please come and Join the Conversation.

An article from the September 2010 special issue of the journal recently won an award.

The journal has updated its Author Guidelines to introduce an online submission system.

Join the Conversation

American Quarterly is dedicated to being a forum for intellectual exchange among American studies scholars. The re-designed website creates new opportunities for scholars to connect outside of the printed journal. Good scholarship is only worthwhile if it is shared. Interdisciplinary scholarship in American studies hinges on communication between its scholars, and as the foremost journal of its kind, American Quarterly is at the center of this dialogue.

The new Interact section includes:

• Teaching tools for using articles in the classroom
• "AQ Then and Now," which compares and contrasts articles on a similar topic or object of study from different journal issues. Our first set of articles includes Clyde Woods’s “Katrina World: Blues, Bourbon, and the Return to the Source” with Eric Tang’s “A Gulf Unites Us: The Vietnamese Americans of Black New Orleans East.”
• Reader commentary on a recent American Quarterly article to allow further engagement of published works.