Current Issue

Available now: American Quarterly September 2011, Volume 63, Issue 3. In this issue, authors use visual, performance, literary, and media archives and analyses to consider the development and relevance of identity to the nation-state form, as well as how these social and political categories exceed nation-state framing. Also, editor Sarah Banet-Weiser offers a tribute to Dr. Clyde Woods, guest editor of the 2009 special issue In the Wake of Katrina: New Paradigms and Social Visions, who passed away in 2011.

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The September 2011 special issue allowed us to develop Beyond the Page, an interactive section features multimedia related to the articles in the journal. Add to you appreciation of the Sound Clash issue with this new feature.

See the Call for Papers for the 2013 Special Issue on Speciesism, Racism, Sexism.

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. The first article up for discussion is “Hire Ed! Deconstructing the Crises in Academe” by Gregory Jay from the Volume 63, Issue 1 (March 2011) issue. Michael Bérubé of Penn State University has submitted the response. Read the response and explore the other opportunities to share in the conversation by adding your own commentary.