AMERICAN STUDIES IN EUROPE

Newsletter l Issue No.53 l October 2004 l ISSN 1359-4923

Dear Colleagues,

In This Issue In late August, in Paris, the new Address of the President 1 team of EAAS officers began work EAAS Board Members 3 with the help of outgoing President Josef Jařab and outgoing Treasurer EAAS Conference 2006 4 Hans Bak; and my first words will EAAS Travel Grants 5 be words of thanks for the work they EAAS on the Web 5 have so generously done, and will continue to do for our Association. The American Studies Network 6 Constituent Associations 7 What remarks, suggestions and pro- posals from the Board and members Conference Reports 13 of EAAS had been gathered in the Calls For Papers 15 interim period began to be examined and acted upon. My Calls For Contributors 19 second wave of sincere thanks goes out to those who took time to share their views with us. Announcements 20 Recent Publications by Members 22 EAAS has changed quite a bit since its foundation half a cen- tury ago. From the respectable grouping of a few eminent, mutually co-opted scholars, to a federation of 20 national and joint-national associations with democratic structures, it has changed size, purposes, paradigms, ambitions, grown Website: from a handful of members to nearly 4800. Built over time to http://www.eaas.info answer growing needs, it has organized and accompanied the emergence of European viewpoints on the common object of our work ––the realities and culture of the United States––, favored the expression of multiple angles and all critical ap- proaches, rid itself of ideological and personal agendas, worked steadfastly at the enlargement and enrichment of Webmaster: viewpoints as it integrated new associations, particularly Hans-Jürgen Grabbe from Central and Eastern Europe. It intends to keep doing so Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, and devote what volunteer energies and too meager financial means it has ––we shall have to work on this too!–– to the Martin-Luther-Universität promotion of the work and reflections of European scholars Halle-Wittenberg studying the United States, to the harmonious cooperation of E-mail: [email protected] all European associations.

Our past is rich: its memory shall be preserved in an archive available to scholars at the University of Halle-Wittenberg Editor: where available documents accumulated over the years will, from now on, be gathered. Let me salute here the initiative Gülriz Büken and work of Walter Hoelbling, the energy of Hans-Jürgen Department of History, Grabbe, the good will of Halle-Wittenberg authorities. Bilkent University, Ankara E-mail: [email protected] Our present is rich: new generations of younger scholars need to be helped in all ways possible. Our travel and research EAAS

Call For Donations: EAAS Archives To All Members of EAAS

During their meeting in Paris in late August, the officers of the European Association for American Studies decided to found an Archive to collect documents, memorabilia etc. relevant to our history. Our new Treasurer, Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, secured office space and the professional services of a librarian in Wittenberg, Germany. We are asking our former officers, board members past and present, and, last but not least, everybody engaged in the study of the United States to send, what relevant items they would be kind enough to part with, to the address below:

Zentrum für USA-Studien Stiftung Leucorea, EAAS-Archiv attn. Ms. Angelika Krieser Collegienstr. 62 06886 Lutherstadt Wittenberg Germany grants program is working well and will develop as Our 2006 conference on “Conformism, Non-con- our means increase. Networking among our younger formism and Anti-conformism in the Culture of the colleagues and between generations must be favored, United States” should be one occasion for such re- contacts improved and facilitated. Initiatives will be flections. Plans are being considered to facilitate Eu- taken to that effect. ropean expression, suggestions prepared to multiply and enrich the opportunities for working together, to Our future must be richer still. Evolutions are rejuvenate, little by little, as we struggle to unearth necessary, dictated by a changed environment. new material means, the ways of our profession. Europe is coming into its own again. Educational structures are gradually getting harmonized, uni- fied. We must encourage the development of Having been entrusted with the presidency of our specific European angles on our subject matter, be Association, I cannot help recalling how much it aware always, and critical if necessary, as we collec- shaped my professional life, how it widened the tively and individually see fit, of directions taken by circle of my friendships beyond the imagination of a American Studies in the United States, contribute provincial youth, steadily chipped at my inherited cer- our own specific views, in all their variety, to a field tainties and generated work unthinkable had EAAS that de facto concerns the whole world and requires not existed. Giving EAAS my next four years is multiple viewpoints, lest its study ossify or become small repayment of that debt. My dearest wish is that catechistic. We must be wary of routine imitations, our younger colleagues will find even more in this bank on ever-renewed intellectual resources, com- precious community of scholars, that they will take bat the institutionalization and predictability of aca- advantage of every human and intellectual connec- demic discourse, the temptation of knee-jerk theo- tion it may offer, that their suggestions and contribu- retical duplication and psittacism that make sure tions will help make the work and life of European we remain unheard, favor the new, re-invent our Americanists ever more pleasant and rewarding. The tasks, renovate our methods, discover or engineer Officers and the Board of EAAS will spare no effort new modes of communication between ourselves, promote cooperation and intellectual dialogue in to make this possible. Their most sincere hope is that all manners possible. Local initiatives under the the EAAS membership at large shall not either. aegis of EAAS should be considered, much like the symposium that generated the recent European Warm greetings to all. issue of the French Journal of American Studies or the Regional Conference organized this October in Marc Chénetier Łodz by Agnieszka Salska. September 2004, Paris

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EAAS BOARD MEMBERS

OFFICERS: Michel Granger, Université Lyon II - Louis Lumière, 6 Avenue Leclerc, 69007 Lyon, France Fax: +33 4 7280 9452 President: Marc Chénetier, Université de Paris VII, Institut E-Mail: [email protected] Charles V, 10 Rue Charles V, 75004 Paris, France Phone: +33 1 4478 3414 Fax: +33 1 4478 3473 Martin Heusser, Englisches Seminar, Universität Zürich, E-mail: [email protected] Plattenstrasse 47, 8032 Zürich, Switzerland Phone: +41 1 634 3551 Fax: +41 1 634 4908 Vice President: Gülriz Büken, Department of History, Bilkent E-mail: [email protected] University, 06533 Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey Phone: +90 312 290 2341 Fax: +90 312 290 2820 E-mail: [email protected] Sarolta Marinovich-Resch, Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged, Hungary, Egyetem u.2, Szeged, Treasurer: Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, Institut für Anglistik und 6726, Hungary. Amerikanistik, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Phone: +36 62 544 260 Fax: +36 62 544 259 06099 Halle, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +49 345 552 3520 Fax: +49 345 552 7272 E-Mail: [email protected] Rodica Mihaila, Director, Center for American Studies, 7-11 Secretary General: Ole O. Moen, Department of British and Pitar Mos Street, Bucharest I, Romania American Studies, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1003 Blindern, Phone: +40 21 211 18 20 0315 Oslo, Norway E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +47 2285 6972 Fax: +47 2285 6804 E-mail: [email protected] Savas Patsalidis, Aristotle University, Department of American Studies, School of Philosophy, Thessaloniki, 4124, Greece. BOARD MEMBERS: Phone: +30 2310 997 461 Fax: +30 2310 947 432 E-mail: [email protected] Marcel Arbeit, Dept. of English and American Studies, Palackŷ University, Křížkovského 10, 771 47 Olomouc, Czech Republic Phone: +420 68 563 3104 Fax: +420 68 563 3111 Alain Piette, Ecole d’Interprètes Internationaux, de l’Université E-mail: [email protected] de Mons-Hainaut, Avenue deu Champ de Mars, 17, 7000 Mons, Belgium Carlos Azevedo, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras, Phone: +32 65 373 600 Fax: +32 65 373 622 Instituto de Estudos Norte-Americanos, Via Panorâmica, s/n, E-mail: [email protected] 4150-564 Porto, Portugal Phone: +351 22 607 7183 Fax: +351 22 607 7153 Yuri V. Stulov, American Studies Center, European Humanities E-mail: [email protected] University, 3 P.Brovki St., Minsk 220000, Belarus Tiziano Bonazzi, School of Political Sciences, University of Phone: +375 17 232 7036 Fax: +375 17 2315062 Bologna, Strada Maggiore 45, 40125 Bologna, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +39 051 209 2501 Fax: +39 051 239 548 E-mail: [email protected] Tatiana Venediktova, MSU, Department of Philology, rm.970 41, Leninsky prosp., Moscow 117334, Russia Jerzy Durczak, Department of American Literature and E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Culture, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Pl. M. Curie Sklodowskiej 4, 20-031 Lublin, Poland Jaap Verheul, History Department, Utrecht University, Kromme Phone: +48 81 5339 689 Fax: +48 81 537 5279 Nieuwegracht 66, 3512 HL Utrecht, The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +31 30 253 6034 Fax: +31 30 253 639 William Anthony(Tony) Emmerson, School of History and E-Mail: [email protected] International Affairs, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, BT37 0QB, Jenel Virden, American Studies, University of Hull, Hull HU6 United Kingdom 7RX, United Kingdom Phone: +44 28 9036 8186 Fax: +44 28 9036 6824 Phone: +44 1482 465 303 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Pere Gallardo-Torrano, Department of English & German Studies, Rovira i Virgili University, Pl. Imperial Tárraco 1, Reinhold Wagnleitner, Department of History, University of 43005 Tarragona, Spain Salzburg, Rudolfskai 42, 5020 Salzburg, Austria Phone: +34 977 558 568 Fax: +34-977 559 5 97 Phone: +43 662 8044 4733 Fax: +43 662 8044 413 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]

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2006 BIENNIAL EAAS CONFERENCE “Conformism, Non-conformism and Anti-conformism in the Culture of the United States”

The subject proposed to our study and meditation for the 2006 conference will accommodate the work of scholars in all specialties, concentrating on literature, the arts, history, religion, politics, and even linguistic divergences.

Guidelines for EAAS Workshops ONE of their workshop presentations and recom- mending it for publication in the EAAS conference 1. A workshop may be chaired either by one per- volume. Chairs are also encouraged to produce son, or, preferably, by two persons from different individual volumes based on their workshop pa- countries. No-one may (co-)chair a workshop at two pers. Please note, though, that in compliance with consecutive EAAS conferences. a unanimous decision of the EAAS Board at the 2. Workshop sessions are approximately two hours. 1998 Lisbon conference, EAAS subsidies for such 3. Speakers are selected by the workshop chairs from volumes are NO longer available. those colleagues responding to the “Call for Papers” 11. Chairs will be asked to present a post-confer- to be published in the May 2005 issue of ASE. The ence report to be published in American Studies required number of speakers per session is four; the in Europe (ASE); it may therefore be useful to take maximum number is eight (two sessions). notes during the sessions. The report of about 200- Please Note: 250 words should give readers of the ASE an idea of * Of the speakers in any workshop, not more than the major arguments of papers and of conclusions two may come from the same country. reached in the workshop. * Speakers must be members of their National As- 12. If special technical equipment (projectors screens, sociation for American Studies if there exists one in their home country. Speakers from Canada, Israel, audio-visual devices, computers) is needed in a Japan, and the USA must be members of their re- workshop, please inform the EAAS Secretary Gen- spective American Studies Associations. eral at your earliest convenience. * No speaker can present more than one paper at the 13. Please address all correspondence concerning conference. workshop matters to the EAAS Secretary General 4. Papers should be presented rather than read; (address below), who will consult with other Board chairs are encouraged to suggest this to their con- members and/or the local organizers if necessary. tributors. 14. Workshop chairs should make copies of these 5. The maximum presentation time for papers is 20 Guidelines available to their speakers. minutes; chairs must keep their speakers within that 15. A meeting of workshop chairs with the EAAS time frame. The overall structure of the workshop Secretary General will be scheduled on the first is the responsibility of chairs; chairs MUST comply afternoon of the conference to discuss last-minute with these rules in order to: arrangements. 1) allot each paper the same amount of time 2) allow sufficient time for discussion Important Deadlines The overall structure of the workshop is the respon- sibility of chairs. January 31, 2005: Deadline for submission of pro- 6. Proposals for workshop papers, together with posals and one-page abstracts for parallel lectures abstracts (150-200 words) must reach the workshop and workshop sessions. chair/s by September 1, 2005. Chairs are expected Please do NOT submit proposals for individual work- to send out acknowledgments of receipt for propos- shop papers at this time. These are to be sent to se- als and to inform proponents as early as possible lected workshop chairs who will be announced in the whether their papers have been accepted. May 2005 issue of ASE. 7. Chairs are encouraged to send out photocopies or electronic versions of abstracts/papers to all speak- September 15, 2005: Deadline for sending the tenta- ers in their workshop prior to the conference. tive list of speakers and titles to be included in the 8. Workshop chairs should shortly introduce the October 2005 issue of ASE. topic and the speakers at the beginning of the first December 1, 2005: Deadline for submitting FINAL session. At the end of the last session, chairs might titles of papers and names and addresses of want to sum up the conclusions of the presentations speakers. and discussions. January 10, 2006: Deadline for information to be in- 9. Speakers must present their papers in person; they cluded in the 2006 biennial conference program. are also expected to be present at all sessions of their workshop. * Please send all information via e-mail to the EAAS 10. Chairs are responsible for selecting and editing Secretary General, Ole O. Moen at [email protected]

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EAAS Travel Grants

The European Association for American Studies is The Intra-European Grants are also available for pleased to announce the continuation of EAAS travel institutional research projects involving up to three grants for postgraduate students in the Humanities and scholars (M.A. or Ph.D.) based on the cooperation Social Sciences who are registered for a higher research between two American Studies institutes in Eastern degree at any European university. Two kinds of grants and Western Europe. In this case, applications may be are available: the Transatlantic Grant and the Intra-Eu- made collectively; each (sub)-project, however, will ropean Grant. It is expected that between four and six also be evaluated individually. scholarships will be available each year. The maximum Applications must be made on the official form and single award granted may amount to $4000. should include written confirmation from the host institution that the researcher will have access to the The Transatlantic Grant will permit the holder to con- necessary resource materials, and a letter from the duct research, which illuminates some aspect of the student’s academic supervisor. Applicants will be re- relationship between the United States and Europe, or quired to supply a detailed estimate of the cost of their between the United States and a country or countries visit, including the cost of travel, subsistence, and in- within Europe in a designated university in the United cidentals. They should also state the minimum amount States. The term of the grant will be between three of money needed to make the trip possible. Applicants weeks (minimum) and eight weeks (maximum). Suc- are encouraged to seek supporting or matching fund- cessful applicants will receive a grant intended to cover ing wherever possible. return travel, living expenses, and a limited amount of travel within the United States where appropriate. Grant recipients will be responsible for making their Health insurance will also be provided. Only students own arrangements for travel and accommodation. Travel must be completed within twelve months of the registered for a Ph.D. are eligible to apply for the grantee being notified of the award. Grantees will be Transatlantic Grants. required to make a report to EAAS, normally within thirty days of returning from their research visit. The Intra-European Grant will allow the recipient to conduct research for a period of up to four weeks in an The application deadline for the current round is American Studies Center or university library in Eu- March 1, 2005. Application forms are available from rope. Graduate students who are registered either for the EAAS Board representatives of constituent as- a Ph.D. or a Master’s degree by research are eligible to sociations or can be downloaded from the EAAS web apply for the Intra-European Grants. site at www.eaas.info

EAAS on the Web

The EAAS Web Site provides information about the Americanists in Europe, such as research news, teach- European Association for American Studies —The ing projects, information about new internet resources, Articles, Officers and Board, Constituent Members. announcements of conferences, grants, fellowships, Information on American Studies and related fields job opportunities, calls for submissions for Books and in Europe can be found under different entries in the Journals and inquiries concerning American Studies in navigation menu: upcoming conferences and the activi- Europe in general. Members are encouraged to sub- ties of member organizations under Conferences and scribe —if they are not already subscribers— to the Events and ASE Newsletter which is gone electronic EAAS Mailing List to follow up with recent academic as of May 2004, No:52; guidelines for submission and activities conducted in Europe and thus contribute reviews of recent publications by members under Book to maintain a dynamic interaction among the Euro- Reviews. The link to European Journals is the recent pean Americanists. The EAAS-L is moderated by Jaap feature added to the web site, which is hoped to be both Verheul, Utrecht University, the Netherlands (e-mail: valuable and practical for widening the peripheries of [email protected]). intellectual exchange among European Americanists. To contribute to EAAS-L, please send your messages to: [email protected]. EAAS Mailing List is our free EAAS-L distribution To see the collection of prior postings to EAASL, you list that disseminates to its subscribers, information can visit EAAS-L Archives which is only available to pertaining to American Studies in Europe. Thus, it the list members. provides a venue for member associations as well as To subscribe to EAAS-L on line, please fill out the individual subscribers to post and, at the same time, form available at http://mailman.let.uu.nl/mailman/ to have access to information that might be useful to listinfo/eaas-l

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The American Studies Network

The AMERICAN STUDIES NETWORK (ASN) is a group American Studies. The jury for that biennial prize, presented at of European centers involved in American Studies. The the EAAS conferences, is comprised of representatives from the idea of a network of centers arose during the EUROPEAN EAAS and the ASN. The deadline for submitting books for this ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES (EAAS) meeting prize is announced in the EAAS newsletter in the year preced- in London in April, 1990. The ASN was founded in November, ing the EAAS conference. Another specific project of the ASN 1990 in Berlin at a meeting of interested directors of American is the establishment of a database and directory of all those Studies centers. The initial group of eight members has expand- European scholars working on American Studies. ed to include 20 members in West, East and Central Europe. Membership in ASN The ASN is a group of centers or institutions with similar char- acteristics. All members take an interdisciplinary approach to The Directors of the AMERICAN STUDIES NETWORK American Studies; are independent organizations with some of member centers meet every year to discuss the joint projects their own sources of funding, not exclusively linked to a univer- and accept new members. The presidency of the ASN rotates sity; have some research facilities; and are committed to a role among the current directors. In order to become a member, an of public service to the community at large. Some have teaching institution should write and apply to the current president. The roles and others do not, but do sponsor academic and cultural prospective institution should include a dossier with informa- activities. ASN works in close association with the EAAS. Its tion on itself. Any institution that wishes to become a member goals are those of promoting the study of the United States by should comply with the following four criteria: close cooperation of the different institutions interested in this * To be an independent organization with some kind of external area of study. The ASN exists to provide mutual support for all funding, although it may be linked to another institution such the centers involved, help channel the flow of information on as a university or library resources among the members and the community, establish * To be of an interdisciplinary nature joint projects that will increase cooperation and productivity * To have research facilities and carry out research and thus integrate the European studies of America. The ASN * To be of public service to the community by, for example, is willing to act as an advisory group to encourage the develop- providing a public library or research archive ment of American Studies, particularly in Eastern and Central Europe. CURRENT PRESIDENT – Saturnino Aguardo (2003-2005) Institute for North American Studies, One of the key activities of the ASN is the networking of Universidad de Alcala, Spain resources and information such as the availability of visiting E-mail: [email protected] scholars for lecturing at the different institutions. Through different means of communication, the ASN hopes to make VICE PRESIDENT AND TREASURER – Chris Bailey available to members the library resources of each center and The David Bruce Center for American Studies, establish an interlibrary loan. Another goal is that of promoting Keele University, United Kingdom the exchange of scholars and students of the different centers. E-mail: [email protected] One of the specific projects that the ASN has already begun is the establishment of the AMERICAN STUDIES NETWORK HONORARY PRESIDENT – Chris Bigbsy BOOK PRIZE: a prize of 1,000 Euro for a remarkable book Arthur Miller Center for American Studies, United Kingdom published in English by a European scholar on any aspect of E-mail: [email protected] The American Studies Network Members

Austria Center for U.S. Studies (Wittenberg) Italy Salzburg Seminar American Studies [email protected] Centro Studi Euro-Atlantici (Genoa) Center (Salzburg) http://www.zusas.uni-halle.de/ [email protected] mgecek©salzburgseminar.org http://www.dismec.unige.it/ceuro.htm http://www.salzburgseminar.org Amerika-Institut (Munich) http://www.uni-muenchen.de/conman/ Centro Studi Americani (Rome) index.cfm?path=4067 (English) [email protected] Belgium [email protected] Center for American Studies (Brussels) http://www.uni-muenchen.de/conman/ index.cfm?path=3034 (German) [email protected] [email protected] http://www.centrostudiamericani.org http://www.kbr.be/cas/ Center for North American Studies (Frankfurt) Netherlands American Studies Center (Mons-Hainaut) http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/zenaf/ Roosevelt Study Center (Middelburg) [email protected] [email protected]; [email protected] http://www.umh.ac.be/ASC/ Great Britain http://www.roosevelt.nl The David Bruce Centre for American Denmark Studies (Keele) Poland American Studies Center (Warsaw) Center for American Studies (Odense) [email protected] [email protected];[email protected]; Zbigniew.Le [email protected] http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Dbruce/ [email protected] [email protected] bruce.htm www.asc.uw.edu.pl www.sdu.dk/Hum/amstud/ Eccles Center for American Studies Spain France (London) Institute for North American Studies C.I.R.N.A. (Centre interdisciplinaire de [email protected] (Alcala) recherches nord-américaines) (Paris) http://www.bl.uk/ecclescentre [email protected]; [email protected] ; rosi.garciabarroso@ [email protected] Institute of United States Studies http://www.cicrp.jussieu.fr/PAGES/ uah.es (London) http://www.uah.es/iuen CharlesV.html [email protected]; [email protected] http://www.sas.ac.uk/iuss Sweden Germany The Swedish Institute for North American John F. Kennedy Institute (Berlin) Arthur Miller Center for American Studies Studies (Uppsala) http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jfki/ (Norwich) [email protected] index.html [email protected] http://www.sinas.uu.se

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Constituent Associations of EAAS n Austrian Association for American Phone: +352 4666 44216 Fax : +352 4666 44217. Studies AAAS E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://angam.ang.univie.ac.at/aaas Treasurer: Patricia Costa, Vesalius College, Plein- laan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium President: Klaus Rieser, Karl-Franzens-Universität Phone: +32 2 629 3946 Fax : +32 2 629 3637 Graz, Institut für Amerikanistik, Attemsgasse 25/II, E-mail: [email protected] A-8010 Graz, Austria Secretary: Maggie Nicholson, Commission for E-mail: [email protected] Educational Exchange, Boulevard de l’Empereur 4, Vice President: Hanna Wallinger, Universität 1000 Brussels, Belgium Salzburg, Institute für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Phone: +32 2 519 5770 Fax: +32 2 519 5773 Akademiestrasse 24, A- 5020 Salzburg, Austria E-mail: [email protected] E-Mail: [email protected] Secretary: Elisabeth Kraus, Universität Graz, n British Association for American Institut für Amerikanistik, Attemsgasse 25/II 8010 Studies BAAS Graz, Austria Website: http://www.baas.ac.uk E-mail: [email protected] Treasurer: Michael Draxlbauer, Universität Wien, Chair: Simon Newman, Department of History, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Glasgow University, 2 University Gardens, Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8, 1090 Wien, Austria E-Mail: [email protected] Glasgow G12 8QC, Scotland, United Kingdom Phone: +44 141 330 3585 Fax: +44 141 330 5000 n Belarusan Association for American E-mail: [email protected] Studies BELAAS Secretary: Heidi McPherson, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Central Lancashire, President: Yuri V. Stulov, American Studies Preston PR1 2HE, United Kingdom Center, European Humanities University, 3 Phone:+44 1772 893022/893020 Fax: +44 1772 892924 P.Brovki St., Minsk 220000, Belarus E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +375 17 232 7036 Fax: +375 17 217 7596 Treasurer: Nick Selby, Department of English E-mail: [email protected] Literature, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 Vice Presidents: Tatiana Komarovskaya, 8QQ, Scotland, United Kingdom Belarusan State University Phone: +44 141 330 5296 Fax: +44 141 330 4601 Phone: +375 17 2848610. E-mail: [email protected] Natalia Simourova, Polotsk State University Phone: +375 214 559500 Fax: +375 214 554263 Activities: Secretary: Irina Ivleva, American Studies Center, BAAS is gearing up for its 50th anniversary confer- European Humanities University, 3 P.Brovki St., ence to be held at Cambridge University in April Minsk 220000, Belarus 2005. We hope to include several 50th anniversary Phone: +375 17 232 7036 celebrations within the conference as well as hosting Treasurer: Svetlana Kernozhitskaya, the EAAS Executive Board Meeting. Phone: +375 17 232 7036. Publications: n Belgian Luxembourg American Studies Association BLASA Journal of American Studies, ed. Prof. Jay Kleinberg Department of Politics, American Website: http://blasa.studentenweb.org Studies and History, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Mddx. UB8 3PH, United Kingdom President: William L. Chew III, Vesalius College, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +32 2629 2686 Fax: +32 2629 3637 E-mail: [email protected] n Czech and Slovak Association for Vice-President for Belgium: Bart Kerremans, American Studies CSAAS Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Van Evenstraat 2B, Website: http://colloquium.upol.cz B-3000 Leuven, Belgium Phone: +32 16/ Fax: +32 2428 9348 President: Marcel Arbeit, Department of E-mail: [email protected] English and American Studies, Palackŷ University, Vice-President for Luxembourg: Jean-Jacques Křížkovského 10, 771 47 Olomouc, Czech Republic Weber, Centre University, Avenue de la Fad(encerie Phone: +420 68 563 3104 Fax: +420 68 563 3111 162A, 1511 Luxembourg, Belgium E-mail: [email protected]

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Vice President: Alena Smiešková, Department of n French Association for American English and American Studies, University of Con- Studies CSAA stantin the Philosopher, Štefánikova 67, 949 01 Website: http://etudes.americaines.free.fr/ Nitra, Slovakia Phone: +421 87 775 4242 Fax: +420 68 563 3111 President: Catherine Collomp, Université Paris 7, E-mail: [email protected] 3 rue du Bois Joly, F-92000 Nanterre. Secretary: Michal Peprník, Palackŷ University, Phone & Fax: +33 1 47 25 26 56 Křížkovského 10, 771 47 Olomouc, Czech Republic E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +420 68 563 3113 Fax: +420 68 563 3111 Vice-Presidents: Christine Raguet-Bouvart, E-mail: [email protected] Université Paris 3, 5 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, Treasurer: Roman Trusnik, Department of F-75006 Paris. English and American Studies, Tomáš Ba’a Busi- Phone: +33 1 43 26 45 96 Fax: +33 1 43 54 25 13 ness Academy and VOŠE, nám. TGM 3669, 761 57 E-mail: [email protected] Zlín, Czech Republic Jacques Pothier, Université Versailles- Phone: +420 57 721 0897. Saint Quentin E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Secretary: Nathalie Dessens, University of Activities: Toulouse 2, 30 rue Peyrolières, F- 31000 Toulouse The 2004 Biennial conference of European Associ- Phone & Fax: +33 5 61 22 43 54 ation for American Studies was held for the first time E-mail: [email protected] in Prague in April and the Czech and Slovak Associ- Treasurer: Malie Montagutelli, Université Paris 3, ation for American Studies (henceforth as CSAAS) 3 rue Danville, F- 75014 Paris. had the honor of being the partner in organizing this Phone: +33 1 40 47 65 57 prestigious event. The CSAAS received two grants E-mail: [email protected] from the U.S. Embassy in Prague and was awarded a grant by the Czech Ministry of Education. n German Association for American Studies DGfA From August 29 to September 3, 2004 the CSAAS Website: http://www.dgfa.de co-organized the traditional Colloquium of Ameri- can Studies (a symposium) in Olomouc with the President: Alfred Hornung, Seminar für Englische Center for Comparative Cultural Studies at Palacky Philologie, Amerikanistische Abteilung, Johannes University. This year’s theme was “America—Home Gutenberg Universität, Jakob-Welder-Weg 18, of the Brave.” Eleven speakers from Europe and 55099 Mainz, Germany. the US together with more than thirty participants Phone: +49 6131 392 2146 explored the notions of home and courage, success and failure in original and thought-provoking ways. Fax: +49 6131 392 5577 Walter Hoelbling, Michal Peprnik, Michael Draxl- E-Mail: [email protected]. bauer, Irena Přibylová focused on Native Americans Vice-President: Christa Buschendorf, Institut für in literature. Others dealt with the broad range of England-und Amerikastudien, Johann Wolfgang topics from Irish immigration (Maurice Brick), Goethe Universität, Grüneburgplatz 1, 60629 Frederic Remington (Tom Clark), “successfully fail- Frankfurt am Main, Germany ing” American heroes such as Jay Gatsby and Kurt Phone: +49 69 798 32374/32550 Cobain (Bernd Herzogenrath), new beginnings Fax: +49 69 798 32375 of Richard Ford’s characters (Marcel Arbeit), to E-Mail: [email protected] Leonard Cohen (Phillipp Hoffmann), the semiotics of Executive Director: Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, Institut the fall of the Twin Towers (Aneta Karagiannnidou) für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Martin-Luther- and the F.B.I. strategies of infiltration and discredita- Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 06099 Halle, tion of Ku Klux Klan (John Drabble). The rich aca- Germany demic and cultural program as well as the beauty of the Phone: +49 345 552 3520 Fax: +49 345 552 7272 old town with a perfectly preserved historical center of E-Mail: [email protected] a medieval layout with buildings in Renaissance and Baroque style contributed to the success of the col- Publications: loquium. Amerikastudien/American Studies is the Journal edited for the German Association for American Stud- The 12th colloquium will take place in Olomouc in ies. The two recent issues published are: September 11-17, 2005. The theme is “Hero Wor- Constructing Identities: Culture, Politics, Economics, ship” in the United States. We welcome paper ed. Reinhard R. Doerries (Guest Editor). proposals by the end of January 2005. For further Amerikastudien/American Studies 48.3 (Fall 2003). information will be posted on the American Studies Neorealism: Between Innovation and Continuation, Colloquium web site: http://colloquium.upol.cz. ed. Thomas Claviez and Maria Moss (Guest Editors).

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Amerikastudien/American Studies 49.1 (Spring Chair: Ron Callan, Dept. of English, University 2004). College, Belfield, Dublin 4, Republic of Ireland Phone: +353 1 706 8323 Fax: +353 1 706 1174 n Hellenic Association for American E-mail: [email protected] Studies HELAAS Vice Chair: Lee Jenkins, University College Cork, Website: http://www.enl.auth.gr/helaas Cork, Republic of Ireland Phone: +353 21 490 2050 President: Savas Patsalidis, Aristotle University, E-mail: [email protected] Department of American Studies, School of Secretary: Tony Emmerson, School of History, Philosophy, Thessaloniki, GR 54124. Philosophy and Politics, University of Ulster, Shore Fax: +30 2310 94 74 32 Road, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, Northern Ire- E-mail: [email protected] land, BT37 0QB, United Kingdom Vice President: Elena Maragou, The American Phone: +44 28 9036 8186 Fax +44 28 9036 6824 College of Greece (DEREE), Gravias 6, Ag. E-mail: [email protected] Paraskevi, GR 15342. Treasurer: Susan Norton,, Dublin Institute of Phone: +30 210 97 63 685 Technology, Dublin, Republic of Ireland E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +353 1 402 4712 Secretary: Tatiani Rapatzikou, Aristotle E-mail: [email protected] University, Department of American Studies, School of Philososphy, Thessaloniki, GR 54124 n Italian Association for North American Fax: +30 2310 94 74 32 Studies AISNA Website: http://www.aisna.org/ E-mail: [email protected] Treasurer: Zoe Detsi-Diamandi, Aristotle President: Massimo Bacigalupo, Facoltà di Lingue University, e Letterature Straniere, Università di Genova, Department of American Studies, School of Piazza S. Sabina, 2, 16124 Genova, Italy Philosophy, Thessaloniki, GR 54124 Phone: +39 010 2099555 Fax: +39 010 2095855 Fax: +30 2310 94 74 32 E-mail:[email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Vice-Presidents: Raffaella Baritono, Dipartimento di Politica, Università di Bologna, Strada Maggiore n Hungarian Association for American 45, 40125 Bologna, Italy Studies HAAS Phone: +39 051 20925215 Fax: +39 051 239548 Website: http://primus.arts.u-szeged.hu/american/ E-mail:[email protected] haas/ Secretary: Stefano Rosso, Anglistica, Università di Bergamo, Piazza Vecchia, 8, 24129 Bergamo, Italy Co-Chairpersons: Jenö Bárdos,, University of Phone: +39 035 277 706 Fax: +39 035 277 708 Veszprém, Dept. of English and American Lit. and E-mail: [email protected] Lang., Egyetem u. 3, 8201 Veszprem, Hungary Treasurer: Gabriella Ferruggia, Facoltà di Lingue e Phone: +36 88423 242 Fax: +36 88422 845 Letterature Straniere, Università di Genova, Piazza E-mail: [email protected] S. Sabina, 2, 16124 Genova, Italy Eniko Bollobas, Dept. of American Studies, Eötvös Phone: +39 010 2095359 Fax: +39 010 2095855 Loránd University, Ajtósi Durer sor 19-22, 1146 E-mail: [email protected] Budapest, Hungary Tel/Fax: +361 -343-8760. Activities: E-mail: [email protected] New Website: The AISNA Website www.aisna.org Secretary General: Simon Zoltán, Dept. of Eng- has been renovated and offers links to societies and lish and American Studies, Kossuth Lajos Univer- libraries, recent issues of AISNA Newsletter and the sity, Pf. 73, 4010 Debrecen, Hungary full text of RSA Journal. Check the Calendar for Ital- Phone & Fax: +36 52 431 147 ian and international conferences and Membership Treasurer: András Tarnóc, Engl. and American applications Studies, Eszterházy Károly College, Egésségház u. 4, 3300 Eger, Hungary On June 15-30, 2004, the Centro Studi Euro Atlantici Phone: +36 36 520 400/3012 Fax. +36 36 520 448 of Università di Genova organized a symposium on E-mail: [email protected] “Ocean of Sounds. Migration, music, and races in the making of Euro-Atlantic Societies.” n Irish Association for American On June 18-19, 2004, the University of Urbino Studies IAAS hosted the Congress on “The Concept of Dignity in Website: http://www.ucd.ie/ire-amer/committee.htm Western Culture.”

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On October 7-9, 2004, The Conference on “The Recent issues of AISNA Newsletter can be down- City and the Sea from Liguria to the World Imperia” loaded from www.aisna.org. was held. The speakers were Chris Benfy, Christoph RSA/AISNA Journal: Issue #13, devoted to “Ameri- Irmscher, Andrew Taylor, David Myers, C.K. Stead, can Culture and the Theme of Destruction,” is pub- and others. lished by Otto of Turin, see www.otto.to.it. An issue On 11-13 November, 2004, The Conference titled devoted to “Poetry and History” will follow within “Networking Women: Subjects, Places, Links Europe- 2004. Every issue includes an unpublished text by an America. Towards a Re-writing of Cultural History, established American writer with an introduction. 1890-1950” was held in Florence. n Netherlands American Studies AISNA Meeting. The Annual AISNA Meeting will be Association NASA held on November 26, 2004, in Rome, at the Centro Website: http://www.let.uu.nl/nasa/ Studi Americani. There will be an academic program with lectures by American and Italian Scholars and President: Jaap Verheul, History Department, a business meeting to elect the new AISNA Board. Utrecht University, Kromme Nieuwegracht 66, 3512 Check www.aisna.org HL Utrecht, The Netherlands Phone: +31 30 253 6034 Fax: +31 30 253 6391 Recent Events: E-mail: [email protected]. Sergio Perosa, former EAAS and AISNA President, Secretary: Wil Verhoeven, English Department, was nominated Professor Emeritus of the University University of Groningen, P.O. Box 716, 9700 AS of Venice in November 2003. Biancamaria Tedeschini Groningen, The Netherlands Lalli, former AISNA President, was nominated Phone: +31 50 363 5838 Fax: +31 50 363 5821 E-mail: [email protected] Emeritus Professor of Università di Roma III in Treasurer: Joke Kardux, American Studies March 2004. Program, Leiden University, PO Box 9515, 2300 Alfredo Rizzardi, who was AISNA President in RA Leiden, The Netherlands 1981-1983, died in Pisa in July 2004. Alfredo was Phone: +31 71 527 2236 a distinguished presence in American and Canadian E-mail: [email protected] studies and will be remembered for his essays, his translations, and his generosity to young scholars. It n Nordic Association for American is a fitting homage that his pioneering translation of Studies NAAS Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos was reprinted in the first week of September for the poetry series of Corriere DAAS • Danish Association for American Studies della Sera. FASA • Finnish American Studies Association Simone Cinotto won the David Thelen Prize 2004 www.helsinki.fi/hum/renvall/pam/fasa/ from the Organization of American Historians for the IAAS • Icelandic Association for American Studies best essay in American history in a foreign language. ASANOR • American Studies Association of His essay “Leonard Covello, la Collezione Covello e Norway www.asanor.com la storia alimentare degli immigrati italiani di New SAAS • Swedish Association for American Studies York” (Quaderni Storici, 2, 2002) will be published www.engelska.uu.se/saas.html in English in The Journal of American History. President: Dag Blanck, University Lecturer and Nuova Corrente, the Genoa journal, celebrated Deputy Director of Center for Multiethnic its fiftieth anniversary with a special issue (#131, Research, Uppsala University, P.O. Box 514, 2003) in which various contributors remembered SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden the journal’s early history. The late Alfredo Rizzardi Phone: +46 18 47 71 99 Fax: +46 18 471 71 99 contributed an article about his editing the crucial E-mail: [email protected] “Pound Symposium” (#5-6, 1956). For this 1956 Member of Board from Norway: Per Winther, issue Elizabeth Bishop wrote her major poem “Visits Professor of American Studies Dept. of British and to St. Elizabeths.” The poem is reprinted in its early American Studies, University of Oslo, P-O- Box form with Rizzardi’s translation, and discussed in 1002 Blindern, NO-0315 Oslo, Norway an article by Francesco Rognoni. Nuova Corrente Phone: +47 22 85 69 73 Fax: +47 22 85 68 04 is unique in uniting theoretical and creative work of E-mail: [email protected] high quality. It is published by Tilgher-Genova. Member of Board from Sweden: Gunlög Fur, President SAAS, Associate Professor of English, Publications: School of Humanities, Växjö University, 351 95 AISNA Newsletter/American Studies in Italy Växjö, Sweden

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Phone: +46 0470 70 84 99 Fax: +46 0470 75 18 88 n Portuguese Association for E-mail: [email protected] Anglo-American Studies APEAA Member of Board from Denmark: Jody Pennington, Website: http://www.malhatlantica.pt/apeaa/ President DAAS, Associate Professor, Media and Culture Studies Department of English, University President: Rui Carvalho Homem of Aarhus, Room 428, Bldg. 465, Nobel Park, Jens Phone & Fax: + 351 22 6077183 Chr. Skous Vej 7, 8000 Aarhus C , Denmark E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +45 8942 6537 Fax: +45 8942 6540 Secretary: Maria de Fátima Vieira E-mail: [email protected] Phone & Fax: +351 22 6077183 Member of Board from Finnland: Jopi Nyman, E-mail: [email protected] President FASA, Associate Professor of American Treasurer: Maria Teresa Castilho. Literature, Dept. of Foreign Languages, University Phone & Fax: +351 22 6077183 of Joensuu, P.O. Box 111, FIN-80101 Joensuu E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +358 13 251 4331 Fax: +358 13 251 4211 Please address all correspondence to: E-mail: [email protected] Departamento de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, Member of Board from Iceland: Julian Meldon Faculdade de Letras - Universidade do Porto, d’Arcy, President of IAAS, Associate Professor in Via Panorâmica, s/n, 4150-564 Porto, Portugal English Literature, Department of English, E-mail: [email protected] University of Iceland, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland Phone: +354 525 4450 Fax: +354 525 4410 n Romanian Association for American E-mail: [email protected] Studies RAAS Website: http://www.american-studies.ro/raas.html Activities: The upcoming biennial conference of the Nordic As- President: Rodica Mihaila, Director, Center for sociation for American Studies, will be held at Vaxjö American Studies, 7-11 Pitar Mos Street, University on May 26-29, 2005. It is certainly open Bucharest I, Romania to all European Americanists as well. The internet Tel: +40 21 211 18 20 link is http://www.hum.vxu.se/forskn/konferens/ E-mail: [email protected] NAAS2005 Vice President: Ecaterina Popa, Faculty of Letters, n Polish Association for American Department of English, Babes-Bolyai University. 31 Studies PAAS Horia Street, 3400 Cluj-Napoca, Romania Website: http://klio.umcs.lublin.pl/~ptsazlka/ E-mail: [email protected] Secretary: Irina Grigorescu Pana, Faculty of President: Marek Wilczyński, Department of Foreign Languages, Department of English, American Literature, Adam Mickiewicz University, University of Bucharest, 7-13 Pitar Mos Street, Al. Niepodległości 4, 61-874 Poznan, Poland 70151 Bucharest, Romania Phone: +48 61 852 8820 Fax: +48 61 535 103 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Treasurer: Ioana Luca, Faculty of Foreign Vice-President: Jadwiga Maszewska, Department Languages, Department of English, University of of American Literature and Culture, University of Bucharest. 7-13 Pitar Mos Street, 70151 Bucharest, Łódz’, Al. Kos’ciuszki 65-514 Łódz’. Romania E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Secretary: Agnieszka Graff, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, Al. Niepodległości Activities: 22, 02-653 Warszawa On February 5-6, 2004, the RAAS co- organized, E-mail: [email protected] with the Fulbright Commission, the biennial Ameri- Treasurer: Marek Paryż, Institute of English can Studies conference entitled “Our America: Studies, University of Warsaw, NowyŚwiat 4, People, Places, Times”, which drew together scholars 00-497 Warszawa, Poland from numerous national and international centers. A E-mail: [email protected] significant activity to which RAAS members have de- voted time, energy and enthusiasm is the institution- Publications: alization of American Studies at undergraduate level, PAAS Newsletter, ed. Paweł Frelik, and we are proud to announce that “American Stud- Department of American Literature and Culture ies” is now on the national list of specializations. We UMCS Pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 4 20-031 Lublin herald this as an important event which announces a E-mail: [email protected] new boost in teaching American Studies in Romania.

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Publications: Phone: +34 941 29 94 21 Fax: +34 941 29 94 19 The Romanian Association for American Studies E-mail: [email protected] publishes annually the newsletter, American Studies in Romania. Art Director: Razvan Radulescu. Edi- n Swiss Association for North-American tor: Ilinca Anghelescu (e-mail: bookster@fastmail). Studies SANAS The May 2004 issue was distributed to the rest Website: http://www.sagw.ch/dt/mitglieder/outer. of the constituent Associations of EAAS; it is also asp?id=16 available on-line on the web site of the Romanian Association. President: Deborah Madsen, English Department, Faculté des lettres, University of Geneva, n Russian Society for American 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland Studies RSAS Phone: +41 22 379 7884 E-mail: [email protected] President: Yassen Zassoursky, Moscow, Secretary: Samuel Ludwig, Dept. of English, Mokhovaya ul. 20, Moscow University; Dept. of Unitobler, Länggass-Str. 49, 3000 Bern 9, Journalism Switzerland E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +41 31 631 375 FAX: +41 31 631 36 36 Vice Presidents: Tatyana Venediktova, 119 899 E-mail: [email protected] Moscow Vorobiovy Hills, Moscow University, 1st Treasurer: Christina Ljungberg Stücklin, Humanities Building, Dept. of Philology, rm. 970 Bergstrasse 29c, 6045 Meggen, Switzerland E-mail: [email protected] or Phone: +41 377 2717 Fax: +041 377 2735 [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Eugene Yazkov, 119 899 Moscow Vorobiovy Hills, Moscow University, 1st Humanites Building, Dept. n American Studies Association of of History, rm.690. Turkey ASAT E-mail:[email protected] Website: http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~asat Secretary: Larissa Mikhailova, Moscow State Uni- versity, Journalism Dept., 22, Olimpiisky prosp., President: Gülriz Büken, Bilkent University, apt. 43, 129110, Moscow, Russia Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social E-mail: [email protected] Sciences, Department of History, 06533 Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey n Spanish Association for English and Phone: +90 312 2902341 Fax: +90 312 2662820 American Studies AEDEAN E-Mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.aedean.org Vice-president: Engin Sezer, Bilkent University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Turkish President: Maria Teresa Turell, Department de Language and Literature, 06533 Bilkent, Filología Inglesa, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Ankara, Turkey Rambla, 30-32 08002 Barcelona Email: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +90 312 290-32-83 Secretary: Javier Pérez Guerra, Department de Secretary: Gülben Ulupınar, Deulcom Internation- Filología Inglesa, Francesa y Alemana, Facultad al, Ataturk Bulvari, No. 131, Bakanliklar, Ankara, de Humanidades, Universidad de Vigo, Apdo. 874, Turkey. 36200 Vigo, Spain Phone: 0555-363-86-21 Phone: +34 986 81 23 50 Fax: +34 986 81 23 80 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Treasurer: Gülriz Büken & Filiz Altın, Hacettepe Treasurer: Pedro Santana-Martinez, Department University, Department of American Culture and de Filologías Modernas, Universidad de La Rioja, Literature, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey. C/Cigüeña, 60, 26004 Logroño, Spain E-mail: [email protected]

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CONFERENCE REPORTS

October 16-18, 2003, within a larger American literary mythology, but Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy rather to productively challenge and unsettle the Emerson 2003: An International Celebration ideas of all participants. Judging from the lively of the Emerson Bicentennial debates that followed both lectures and papers, as well as from the degree of student participation, the This conference was organized by the Emerson Re- conference managed to offer a significant opportu- search Group (Sonia Di Loreto [Rutgers University]; nity to rethink Emerson and Emersonian questions Carlo Martinez [University of Chieti-Pescara]; Anna in new ways. Scannavini [University of L’Aquila]; Igina Tattoni [University of Roma 1]; coordinator: Giorgio Mariani The Proceedings of the Conference will be published [University of Roma 1]), in collaboration with the sometime in the Fall. Those interested in purchasing U.S. Embassy, the Centro Studi Americani, and the a copy may contact either Giorgio Mariani (giorgio.m English Department of Roma 1. Somewhat ironi- [email protected]) or Igina Tattoni (igina.tattoni@ cally, it turned out to be the only international con- uniroma1.it) ference celebrating the Emerson bicentennial held outside the US. The irony lies in the fact that, while April 8-10 2004, University of Connecticut, Storrs Italians showed considerable interest in Emerson Celebrating Wallace Stevens: The Poet of in the early part of the Twentieth century, in Italian Poets in Connecticut American Studies of the post World War II-period Emerson ended up being the Cinderella figure of This was a sumptuous get-together, in true Stevens the American Renaissance. The goal of the confer- style, to celebrate the half-century of the publication of ence was to understand why this happened as well Collected Poems. It opened with a panel of poets (J.D. as to stimulate a renewed interest in this often mis- McClatchy, Milton Bates, Susan Howe, James Longen- understood figure by presenting some of the most bach) and included another panel discussion on “The interesting directions taken by Emerson criticism next fifty years” in which reassessments were ripe and over the last decades. projects were broached. John Serio ([email protected]), one of the speakers at the latter panel and editor of The Senior Emerson scholars such as Richard Poirier, Wallace Stevens Journal, has since written as follows: “I Joel Myerson, Ronald Bosco, Shoji Goto, and Vito have set up an e-mail list of people interested in Wallace Amoruso took part in the conference, along with Stevens so that I can efficiently send periodic announce- younger colleagues from both sides of the Atlantic ments. If you would like to be removed from this list, or (Anita Patterson, John Bryant, Richard Grusin, if you are receiving duplicates, please let me know. The Caterina Ricciardi, Annalisa Goldoni, and many oth- Wallace Stevens Society has been invited to sponsor a ers). The event opened with Poirier’s lecture “Why panel at the Twentieth-Century Literature Conference is Emerson so Easily Misunderstood,” and included to be held at the University of Louisville (KY) on Febru- three other general lectures by Joel Myerson “’Not ary 24-26, 2005. If anyone is interested in organizing Instruction, but Provocation: Emerson as Teacher,” a panel on Stevens to represent the Wallace Stevens Anita Patterson “Emerson and the Enigma of Society, please let me know and I will provide you Friendship,” Vito Amoruso “Il lavoro delle mad- with further details. Periodically, please check our repore: Emerson e la modernità americana”. Eight Web site at www.wallacestevens.com for changes. afternoon workshops covered a variety of subjects, For example, in addition to redesigning the Web including the issue of Emerson’s reputation and site soon, we hope to put up a free on-line concord- influence both at home and abroad; Emerson’s visit ance to the poetry of Wallace Stevens. In addition, to Italy and his interest in Italian literature and life; we hope to put on-line all the issues of the journal Emerson’s views on ethics, literature science, and in PDF format so that scholars can readily read, politics; the pedagogical implications of Emerson’s print, search, and/or copy and paste material from philosophy; the question of how to place Emerson’s any issue of the Wallace Stevens Journal.” The texts in a larger international context. Conference included a trip to Hartford and a visit to Stevens’ office at Hartford, with a final brilliant In the spirit of Emerson’s own words in “Circles” lecture at the Hartford Atheneum by Eugene Gaddis —“People wish to be settled; only as far as they are on the Stevens Family and the Atheneum, which unsettled is there any hope for them”— the overall promoted exhibitions of contemporary art, especially aim of the conference was not to stage a formal Surrealism, in Stevens’s decisive pre-war years. “celebration” of Emerson as one of the key figures Apparently he would sneak in during the lunch

1 3 EAAS hour for a private view of the exhibits, and in the Parey, Bernard Brugière, Emanuele Ferrari, and Atheneum (which offered art classes) Holly Stevens Andrea Carosso. (the poet’s daughter) found a home away from home Massimo Bacigalupo, Genoa, Italy (which she needed!). The Hartford tour was organ- ized by the Hartford Friends and Enemies of Wallace May 20-23, 2004, Thessaloniki, Greece Stevens, which is planning to set up 13 markers with MESEA Conference: the stanzas of “13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” The Development of Asian British between Wallace’s home and his office, to mark his Literature, 1984-2004 daily walk to work. The fourth MESEA Conference (Multi-ethnic May 13-14, 2004, Università di Salerno, Italy studies in Europe and Americas), entitled “Ethnic L’impulso autobiografico nell’Ottocento e Communities in Democratic Societies,” was organ- Novecento in Gran Bretagna e nei Paesi di ized in Thessaloniki, a city which proved to be par- lingua inglese ticularly pleasant, in its combination of modernity This conference, sponsored by AIA and AISNA, and ancient history. The venue of the Conference was an occasion for the presidents of the two as- was the old building of Aristotle University, where sociations to meet and arrange further contacts both plenary sessions and workshops took place. on matters of common interest. Carlo Pagetti, Among the subjects of the Conference were trans- current AIA president, gave a talk on autobiogra- nationality, migrations, diasporic literature and phy of Charles Darwin and other scientists. Judy Afro-Asian cross-cultural encounters. Some of the Simons (De Montfort University, GB), spoke of workshops have also dealt with the theme of the Iraqi Louisa May Alcott’s “masks” referring to her story war, thus demonstrating the strong social engage- “Behind the Mask”. Dominique Marçais discussed ment on the part of the scholars who took part in the Polish writer Eva Hoffman, and Carla Locatelli event. “The Development of Asian British Literature, Trento feminist theory. Vita Fortunati of Bologna 1984 - 2004” was the title of the workshop co-chaired spoke of Lytton Strachey. Several graduate stu- by Lina Unali and Elisabetta Marino. The papers dents gave fascinating papers, among them Clara read during this workshop identified two different Antonucci on “Italian American Creativity.” Maria tendencies within the new field of Asian British Teresa Chialant and Michele Bottalico did a terrific Studies, whose critical and theoretical bases have job as organizers and made us all love Salerno and been defined for the first time. In her contribution Fisciano. Lina Unali aimed at presenting mainstream Asian British Literature as separate from the literature May, 19-20 2004, Università di Milano, Italy produced by the Chinese British communities. She Re-Reading T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the considered in particular writers such as Timothy Individual Talent” Mo, Jung Chang, Yeh Mah, Xinran and Guo Sheng. Various differences between Chinese American lit- This interdisciplinary conference was organized erature and Chinese British literature have also by Giovanni Cianci of Università di Milano in Via been pointed out. Elisabetta Marino concentrated Festa del Perdono. There was also an interest- ing exhibition documenting the London artistic her essay on the production of the Asian British context of Eliot’s poetry and prose of 1914-1920, communities, by focusing on the literary outcome and the work of the U.S. designer Edward Knight of the Bangladeshi community in Sheffield, consist- Kauffer (1890-1954), a collaborator of Eliot. The ing of four bilingual anthologies (Bangla/English) key lecture was given by Jewel Spears Brooker published in the time-span between 1990 and 2003. (Eckerd College, Florida), who explained how Eliot Riccardo Rosati read a paper on The Remains of reconciles “impersonality” and his admiration for the Day, by mainstream Japanese British writer personal expression in writers like Yeats and Pound. K. Ishiguro. Aiping Zhang’s paper on Timothy Mo Other speakers were Claudia Corti, Gianni Cianci, was also read and discussed. Michael Hollington, Jason Harding, Caroline Elisabetta Marino, Università di Roma

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February 11-12, 2005, Berlin, Germany American Studies. Presentations are meant to be European Perspectives in American Studies: brief, intense, and controversial. They are intended Histories, Dialogues, Differences as a starting point for discussion, not as a settled issue. Handouts and audio-visual aids are welcome. The Conference is organized by John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free Uni- Please send a one-page abstract for a 20 minute pa- versity Berlin, in cooperation with the Research per by November 15, 2004 to Stefan Brandt (e-mail: Group “The Futures of American Studies.” The [email protected]), fax: +49 (0)30 838- conference intends to establish dialogues between 52850, or Ingrid Thaler (e-mail: [email protected] scholars from Eastern and Western Europe as well marburg.de), fax: +49 (0)6421 2824-343 as the United States and is meant to offer a plat- form for discussions regarding the situation and March 3-5, 2005, Lawrence, Kansas function of American Studies in present-day Eu- Writing, Teaching, Performing America rope. Participants are encouraged to consider the following questions that cut across the disciplines: The interdisciplinary conference co-sponsored by the University of Kansas and The American Theatre * Is there still a place for American Studies in light of and Drama Society will be held in Lawrence, Kansas. global restructuring? The plenary speakers are: Anne Bogart, Director, Sa- * What new and innovative paradigms/methods can ratoga International Theatre Institute; Christopher European perspectives provide today? How can Bigsby, University of East Anglia, leading scholar they contribute to international American Studies? of American theatre and drama; Jose Muñoz, New * In what ways can European perspectives in American York University, leading scholar of performance and Studies contribute to transatlantic and international American Studies. dialogues between the USA, Europe, and beyond? * In the last fifteen years, the political situation in Eu- The New Literacies Conference is open to scholars, rope has changed dramatically. Just recently, former teachers, writers, performers, and practitioners inte- communist states have joined the European Com- rested in discussing US culture in an interdiscipli- munity. How do these changes affect our discipline? nary framework. With this year’s theme, “Writing, * How is the myth of America constructed and nego- Teaching, Performing America,” we hope to attract tiated in Europe today? panel, paper, and workshop proposals that are fresh * Does recent scholarship in European American and open. Among topics to be explored are: What Studies (transnational studies, diasporic/border does it mean to be an “American” artist or writer? studies, and comparative American Studies) offer How is “American” identity changing? What is the alternate modes of investigating US culture? role of performance (or writing, or teaching) in sha- * How are American Studies practiced in Eastern ping “America”? Europe? * What role does the discipline of American Studies To make inquiries, please contact the conference want to play in the current discussions concerning co-coordinators the role of American culture and politics in Europe? William Demastes (e-mail: [email protected]) Iris Smith Fischer (e-mail: [email protected]). Participants from all fields of American studies are encouraged to submit proposals which might address, March 11-12, 2005, Universitè Champagne-Ardennes but are not limited to: France, L’ordre et le chaos/Chaos and Order - The self-definition of European American Studies after the end of the Cold War The international conference will deal with the inter- - Rethinking multiculturalism, hybridity, and ethnic- pretation of literary texts. We will concern ourselves ity from a European perspective with the twin concept of chaos and order. Chaos can - Abstract citizenship, transnational studies, imperi- be apprehended at the level of the content of a liter- alism, neo-imperialism, postcolonialism ary work, as a place or other dimension represented - The stakes of interdisciplinarity in European in that work; it can, however, also be analyzed at

1 5 EAAS a textual level as an essential component in the April 11 - 13, 2005, Amerika Haus, Munich, Germany production of meaning. As a direct consequence, it 26th American Indian Workshop would appear that the real question of chaos could precisely be that of meaning: What is meaning? Is it “New Buffaloes”, New Ways? Traditions and Tran- order which cannot be separated from chaos? Who sitions in Native American Culture: What has lasted, produces it and for whom? According to this logic, what has changed? The term “new buffalo” is used one additional consequence could be that chaos is as a metaphor for Indian casinos by both Indians and linked not only to order, but also to identity. It could Non-Indians. This workshop will deal with a wider be tentatively proposed that chaos can be thought range of “New Buffaloes” and their effects on Native of as synonymous with the real, or as that which American culture. These “New Buffaloes” include resists us, what cannot be predicted — complexity, Native American commercial art, music, film, lite- novelty, pure immanence, time without beginning or rature, tourism, on-and-off reservation economic end, etc. enterprises-and casinos. We invite papers that deal with this topic. Papers will contain examples taken from literature written in English. The deadline for submissions is * What are the effects of the “New Buffaloes” on December 15, 2004. For further information please Native North America? contact: Prof. Daniel Thomières CRIIILLA Univer- * Have the “New Buffaloes” influenced a new gene- sité de Reims, 57, rue Pierre Taittinger, 51096 Reims ration of Indians? Cedex. Tel. 03 26 91 36 19 * Are there new concepts of gender, ethnicity, race, E- mail: [email protected] economy, leadership, and religion developing? * What are the effects on museum exhibitions, archa- April 1-3, 2005, Wichita, Kansas eology, and the art market? Empire and Independence * What are the effects on Native American represen- tation in literature, media, and on the internet? In the decade and a half since the break up of the So- * How do the “New Buffaloes” affect the federal re- viet empire, the world experienced dramatic change cognition process and vice versa? as new nations and older nations responded to a sin- gle superpower, the United States. This conference Current Research Session: We invite persons, who will bring together scholars from around the world do not feel represented by the general theme of the to analyze the radical changes that have been reshap- 26th American Indian Workshop to give an overview ing our world. Under the title “How Has the World on their current research in this session. We espe- Changed With the Emergence of One Superpower?”, cially encourage students going for their M.A. or workshops will examine new nationalism, resurgent Ph.D. to present their research. religion, terrorism, interethnic tensions, changing perceptions of Europe, Asia, and America, chal- Abstract: Maximum of 150 words (including title, lenges to international law, immigration, and global- name, address, and email of the author) Deadline: ization. The scholars presenting papers will also ad- dress the impact on their regions of the unitary New October 31, 2004. For more information see web World Order. Fulbright scholars in residence in the site: www.amerikahaus.de/program/events/AIW26/ US will be one core group of participants, augmented AIW26.html with other international and US scholars in assorted disciplines: cultural studies, American studies, law, April 21-24, 2005, Tours, France political science, history, etc. The conference is (CAAR) International Conference organized by the Division of Social and Behavioral The Black World: INNERSpace: INNERCity: Sciences, Friends University (2100 University Blvd, INTERAction: INTERNation Wichita, KS 67213) and is open to all. Workshop: The African-American Scene: An Inter- Deadline for paper proposals is October, 30, 2004. ethnic Perspective. This workshop intends to Send workshop proposals to all three organizers by explore the complex relations between African June 1, 2004. Americans and other ethnic groups from a histo- Dr. Guang Qiu Xu [email protected] rical perspective as well as through various literary Dr. Gretchen Eick [email protected] and visual representations. The stress will be laid Dr. Yonka Krasteva [email protected] on the inter-active, inter-dependent nature of Black For on line paper proposals go to identity/identities construction. www.friends.edu/empire Papers can address such issues as Blacks and Indi-

1 6 EAAS ans (captivity and slave narratives/fugitive slaves in * the new racisms Indian tribes), Black-Jewish relations (the diaspora * discourses of domination and racial bias experience), the model character of the Black Civil * memory as “home” Rights Movement for other ethnic movements or re- * the emergence of new identity space naissances, ambivalent inter-actions in other zones * the re-shaping of collective identities of cultural contact like the American West —past and * multiple identities present— (Black cowboys/vaqueros), the inner city * the politics of location (Baldwin, Wright, Spike Lee’s movies), the Canada- * relocation U.S. border and the Caribbean. Comparisons with * residential segregation and neighborhood the European inter-ethnic scene are also welcome. integration Given the inter-disciplinary nature of the workshop, * reactions to Islam the organizers welcome papers that address these * intersection of gender and migration or other related topics from a historical, literary or * gender-based discrimination and its effect on visual perspective. migration patterns: -gendered social structures, preferences, practices Please send your abstract and brief CV to the orga- -gendered ethnicity nizers by November 15, 2004. -gender mainstreaming strategies Ada Savin, University of Versailles, France -gender and geography E-mail: [email protected] Heiner Bus, Bamberg University, Germany: * Turkish immigration to Europe: E-mail: [email protected] - supra-national citizenship within the framework of the EU social awareness of diversity in Europe May 4-6, 2005, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey - Turkish immigrants in Europe 10th International Cultural Studies Symposium: When “Away” Becomes “Home”: Cultural * Turkish immigration to the US Significance of Migration - first Turkish immigrants in the US the history of early Turkish communities in the US The Ege University International Cultural Studies - early Turkish civil societies/associations/ Symposium seeks paper proposals for its 10th an- foundations in the US nual conference to be held at Ege University, Faculty of Letters, Izmir, Turkey. This year’s topic aims to We welcome proposals from all disciplines; such explore a wide range of experiences associated with as, anthropology, demography, economics, educa- mixing of cultures/peoples and migration, immigra- tion, film studies, geography, history, international tion, movement. We offer the following subject areas relations, linguistics, literature, media studies, phi- in the hope that they will inspire but not limit you: losophy, political science, psychology, urban stud- ies, sociology. Proposals may be submitted in either * immigration/memory/identity English or Turkish as there will be separate sessions * migration as a common human experience in both languages. The proposals must include: a * migration as part of our histories title, an abstract not more than 300 words (Times * the effects of migration on culture/family New Roman, 12 pt, double spaced), the name of the * representations of migration in folklore/literature/ presenter, affiliation, e-mail and mailing addresses, a cinema brief biography not more than 50 words, and special * self-definition in novels/movies concerned with requirements if any. If it is a group proposal the full migration names of all presenters and brief bios from each are * oral his/herstories of immigrants required. Please do not send your abstract in the * life-writing of immigrants body of your mail message. Attach the proposal as an * re-writing history from a subaltern perspective MS word document. The Symposium web site will be resisting mainstream narratives online shortly at: http://css.ege.edu.tr * undocumented migration * redefining the boundaries of “belonging” The deadline for submission is January 17, 2005. * redefinition of national boundaries Proposals may be submitted via e-mail or mail to: * civic responsibilities of immigrants Prof. Günseli Sönmez İşçi, * contribution of migrants to their adoptive cultures Ege University, Faculty of Letters, * creating new languages Department of English Language and Literature

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June 30 - July 3, 2005 July 27-29, 2005, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Fifth Symbiosis Biennial Conference Anglo- Points of Contact: The Heritages of William American Literary Relations Anglo-American Carlos Williams Hellenisms. Proposals are welcome from scholars wishing to par- We are now calling for paper and panel proposals for ticipate in a round-table “seminar panel” to show- the Fifth Symbiosis Conference. Papers are welcome case their work-in-progress on topics relating to the in all aspects of Anglo-American Literary and Cul- writing of William Carlos Williams or on poets and tural Relations. artists influenced by him. The format of the conferen- ce will allow for participants’ papers (20-25 pages) to For this conference, proposals are also welcome on be circulated in advance of the meeting. At the mee- the subject of British and American reception of ting each participant will be allotted one hour within Hellenic literature, culture and myth as well as treat- which time they will introduce their work for 10-15 ments of Greece in both literatures. Proposals of 250 minutes thus leaving ample time for questions and words with a provisional title and a short bio should discussion. The meeting will take place on Thursday be submitted by January 15, 2005. For enquiries and and Friday, with a reception and guest presentation abstract submissions please contact: to open proceedings on Wednesday evening. Guest Dr. Tatiani Rapatzikou speaker and respondent to the papers will be Peter Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Eng- Halter, Professor of American Literature, Univer- lish, Department of American Literature and Culture sity of Lausanne, and author of The Revolution in Thessaloniki 54 124 Greece the Visual Arts and the Poetry of William Carlos Email: [email protected] Williams (1994). Please send a 200 word outline of Fax:+30-2310-99 74 32 your proposed topic by December 19, 2004 to Ian Further information, including recommended Copestake at [email protected]

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Exploring Global Perspectives a global culture, the assumptions upon which Area Studies were based have started to be undermined. Berkshire Publishing Group is preparing Exploring Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures is an Global Perspectives for publication by Congressional exciting new publishing venture that will promote the Quarterly Press in September 2005. This work will study of American literatures beyond national perime- feature essays that explore the processes that have ters. How are place-based identities transformed by a shaped and continue to shape perspectives of the wider Atlantic world? To what extent has the litera- United States around the world, and how these pers- ture of the American hemisphere always and inevitably pectives fit into the framework of broad global issues been in dialogue with that of Europe? What forms of and concerns. literary expression do national identity and cultural nationalism take in a transnational environment? The editorial board for this project includes: Laurien Alexandre (Antioch University), Gerald Fry (Univer- The series will explore the theoretical implications of sity of Minnesota), Yahya Kamalipour (Purdue Uni- comparing transatlantic literary cultures and publish versity), Arne Kislenko (Ryerson University, Canada), important studies of transatlantic exchange in practice. Erick Langer (Georgetown University), Denis Ma- karov (Moscow State Pedagogical University, Russia), Proposals for the series should be sent to the Series Brendon O’Connor (Griffith University, Australia), Editors: Prof. Susan Manning (Susan.Manning@ Wafula Okumu (Conflict Management Centre, Ke- ed.ac.uk) or Dr Andrew Taylor (Andrew.Taylor@ nya), and Michael Rockland (Rutgers University). ed.ac.uk); English Literature, University of Edinburgh, David Hume Tower, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 The topic of the essay might be a perspective itself, 9JX, United Kingdom. a cause of a perspective, some aspect of the perspec- tive process, or the result of a perspective. The ess- Asian American Entries in Encyclopedia of American ay should tell the reader why this topic matters in Ethnic Literature deepening our understanding of perspectives on the United States, past and present and possibly in the Scholars of Asian American literature are invited to future. With this general goal in mind, authors have contribute articles to be included in the Encyclopedia much leeway in how they address the topic, although of American Ethnic Literature, a 3-volume set, to be real events and issues should be included. Please keep published by Facts On File, a New York publisher of in mind that while foreign relations may be an impor- reference books for high school and college students tant component of the topic, the article should not be www.factsonfile.com. Entries range from 400 to 1000 a history of U.S. foreign relations. The key issue is words, and each contributor may write one or seve- how and why does this matter in seeking to explain ral entries. Contributors who write a total of 3,000 perspectives on the U.S. published words or more will receive a copy of the three-volume set (tentatively priced at $195); those The articles can focus on a range of topics that will who write less will receive five copies of their entry or illuminate the complex role the United States has in entries and will have an option to buy the set at half global affairs and range in length from 1500 to 3000 price. All payments will be made at the time of publi- words; due dates will be throughout the next few cation of the Encyclopedia. months. All contributors will receive a free copy of the work when it is published in September 2005. If If you are interested in participating in this project, interested in participating, please include informa- please include a list of authors you would like to wri- tion about your interests and research areas and/or te about (if you choose an author, I will assume that attach your current C.V. For further information or you will also write entries on his/her major works as for the list of available articles, along with the scope listed); a short bio; your daytime phone number; and statement for thematic articles, please contact Karen your e-mail and regular mail addresses. Shortly after Advokaat, from Berkshire Publishing Group. June 30th, I will send you your assignment, guidelines, E-mail: [email protected]. a style sheet, sample entries, and a contract. Deadline for entries is December 20, 2004. Preference will be Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures, given to those who can send in their entries early, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, England before the deadline. For further information, contact Prof. Seiwoong Oh (Co-editor in charge of Asian Ame- With the end of the Cold War and the burgeoning of rican entries) by e-mail at [email protected]

1 9 EAAS or at the Department of English, Rider University, a new generation of historians departing from this 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648- political interpretation have tried to re-evaluate the 3099, USA decade’s meanings and significance. Scholars are now focusing on the origins of 60s radicalism, the links Journal of American Studies of Turkey (JAST) between radicalism and liberalism, and the impact of Special Issue on United States History conservatism — so much so that even the very extent of radicalism has been questioned as new works on The Editors of the Journal of American Studies of racial, sexual and social relations have appeared. Turkey invite contributions to a special issue for December 15, 2004 is the deadline for submission of 2005 on United States History. This issue seeks to paper proposals (300 words max) to Romain Huret present innovative studies in the political, diplomatic, ([email protected]). For further information please visit social, military, or intellectual histories of the United http://www.transatlantica.org. States. Interdisciplinary and comparative approaches are welcome. The issue will contain research articles Women and International Development (WID) as well as reviews of recent books and films. Only Publication Series, Michigan State University submissions of original articles and reviews not previ- ously published or concurrently under consideration Publishes peer reviewed manuscripts that examine elsewhere will be considered. the relationships between gender and global transfor- mation, and which illuminate processes of change, in Submissions should be approximately 3000-5000 the broadest sense. Through empirical studies, theo- words in length, and reviews should not exceed 500 retical analyses, and policy discussions, individual words. Four hardcopies of submissions should be papers in the series address a range of topics, includ- sent to the following address: Editors, JAST Issue on ing women’s historical and contemporary participa- United States History, Bilkent University, FEASS, tion in economic and political spheres, globalization, Department of History, 06800 Bilkent, Ankara, Tur- intra- and inter-family roles and relationships, gen- key. The deadline for the editors’ receipt of submis- der identity, women’s health and healthcare, and the sions for this issue is January 15, 2005. gender division of labor. We particularly encourage manuscripts that bridge the gap between research, A semiannual publication of the American Studies policy, and practice. The Working Papers on WID Association of Turkey, JAST operates with a blind series features article-length manuscripts by scholars peer referee system. It publishes work in English by from a broad range of disciplines. Working Papers scholars of any nationality. Contributors need not are at a late stage of formulation and contribute new be members of the American Studies Association of understandings of women’s ever changing economic, Turkey. JAST has been indexed in the MLA Interna- tional Bibliography, Ulrich’s International Periodicals social, and political positions. Directory, and the American Humanities Index since the publication of its first issue of Spring 1995, and in The WID Forum series features short research and the MLA Directory of Periodicals since 1999. project reports and policy analyses. The Forum se- ries disseminates papers that are brief and at an early Please visit http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~jast/ for pre- stage of formulation. WID Forum papers contribute vious issues, additional submission guidelines, and new insights to existing scholarship in order to influ- required formatting of submissions. E-mail inquiries ence development policy and programming. If you may be made to [email protected]. are interested in submitting a manuscript to the WID Publication Series, please send a 150 word abstract Another Look at the Sixties in the United States summarizing the paper’s essential points and find- ings to Dr. Anne Ferguson, WID Publication Series TransatlanticA, the French e-journal of American editor and Tara Hefferan, WID Publication Series Studies, is planning to devote a 2005 issue to the managing editor. If the abstract suggests your paper new interpretation of the Sixties in the United States. is suitable for the WID Publication Series, the full In the 1970s and the 1980s, the field was essentially paper will be invited for peer review and publication dominated by historians, many of whom were deeply consideration. Only invited papers will be considered influenced by the new radicalism of the 1960s. They for publication; no unsolicited manuscripts will be were mainly looking for the reasons of the failure of the considered. Please send inquiries to the contact ad- New Left: many, echoing criticisms by the Old Left, dress below: Women & International Development faulted the Movement’s lack of coherent ideology and Program 206 International Center, Michigan State disciplined organization. Others, more sympathetic University, E. Lansing, MI 48824 571/353-5040; to the Movement, put the blame on its disintegra- Fax 517/432-4845 Email: [email protected] Visit the tion into sectarian radicalism. In the past ten years, website at http://www.isp.msu.edu/wid

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Aji, Hélène, ed. Ezra Pound and Referentiality. vision of a world that is increasingly a global village, Paris: Presses de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2003. one in which memory and local place help measure various forms of ethnic representation through a The volume is entirely in English with an introduction reflection of possible sites of cultural engagement by Jean-Michel Rabaté; articles by Daniel Albright, and agency. Rebecca Beasley, Mark Byron, Helen M. Dennis, Andrew Eastman, Stephen Fender, Christine Froula, Ellis, Sylvia. Britain, America, and the Vietnam Philip Grover, Burton Hatlen, Jennifer Kilgore, War. Westport, CT: Praegers Publishers, 2004. James Kraus, Fiona McMahon, Peter Nicholls, Bob Perelman, Marjorie Perloff, Richard Read, Christine Fabi, Maria Giulia. “Introduction,” Sutton E. Griggs, Savinel, Richard Sieburth, Leon Surette, David Ten Imperium in Imperio. Preface by Vita Fortunati. Tr. Eyck; and a poem Tony Lopez. Pierpaolo Mura. Ravenna: Longo, 2004.

Bacigalupo, Massimo et al., eds. Genova per noi. Francini, Antonella. ed. Il ritmo delle emozioni by Testimonianze di scrittori contemporanei. Genova: Yusef Komunyakaa. Genoa, 2004. A bilingual selec- Accademia Ligure di Scienze e Lettere, 2004. tion of poems.

A collection of poems and essays by sixty-four writ- Giorcelli, Cristina. ed. Abito e Identità. Palermo: ers related to Genoa 2004 European Capital of Cul- Ila Palma, 2004. Essays by Cristina Giorcelli, Anna ture. Contributors include Robert Creeley, Mary de Scacchi, Michela Alliata Vanon and others. Rachewiltz, Philip Levine, J.D. McClatchy, Czeslaw Milosz, Wayne Pounds and Mary Jo Salter. Copies Hinds Michael and Stephen Matterson, ed., The of the volume can be obtained from the publisher, American Poetry Book. Amsterdam/New York, Accademia Ligure di Scienze e Lettere, Palazzo NY 2004. VIII, 208 pp. (Textxet 44)-1712-0, Paper Ducale, 16100 Genova. 43EU, ISBN: 90-420.

Baritono, Raffaella et al. eds. Public and Private in This pioneering collection of new essays challenges American History. State, Family, Subjectivity in the established modes of reading American lyric poetry, Twentieth Century. Torino: Otto Editore, 2003. by orientating interpretation so that it incorporates an awareness of the book context in which indi- Bartocci, Clara. ed. La città multietnica nella sec- vidual poems are embedded. These essays critically onda metà del Novecento. Napoli: ESI, 2004. 7-21. explore individual books by Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Hart Crane, Wil- Boelhower, William, Rocio G. Davis and Carmen liam Carlos Williams, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Birkle, eds. Sites of Ethnicity: Europe and the Adrienne Rich, Susan Howe, Lyn Heijinian and Americas. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter Jorie Graham, and consider the book as a restric- 2004. ISBN: 3-8253-1655-6. tive, “binding” concept for Emily Dickinson and some contemporary American poets. Rebound both Sites of Ethnicity brings together contributions from provides innovative readings of supposedly familiar scholars in Canada, the U.K., Finland, Germany, It- poets and books, and also generates critical strate- aly, Poland, Spain, and the United States who share gies for renewed engagement with American poetry an interest in exploring the theoretical possibilities traditions. As a “speaking whole” Rebound address- of site analysis and the crucial role of place and spa- es a rich variety of topics: intentionality as herme- tial tactics in multi-ethnic societies. The strategic neutic; the architecture and artefacture of the book; means for deciphering total social facts —compris- gender identity and the book; the positioning of the ing broad issues such as travel, subject positioning, book in postmodern poetics; the consequences of identity, ethnicity, culture, and memory— are as textual history for interpretation and reception; and diverse and wide-ranging as the contributors to the American poetry book as metonym for nation. this volume. Manifestations of ethnicity in literature Contributors: Domhnall Mitchell, Eldrid Herrington, and non-literary texts, music, food, TV series, photo- Charles Altieri, Stephen Matterson, Stephen Wilson, graphs, and even gravesites, are revealed to be con- Maria Irene Ramalho De Sousa-Santos, Ron Callan, structed, performed, eaten, remembered, desired, Michael Hinds, Gareth Reeves, Lucy Collins, Justin and imagined as important sites for a definition of Quinn, Nerys Williams and Nick Selby. Charles both individual and collective identities that, when Bernstein’s “The Book as Architecture” is reprinted studied in-depth, prove consistently elusive, fluid, as an Afterword. and always already deferred. The papers present an

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Hölbling, Walter W. and Klaus Rieser, eds. What is London & Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2004, American? New Identities in U.S. Culture Series, 168 pp., hardcover, ISBN: 0313315140. American Studies in Austria, Vol. 3, 392pp., paper Focusing on Sexton’s poems rather than on the life 24.90EU, ISBN 3-8258-7734-5. she led, this fresh critique of her work restarts the debate about her poetry thirty years after her death, Identity is one of the central cultural narratives of arguing that Sexton’s poetry collections develop a the US on which both dominant and resistant dis- three-way investigation into the possibilities of courses draw. This critical anthology honors the language to convey an individual’s response to her topic’s diversity while concentrating on one cen- own existence, to the project of defining love tral aspect, that of newness. Construction of (by physical, human, and divine standards) and to identities, their invention, reinvention and re- the purpose of the aesthetic in our understanding formulation are discussed within four thematic of these entities. The book charts the chronological categories: New Concepts and Reconsiderations, development of Sexton’s poetic aesthetic and Migration and Multiple Identities, Individuation provides a new interpretation of this major poet’s and Privatized Identity Construction, and (Re) work. Inventions and Virtual Identities. Written by European as well as U.S. scholars, ranging from Maffi, Mario. New York City. An Outsider’s Inside the 19th century to the utopian future, from main- View. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, stream canonized figures to transgender performers, 2004. from a critique of individualism to a celebration —————, Mississippi. Il grande fiume: un viaggio of loneliness, the articles present a cross-section of alle fonti dell’America, Milano: Rizzoli, 2004. current research on U.S. identities. Newman, Mark. The Civil Rights Movement. Contributors: Sonja Bahn-Coblans, Robert Fisher, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. Peter Freese. Gudrun Grabher, Walter Hölbling, ISBN 0748615938. Louis Kern, Elisabeth Kraus, Paul Lauter, Roberta Maierhofer, Carl D. Malmgren, Berndt Ostendorf, Perosa, Sergio. L’albero della cuccagna. Classici e Klaus Rieser, Susanne Rieser, Theodore Schatzki, post-coloniali di lingua inglese. Vicenza: Accademia Brigitte Scheer-Schäzler, Justine Tally, James Thomp- Olimpica, 2004. son, Hanna Wallinger, Waldemar Zacharasiewicz. Online orders possible from http://www.lit-verlag.de/ Pisanti, Tommaso. ed. E. A. Poe. Il Corvo e tutte le isbn/ 3-8258-7734-5 and http://www.amazon.de/ poesie. Roma: Newton, 2003.

McGowan, Philip. Anne Sexton and Middle Pulitano, Elvira. Toward a Native American Critical Generation Poetry: The Geography of Grief Theory. Lincoln: Nebraska University Press, 2003.

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New Publications of the American Studies Monograph Series, Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg

Bergman, Ina. And Then the Child Becomes Höss, Tilman. Poe, James, Hitchcock. Die a Woman: Weibliche Initiation in der Rationalisierung der Kunst. Vol. 111, 2003. amerikanischen Kurgeschichte 1865-1970. Vol. 110, 2003. Kanzler, Katja. Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations: The Multicultural Evolution of Birkle, Carmen. Migration-Miscegenation- STAR TREK. Vol. 115, 2004. Transculturation: Writing Multicultural America into the Twentieth Century. Vol.114, 2004. Köhler, Angelika. Ambivalent Desires: The New Woman Between Social Modernization and Grabbe, Hans-Jürgen, ed. Colonial Encounters. Modern Writing. Vol. 113, 2004. Vol. 109, 2003. Mayer, Sylvia. Naturethik und Neuengland- Haselstein, Ulla, Berndt Ostendorf, and Peter Regionalliteratur: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rose Schneck, eds. Iconographies of Power: The Poetics Terry Cooke, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins and Politics of Visual Representation. Freeman. Vol. 116, 2004. Vol. 108, 2003. Schindler, Sabine. Authentizität und Heide, Markus. Grenzüberschreitungen: Chicano- Inszenierung: Die Vermittlung von Geschichte in Erzählliteratur und die Inszenierung von amerikanischen historic sites. Vol. 112, 2003. Kulturkontakt. Vol. 120, 2004.

Hornung, Alfred, ed. Sexualities in American Culture. Vol. 85, 2004.

i Editorial Notes

n this issue, a section is devoted to conference reports hoping to serve the members by providing information about the conferences on American Studies held in different countries in Europe. IIt is desired that this section be expanded, nourished by informative assays to be contributed by the membership. Likewise, articles about the Programs, Departments of American Studies in the respective countries of affiliated Associations are expected to be published in the Newsletter as well, to facilitate networking possibilities.

I would like to draw your attention to the Deadlines for submissions to the next issue of the ASE Newsletter and the information to be sent to the Secretary General Ole O. Moen at [email protected]

March 15, 2004

Updated Membership lists of the National Associations with e-mail addresses and the changes in Board Members, due to new elections.

March 15, 2004

Submissions for the May 2005 ASE Newsletter to the editor, Gülriz Büken at [email protected]

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