A fresh new Call for Papers for JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy)! Special issue, titled “Resurgence and Decolonization: Creating Alternative Worlds.” (deadline Dec 31) ojs.unito.it/index.php/jami…

The CFP for the 2024 special issue of JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy) edited by Mattia Arioli and @sarariccetti is out! "Resurgence and Decolonization: Creating Alternative Worlds" explores the transformative power of Indigenous Resurgence movements. Deadline: December 31. ojs.unito.it/index.php/jami…

CFP deadline extended to Jan 15th! JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy) "Our inquiry aims to explore the transformative power of Indigenous Resurgence movements, which seek to transcend the limitations of settler colonial systems by envisioning alternative ways of thinking, organizing, and being."

We extended the CFP: you have time until February 15th!

We extended the deadline for the CFP. You have time until January 15th to submit your proposals for the next issue of JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy)

The CFP for the 4th AISNA Graduates Conference is out now! aisna-graduates.online/aisna-graduate…

Congratulations to our editor Marco Petrelli on the publication of issue n. 14 of #FromtheEuropeanSouth journal, which he co-edited with Anna Scacchi, entitled "On the beat: Owning/Reclaming Time against White Chronocentrism". fesjournal.eu/numeri/on-the-…

Issue 23 is out now! It features a Thematic Section titled "Discourses in Challenging Times", edited by Denise Milizia and Stefania Maci, and articles in the fields of American and English Studies. Full Open Access: iperstoria.it/issue/view/60

Our latest issue is out. "Queering America: Gender, Sex and Recognition" investigates the ways in which history, literature, political science, and arts explore the interplay of gender, sex, recognition. Thanks to our editors F. Bacci, E. Monaco, Chiara Patrizi ojs.unito.it/index.php/jami…

"Queering America Today" is the introduction to our latest issue. Francesco Bacci (Freie Universität), Emanuele Monaco, and Chiara Patrizi (Università di Bologna) aspired to provide the readers with current critical practices and debates that use queerness as a critical lens. 👇👇👇 ojs.unito.it/index.php/jami…

In "Queering American History. New Perspectives and the Impact of Archival Activism", Emanuele Monaco (Università di Bologna) focuses on the way queer history has been defined by academia and what it means to preserve the memory of discriminated communities. ojs.unito.it/index.php/jami…

In "Subverting Same-Sex Couples’ Equal Dignity", A. Castet explores how originalist justices framed marriage equality to shift discrimination onto religious conservatives who claim the right not to recognize LGBTQ+ citizens by invoking religious freedom. ojs.unito.it/index.php/jami…

JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy) Issue N. 9: ‘Queering America Today’ is available — curated by me, Emanuele Monaco, and Chiara Patrizi

"Queering America Today" is the introduction to our latest issue. Francesco Bacci (Freie Universität), Emanuele Monaco, and Chiara Patrizi (Università di Bologna) aspired to provide the readers with current critical practices and debates that use queerness as a critical lens. 👇👇👇 ojs.unito.it/index.php/jami…

In "Let Me Get this Queer. Recognition of Age and Sexuality in Grace and Frankie", Daniele Atza (Università di Torino) examines how older queer identities are represented in the contemporary American sitcom Grace and Frankie (2015 – 2022). Read it at this link. ojs.unito.it/index.php/jami…

In "The Trope of Africanism to Address Homosexuality in Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin", Francesca Scaccia (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) analyzes why Baldwin uses Africanlike characters to explore the taboo topics of homosexuality and bisexuality in the 1950s USA. ojs.unito.it/index.php/jami…

In "(Re-)Narrating Transgender Pasts, Presents, and Futures in @CaseyPlett Little Fish", Steph Berens (Universität München) explores how cisnormative narrations of transness hold trans subjectivities in a constant temporal bind. Read it online at this link. ojs.unito.it/index.php/jami…

In “Was This Garden, then, the Eden of the Present World?” N. Hawthorne’s Representation of Padua in “Rappaccini’s Daughter”, Nicolò Salmaso (Indiana University) examines the historical accuracy of the Padua setting in Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter” (1844). ojs.unito.it/index.php/jami…

On the latest issue of our journal, Pilar Martinez Benedi (Università degli Studi dell'Aquila) reviewed Cody Marrs's book "Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies: An Aesthetics of All Things" (Oxford University Press, 2023). You can read it at this link. ojs.unito.it/index.php/jami…