aspeers is the first European graduate journal for American studies. It was launched in 2007, this is the third issue. It... More > contains academic contributions by: Anton Hieke ("Farbrekhers in America: The Americanization of Jewish Blue-Collar Crime, 1900-1931"); Magnus Nissel ("The Ever-Ticking Bomb: Examining 24's Promotion of Torture against the Background of 9/11"); Wieland Schwanebeck ("From Shakespeare's Kings to Scorsese's Kingpins: Contemporary Mob Movies and the Genre of Tragedy"). And Art Contributions by: Lauren K. Alleyne, Valentin Beinroth and Florian Jenett, Marie H. Elcin, and Mirko Martin. < Less

aspeers is the first European graduate journal for American studies. It was launched in 2007, this is the fourth issue. It... More > contains academic contributions by: Martin Domke ("Into the Vertical: Basketball, Urbanization, and African American Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century America"); Anke Geertsma ("Redefining Trauma Post 9/11: Freud’s Talking Cure and Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"); Julian Henneberg ("'Something Extraordinary Hovering Just Outside Our Touch': The Technological Sublime in Don DeLillo’s White Noise"); Stephen Koetzing ("The Trespassing Cyborg: Technology, Nature, and the Nation in Wild Wild West"); Jutta Schulze ("A 'Truth Like This': Language and the Construction of Power and Knowledge in Vampire Fiction"). And Art Contributions by: Simon Cazzanelli, Pamela Dewey, Monika Linzmaier, and Ina Müller. < Less

aspeers is the first European graduate journal for American Studies. It was launched in 2007, this is the first issue.
It... More > contains academic contributions by: Johannes Barthel (Hybridity as a "Narrative of Liberation" in Trevor D. Rhone’s Old Story Time), Konstantin Butz (Rereading American Hardcore: Intersectional Privilege and the Lyrics of Early Californian Hardcore Punk), Frank Cyba (“An Older Light Than Ours:” Faulkner’s Reflections on Race and Racism in Light in August), Judith Freiin von Falkenhausen (The Influence of Sigmund Freud’s Clark Lectures on American Concepts of the Self), Stuart Noble (Don DeLillo and Society’s Reorientation to Time and Space: An Interpretation of Cosmopolis), Rosi Smith (Seeing Through the Bell Jar: Distorted Female Identity in Cold War America), and art contributions by Jonathon Dore, Myronn Hardy, David Mills, and Kathrin Zöller.

For more information on aspeers, please refer to www.aspeers.com < Less

aspeers is the first European graduate journal for American studies. It was launched in 2007, this is the second issue. It... More > contains academic contributions by: Nathalie Aghoro ("Bilocated Identities: Taking the Fork in the Road in 'Against The Day'"); Caroline Erb ("Hardened Borders: A Case Study on Inefficient Solutions to the Immigration Problem in El Paso"); Klara-Stephanie Szlezák ("The Ellis Island Experience: Through the Eyes of Lewis Hine"). Art Contributions are by: Grit Alter, "jamie" gioe, Daniel Graziadei, Claudia Müller, Johannes Warda, and Nausica Irène Zaballos. < Less

aspeers is the first European graduate journal for American studies. It was launched in 2007, this is the third issue. It... More > contains academic contributions by: Anton Hieke ("Farbrekhers in America: The Americanization of Jewish Blue-Collar Crime, 1900-1931"); Magnus Nissel ("The Ever-Ticking Bomb: Examining 24’s Promotion of Torture against the Background of 9/11"); Wieland Schwanebeck ("From Shakespeare’s Kings to Scorsese’s Kingpins: Contemporary Mob Movies and the Genre of Tragedy"). And Art Contributions by: Lauren K. Alleyne, Valentin Beinroth and Florian Jenett, Marie H. Elcin, and Mirko Martin. < Less

aspeers is the first European graduate journal for American studies. It was launched in 2007, this is the fourth issue. It... More > contains academic contributions by: Martin Domke ("Into the Vertical: Basketball, Urbanization, and African American Culture in Early-Twentieth-Century America"); Anke Geertsma ("Redefining Trauma Post 9/11: Freud’s Talking Cure and Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"); Julian Henneberg ("'Something Extraordinary Hovering Just Outside Our Touch': The Technological Sublime in Don DeLillo’s White Noise"); Stephen Koetzing ("The Trespassing Cyborg: Technology, Nature, and the Nation in Wild Wild West"); Jutta Schulze ("A 'Truth Like This': Language and the Construction of Power and Knowledge in Vampire Fiction"). And Art Contributions by: Simon Cazzanelli, Pamela Dewey, Monika Linzmaier, and Ina Müller. < Less

aspeers is the first European graduate journal for American studies. It was launched in 2007, this is the third issue. It... More > contains academic contributions by: Anton Hieke ("Farbrekhers in America: The Americanization of Jewish Blue-Collar Crime, 1900-1931"); Magnus Nissel ("The Ever-Ticking Bomb: Examining 24’s Promotion of Torture against the Background of 9/11"); Wieland Schwanebeck ("From Shakespeare’s Kings to Scorsese’s Kingpins: Contemporary Mob Movies and the Genre of Tragedy"). And Art Contributions by: Lauren K. Alleyne, Valentin Beinroth and Florian Jenett, Marie H. Elcin, and Mirko Martin. < Less

aspeers is the first European graduate journal for American studies. It was launched in 2007, this is the second issue. It... More > contains academic contributions by: Nathalie Aghoro ("Bilocated Identities: Taking the Fork in the Road in 'Against The Day'"); Caroline Erb ("Hardened Borders: A Case Study on Inefficient Solutions to the Immigration Problem in El Paso"); Klara-Stephanie Szlezák ("The Ellis Island Experience: Through the Eyes of Lewis Hine"). Art Contributions are by: Grit Alter, "jamie" gioe, Daniel Graziadei, Claudia Müller, Johannes Warda, and Nausica Irène Zaballos. < Less

aspeers is the first European graduate journal for American Studies. It was launched in 2007, this is the first issue.
It... More > contains academic contributions by: Johannes Barthel (Hybridity as a "Narrative of Liberation" in Trevor D. Rhone’s Old Story Time), Konstantin Butz (Rereading American Hardcore: Intersectional Privilege and the Lyrics of Early Californian Hardcore Punk), Frank Cyba (“An Older Light Than Ours:” Faulkner’s Reflections on Race and Racism in Light in August), Judith Freiin von Falkenhausen (The Influence of Sigmund Freud’s Clark Lectures on American Concepts of the Self), Stuart Noble (Don DeLillo and Society’s Reorientation to Time and Space: An Interpretation of Cosmopolis), Rosi Smith (Seeing Through the Bell Jar: Distorted Female Identity in Cold War America), and art contributions by Jonathon Dore, Myronn Hardy, David Mills, and Kathrin Zöller.

For more information on aspeers, please refer to www.aspeers.com < Less