JAAAS - Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies

JAAAS - Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies The Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAAS; ISSN 2616-9533) is a peer-revie JAAAS is powered by Open Journal Systems.

The Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAAS; ISSN 2616-9533) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal which creates an interdisciplinary space for debate on all aspects of American studies. It functions as a forum for Americanists in Austria and the global academic community. Published twice a year, the journal welcomes submissions on a wide range of topics, aiming to broaden

the multi- and interdisciplinary study of American cultures. JAAAS does not charge any article-processing charges (APCs). JAAAS is supported by the Austrian Association for American Studies and hosted and supported by the University of Graz, Austria. JAAAS is published twice a year, in the spring and in the fall. Open-access content is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

31/12/2024

More Gen Z workers are going into trades as disenchantment with the college track continues, and rising pay and new technologies shine up plumbing and electrical jobs.

Read more: 🔗 https://trib.al/xprED8A

30/12/2024
29/12/2024

Dear All, did you know that together with our sibling group Speculative Texts and Media Research Group, and American Studies Center as a whole we're doing a conference in May '25 on Forgotten Speculations?!! Check the CFP and come to Warsaw in May! (And yes, of course we'll be extending the deadline, we're not monsters!)

28/12/2024

Professor Dr. Bonney MacDonald will lead a literary workshop on the theme of Speaking of Horses: Essays, Fiction, and Film on Equine Partnerships.

28/12/2024

To kill the dining room is to design American loneliness, M. Nolan Gray wrote in June. https://theatln.tc/QcE44lJt

“The dining room is the closest thing the American home has to an appendix—a dispensable feature that served some more important function at an earlier stage of architectural evolution,” Gray writes. Classic, walled-off dining rooms now gather dust waiting for the next holiday. Americans have taken to eating in spaces “that double as kitchens or living rooms—a small price to pay for making the most of their square footage.”

But in many new apartments, “eating is relegated to couches and bedrooms, and hosting a meal has become virtually impossible,” Gray writes. “The apex predator of the dining room is the ‘great room’—a combined living room and kitchen, bridged by an open dining space.” And that’s what people want. Surveys from 2015 and 2016 show that “86 percent of households want a combined kitchen and dining room—a preference accommodated by only 75 percent of new homes,” Gray continues. “If anything, the classic dining room isn’t dying fast enough for most people’s taste.”

“The transition from the classic dining room to the great room mirrors the changes in gender norms and family formation that have occurred over the past 125 years,” Gray writes. Sectioned-off rooms “were designed around creating a separate sphere for ‘the help,’” or, when unaffordable, the women in the family.

But now, people are reallocating their limited square footage to maximize personal space—walk-in closets, or bigger bedrooms, especially for those living alone or with roommates. “As households and dining spaces have contracted, the number of people eating alone has grown,” Gray continues. “According to a 2015 report by the Food Marketing Institute, nearly half the time we spend eating is spent in isolation, a central factor in America’s loneliness epidemic and a correlate to a range of physical- and mental-health problems.”

“How many more dinners would be shared if we had the space to host guests?"

📸: Carolyn Drake / Magnum

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Interrogating the notion of "America" and looking at the U.S. within its transnational and (trans-)hemispheric interconnections, JAAAS wants to challenge disciplinary boundaries by bringing together original and innovative work by scholars who focus on topics as diverse as literature, cultural studies, film and new media, visual arts, ethnic studies, indigenous studies, performance studies, q***r studies, border studies, mobility studies, age studies, game studies, and animal studies. Apart from offering insights into trans- and international American literary and cultural studies and offering European perspectives on America, the journal also seeks scholarship that deals with history, music, politics, geography, ecocriticism, race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, law, and any other aspect of American culture and society.

JAAAS welcomes submissions from new, emerging, and established scholars on various topics related to American culture (literature, film, television, visual arts, etc.). Although scholars working in the broad field of American Studies are the expected primary authors, anyone conducting research on American culture is encouraged to submit a proposal.

Work that meets the following prerequisites is likely to be a good fit for JAAAS:


  • It is original scholarship, neither previously published in English nor under consideration elsewhere, with a compelling argument;