[Commlist] EJAS (European Journal of American Studies): Call for book reviews

*EJAS (European Journal of American Studies): Call for book reviews*

EJAS (European Journal of American Studies) invites reviews of current 
books on topics relevant to American studies for publication in EJAS’ 
upcoming issues (vol. 18-19) due in 2023 and 2024.

Please send a review proposal (author, title, publisher, publishing date 
and place, number of pages), and CV (including the list of publications) 
to the book review editor, Dr. Kornelia Boczkowska ((kornelia /at/ amu.edu.pl) 
<mailto:(kornelia /at/ amu.edu.pl)>). We accept proposals on a rolling basis.

Authors of accepted proposals will be expected to write a book review 
(1000 words) and follow the MLA 8th edition style manual when preparing 
the manuscript.

EJAS is the official, peer-reviewed academic journal of the European 
Association for American Studies, a federation of 21 national and 
joint-national associations of specialists of the United States 
gathering approximately 4,000 scholars from 27 European countries 
(<http://www.eaas.eu <http://www.eaas.eu>>).

*Some suggested titles can be found below. Other proposals are also 
welcome provided that book publications are in English, pertain to 
American studies and have been published in 2022 or 2023.*

Climate Lyricism by Min Hyoung Song (Duke University Press, 2022)

Benjamin Franklin by Kevin J. Hayes (Reaktion Books, 2022)

After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America’s 
Stolen Lands by Margaret Jacobs (Princeton University Press, 2022)

Comprehending the Complexity of Countries: The Way Ahead (Springer, 2022)

"Beyond This Narrow Now" Or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois by Nahum 
Dimitri Chandler (Duke University Press, 2022)

American Torture from the Philippines to Iraq: A Recurring Nightmare by 
William L. d'Ambruoso (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Covering Muslims: American Newspapers in Comparative Perspective by Erik 
Bleich and A. Maurits van der Veen (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social 
Movements by Deva R. Woodly (Oxford University Press, 2022)

The Queer Biopic in the AIDS Era by Laura Stamm (Oxford University 
Press, 2022)

Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers, 
20th Anniversary Edition by Constance Valis Hill (Oxford University 
Press, 2022)

Laurie Anderson's Big Science by S. Alexander Reed (Oxford University 
Press, 2022)

Making Broadway Dance by Liza Gennaro (Oxford University Press, 2022)

White Men's Law: The Roots of Systemic Racism by Peter Irons (Oxford 
University Press, 2022)

The Rainbow after the Storm: Marriage Equality and Social Change in the 
U.S. by Michael J. Rosenfeld (Oxford University Press, 2022)

American Television during a Television Presidency edited by Karen 
McNally (Wayne State University Press, 2022)

The Florida Room by Alexandra T. Vazquez (Duke University Press, 2022)

WOMAN UP: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television by Julia Havas (Wayne 
State University Press, 2022)

Fundamentalism and American Culture (3rd ed) by George M. Marsden 
(Oxford University Press, 2022)

American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 (3rd ed) by Alec 
Wilder and Robert Awlins (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Americans in China: Encounters with the People's Republic by Terry Lautz 
(Oxford University Press, 2022)

The Third Option: Covert Action and American Foreign Policy by Loch K. 
Johnson (Oxford University Press, 2022)

What Happened to the Vital Center? Presidentialism, Populist Revolt, and 
the Fracturing of America by Nicholas Jacobs and Sidney Milkis (Oxford 
University Press, 2022)

Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential by Heba Gowayed (Princeton 
University Press, 2022)

A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American 
Environmentalism by Melissa Aronczyk and Maria I. Espinoza (Oxford 
University Press, 2022)

How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech by 
Jennifer Petersen (Duke University Press, 2022)

Renegotiating American Nationalism. The Proxy War over Marriage Equality 
through the Lens of Un-Americanism by Verena Reiter (Verlag, 2022)

Sonic Fictions of America. Literature and Popular Music in the U.S. 
1950–2010 by Carsten Schinko (Verlag, 2021)

Transatlantic Currents. Essays in Honor of David E. Nye, editec by Jørn 
Brøndal, Anne Mørk, Kasper Grotle Rasmussen (Verlag, 2021)

Perspectives on Homelessness edited by Anna Flügge and Georgia Tommasi 
(Verlag, 2022)

Cormac McCarthy, Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned by Patrick 
O’Connor (Edinburgh University Press, 2022)

What is American Literature? by Ilan Stavans (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Thomas 
Constantinesco (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Menergy: San Francisco's Gay Disco Sound by Louis Niebur (Oxford 
University Press, 2022)

John Dos Passos's Transatlantic Chronicling: Critical Essays on the 
Interwar Years edited by AARON SHAHEEN and ROSA MARÍA BAUTISTA-CORDERO 
(University of Tennessee Press, 2022)

Legal Spectatorship: Slavery and the Visual Culture of Domestic Violence 
by Kelli Moore (Duke University Press, 2022)

Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene edited by Justin 
Edwards, Rune Graulund, and Johan Höglund (University of Minnesota 
Press, 2022)

Democracy under Fire: Donald Trump and the Breaking of American History 
by Lawrence R. Jacobs (Oxford University Press, 2022)

How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern 
America by Nina M. Yancy (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Everyday Dirty Work: Invisibility, Communication, and Immigrant Labor by 
Wilfredo Alvarez (Ohio State University Press, 2022)

The Aspern Papers and Other Tales, 1884–1888 by Henry James edited by 
Rosella Mamoli Zorzi and Simone Francescato (Cambridge University Press, 
2022)

Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian 
American Masculinity by Takeo Rivera (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American 
South by David Silkenat (Oxford University Press, 2022)

The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson edited by Cristanne Miller and 
Karen Sánchez-Eppler (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Islamophobia and Acts of Violence: The Targeting and Victimization of 
American Muslims by Carolyn Turpin-Petrosino (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom: Teaching and 
Texts by Susan Norton and Laurence W. Mazzeno (Macmillan, 2022)

Pragmatist Feminism and the Work of Charlene Haddock Seigfried edited by 
Lee A. McBride III and Erin McKenna (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Civil War Settlers by Anders Bo Rasmussen (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

TV Snapshots: An Archive of Everyday Life by Lynn Spigel (Duke 
University Press, 2022)

Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream by Grant Wiedenfeld 
(Oxford University Press, 2022)

The Spook Who Sat by the Door by Sam Greenlee with an introduction by 
Natiki Hope Pressley (Wayne State University Press, 2022)

Scales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child by Mary Pat 
Brady (Duke University Press, 2022)

A Kiss across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk 
and US Latinidad by Richard T. Rodríguez (Duke University Press, 2022)

Law in American Meetinghouses: Church Discipline and Civil Authority in 
Kentucky, 1780–1845 by Jeffrey Thomas Perry (Johns Hopkins University 
Press, 2022)

On the Inconvenience of Other People by Lauren Berlant (Duke University 
Press, 2022)

Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago 
by Kemi Adeyemi (Duke University Press, 2022)

With Liberty and Justice for All? The Constitution in the Classroom 
edited by Steven A. Steinbach, Maeva Marcus, and Robert Cohen (Oxford 
University Press, 2022)

Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification 
by Richard F. Hirsh (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022)

The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment by Cameron 
Awkward-Rich (Duke University Press, 2022)

Cartographic Memory: Social Movement Activism and the Production of 
Space by Juan Herrera (Duke University Press, 2022)

The California Gothic in Fiction and Film by Bernice M. Murphy 
(Edinburgh University Press, 2022)

Colonial Racial Capitalism edited by Susan Koshy, Lisa Marie Cacho, Jodi 
A. Byrd, and Brian Jordan Jefferson (Duke University Press, 2022)

Rural Renaissance: Revitalizing America’s Hometowns through Clean Power 
by L. Michelle Moore (Island Press, 2022)

Peace and Friendship: An Alternative History of the American West by 
Stephen Aron (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Washington Square by Gert Buelens and Susan M. Griffin (Cambridge 
University Press, 2022)

Visitation: The Conjure Work of Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema by 
Jennifer DeClue (Duke University Press, 2022)

A Question of Standing: The History of the CIA by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones 
(Oxford University Press, 2022)

Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability by 
Vivian L. Huang (Duke University Press, 2022)

Visionary Company: Hart Crane and Modernist Periodicals by Francesca 
Bratton (Edinburgh University Press, 2022)

Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America: A Cultural History of the Early 1960s 
by Richard Aquila (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022)

Feminism in Coalition: Thinking with US Women of Color Feminism by Liza 
Taylor (Duke University Press, 2022)

The Oxford Handbook of the Hollywood Musical edited by Dominic 
Broomfield-McHugh (Oxford University Press, 2022)

The Making of White American Identity by Ron Eyerman (Oxford University 
Press, 2022)

Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment by 
Hi′ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart (Duke University Press, 2022)

Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship, the Racial Cold War, and 
Filipino America by Josen Masangkay Diaz (Duke University Press, 2023)

New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair by Jasmine Nichole Cobb 
(Duke University Press, 2022)

Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives edited by Eleanor Ty 
(Ohio State University Press, 2022)

Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary 
Work of Albion W. Tourgée edited by Sandra M. Gustafson and Robert S. 
Levine (Fordham University Press)

Deflective Whiteness: Co-Opting Black and Latinx Identity Politics by 
Hannah Noel (Ohio State University Press, 2022)

Misinformation Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in 
Revolutionary America by Jordan E. Taylor (Johns Hopkins University 
Press, 2022)

Adoption across Race and Nation: US Histories and Legacies edited by 
Silke Hackenesch (Ohio State University Press, 2022)

Live Music in America: A History from Jenny Lind to Beyoncé by Steve 
Waksman (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric by Virginia Jackson 
(Princeton University Press, 2023)

Uncomfortable Television by Hunter Hargraves (Duke University Press, 2023)

Framing the Nation, Claiming the Hemisphere: Transnational Imagination 
in Early American Travel Writing (1770–1830) (Stockholm University 
Press, 2022)

Sports and the American Presidency edited by Adam Burns and Rivers 
Gambrell (Edinburgh University Press, 2022)

Death's Futurity: The Visual Life of Black Power by Sampada Aranke (Duke 
University Press, 2023)

Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics by Michael Boyden 
(Oxford University Press, 2022)

Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature 
by Kelly Ross (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Fossil-Fuel Faulkner: Energy, Modernity, and the US South by Jay Watson 
(Oxford University Press, 2022)

Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past by Victor 
Szabo (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean by 
Carlos Ulises Decena (Duke University Press, 2023)

The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American 
Revolution by Andrew M. Wehrman (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023)

Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's 
Tenderloin by Joseph Plaster (Duke University Press, 2023)

Northern Ireland, the United States and the Second World War, by Simon 
Topping (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Militarization and the American Century: War, the United States and the 
World since 1941, by David Fitzgerald (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Marginalisation and Utopia in Paul Auster, Jim Jarmusch and Tom Waits: 
The Other America by Adriano Tedde (Routledge, 2022)

Beat Feminisms: Aesthetics, Literature, Gender, Activism by Polina 
Mackay (Routledge, 2022)

Rise of the Spectacular: America in the 1950s by John Hannigan 
(Routledge, 2021)

Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight edited by Jacob Agner & 
Harriet Pollack (University Press of Mississippi, 2022)

The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton by Stanley Corngold 
(Princeton University Press, 2022)

Democracy Lives in Darkness: How and Why People Keep Their Politics a 
Secret by Emily Van Duyn (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life by 
Scott Herring (Columbia University Press, 2022)

Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of 
Disability in the Philippines by Sony Coráñez Bolton (Duke University 
Press, 2023)

The Vital Dead: Making Meaning, Identity, and Community through 
Cemeteries by Alison Bell (University of Tennessee Press, 2023)

Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History by Mary M. Burke 
(Oxford University Press, 2023)

Oz and the Musical: Performing the American Fairy Tale by Ryan Bunch 
(Oxford University Press, 2023)

Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America by Stephen Bullivant 
(Oxford University Press, 2023)

The New Power Elite by Heather Gautney (Oxford University Press, 2023)

Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher 
Education by Bradford Vivian (Oxford University Press, 2023)

Dangerous Instrument: Political Polarization and US Civil-Military 
Relations by Michael A. Robinson (Oxford University Press, 2023)

Fighting Better: Constructive Conflicts in America by Louis Kriesberg 
(Oxford University Press, 2023)

America before 1787: The Unraveling of a Colonial Regime by Jon Elster 
(Princeton University Press, 2023)

The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the 
Brooklyn Waterfront by Cisco Bradley (Duke University Press, April 2023)

Monitoring American Federalism by Christian G. Fritz (Cambridge 
University Press, 2023)

Disappearing Rooms: The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law by Michelle 
Castañeda (Duke University Press, 2023)

Melville’s Wisdom: Religion, Skepticism, and Literature in 
Nineteenth-Century America by Damien B. Schlarb (Oxford University 
Press, 2021)

The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature by Peter J. 
Kalliney (Princeton University Press, 2022)

Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness by Marlon B. 
Ross (Duke University Press, 2022)

Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy by Leslie 
Bow (Duke University Press, 2022)

Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium by Mila Zuo (Duke 
University Press, 2022)

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