News

February 4, 2020
Congratulations! Albert Laguna is the recipient of the 2020 LARR-Pitt Best Article Award for his article “Before the Thaw: The Transnational Routes of Cuban Popular Culture” ...
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January 7, 2020
In honor of Hazel Carby and her most recent publication, Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands (Verso, 2019), this conference assembles a group of thinkers, writers, and...
January 2, 2020
Bench Ansfield is a PhD candidate in American studies at Yale University. In March 2020 their article, “The Broken Windows of the Bronx: Putting the Theory in Its Place,”...
December 11, 2019
American Studies Holiday Reception will be held on December 11th at 4:00 p.m. in Davenport College, Common Room area.
November 6, 2019
Candace Borders, a second year PhD student in American Studies and African American Studies, received an award this month for a paper presented at the National Conference of...
November 1, 2019
I write with the wonderful news that Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas, a volume co-edited by Ned Blackhawk and Isaiah Lorado Wilner (recent Ph.D.,...
September 4, 2019
Congratulations! Contemporary Literature’s editors have selected Albert Laguna’s  essay, “Edgardo Vega Yunqué and the Comedy of Race,” volume 59, number 3 as the winner...