RIAS: Review of International American Studies

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Review of International American Studies (RIAS) is the electronic journal of the International American Studies Association, the only worldwide, independent, non-governmental association of American Studies. RIAS serves as agora for the global network of international scholars, teachers, and students of America as hemispheric and global phenomenon. The present system, catering to the needs of Americanists worldwide, has been optimized for Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and MS Internet Explorer 6.0.
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Dr Nick Selby appointed as Editor of Comparative American Studies journal from 2008	2008/02/25 22:06
25th February 2008, Leeds, UK Dr Nick Selby appointed as Editor of Comparative American Studies journal from 2008 Maney Publishing has announced the appointment of Dr Nick Selby as the new Editor of Comparative American Studies in 2008. Dr Selby will take over from issue 3 this year. Senior Lecturer in the School of American Studies, University of East Anglia, Nick Selby has a wide range of research interests, with poetry of the twentieth century at the core of his research. As well as focusing on American experimental poetry, avant-gardism and the issue of what constitutes an American poetics, his current interests also include transatlantic connections in British experimental poetry, and theories of the ethics and politics of close-reading. Nick Selby is looking forward to his new role: “Comparative American Studies is now strongly established as a journal dedicated to challenging and developing the field of American studies. I'm absolutely delighted to be taking over as editor of the journal and aim to keep its investigation of America and its cultures, and its contribution to American studies, fresh, exciting and intellectually stimulating.” Contributions and ideas for papers or themed issues are welcomed and should be sent to: Dr Nick Selby, School of American Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK, or email n.selby@uea.ac.uk, and in North and South America and the rest of world to: Jane Desmond, The International Forum for US Studies (IFUSS), 226 International Center, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA, or email: jane-desmond@uiowa.edu. For more information on Notes for Contributors please visit www.maney.co.uk/journals/notes/cas Nick Selby succeeds Dick Ellis, Head of the Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham, who has edited the journal since 2003. A new Associate Editor will also be announced shortly, as Paul Giles retires after publication of the second issue. Jane Desmond continues as North American Editor. Both Dick Ellis and Paul Giles will remain on the journal’s Editorial Board, where their valued contributions and editorial experience will continue to benefit the journal. Comparative American Studies is an international journal which repositions discussions about American culture within an international, comparative framework by extending scholarly debate about American studies beyond the geographical boundaries of the United States. In this time of increasing globalization there is a growing need for American studies to be re-articulated in a comparative manner: first and foremost taking account of interactions between the USA and other parts of the world, whilst also fully attending to multi-ethnic comparisons within the USA. The main disciplines covered in the journal are literature, film, popular culture, photography and the visual arts. Attention is also given to history, the social sciences and politics, particularly insofar as these fields impact on cultural texts. For more information please visit: www.maney.co.uk/journals/cas. To sign up for free tables of contents alerts, please see www.maney.co.uk/online/tocs NOTES TO EDITORS Maney Publishing was founded in 1900 and has offices in Leeds and London in the UK, and in Boston and Philadelphia in North America. With a collection of nearly eighty journals in materials science, humanities, and healthcare and biomedicine, Maney is committed to publishing high-quality journals in print and electronic formats that are international in scope and peer-reviewed. Maney publishes extensively for learned societies, universities and professional bodies. Please visit www.maney.co.uk for more information. Media Contact Alison Holgate Marketing & PR Assistant Maney Publishing Email: a.holgate@maney.co.uk Press room: www.maney.co.uk/press

Refereed Issue of RIAS	2007/07/26 01:39
Dear Colleagues, It is my pleasure to announce that the first refereed issue of the Review of International American Studies is now available for download. The Special Issue, guest-edited by Cyraina E. Johnson-Rouillier, is dedicated to "The Cultural Significance of Modernity in the Americas," and offers articles by Stephen Spencer, Anita Patterson, Maureen Waters O'Neill, Karen Richman and Cyraina E. Johnson-Roullier. On behalf of the RIAS Editors' Team, it is my pleasure to extend my warmest thanks to all Colleagues who have generously contributed their texts, to all Referees, who reviewed the contributions, and to the Guest Editor of the issue, Cyraina E. Johnson-Rouillier for her wonderful work. With all my best regards, Pawel Jedrzejko Associate Editor, RIAS

Call for Contributions: RIAS Vol. 2, No. 2 (2007)	2007/01/09 18:49
Special Issue RIAS on ‘The Cultural Significance of Modernity in the Americas,’ guest edited by Cyraina Johnson-Roullier announced! Visit the Upcoming Issues section for more detailed information (or click this hyperlink).

Americas' Worlds and the World's Americas/Les mondes des Amériques et les Amériques du monde	2006/09/25 18:42
Americas' Worlds and the World's Americas/Les mondes des Amériques et les Amériques du monde The Proceedings of the 2nd International American Studies Association (IASA) World Congress held at the University of Ottawa, August 18-20 2005, are now available from the publisher. Les actes du colloque du 2ème congrès mondial de l'International American Studies Association (IASA) qui a eu lieu à l'Université d'Ottawa les 18, 19 et 20 août 2005 sont maintenant disponibles: Title/titre: Americas' Worlds and the World's Americas/Les mondes des Amériques et les Amériques du monde (dir. Amaryll Chanady, George Handley, Patrick Imbert ed.), Ottawa, University of Ottawa/Université d'Ottawa/Legas, 2006, 584 p. The book features 52 texts plus an introduction and the President's Report./L'ouvrage comprend 52 textes plus une introduction et le rapport du Président. Price/Prix: for Canadians/pour les Canadiens: 42.40 $ Canadian dollars/42.40 $ dollars canadiens (including taxes/incluant les taxes) plus postage/plus frais de poste = 50.00 $ Canadian dollars/50.00 dollars canadiens. Non-Canadians/non Canadiens: 40.00$ Canadian dollars/40.00 dollars canadiens (no tax/pas de taxe) plus postage/plus frais de poste = 50.00 $ Canadian dollars/50.00 dollars canadiens (about/environ 47.00 US dollars). Send your order to/envoyer vos commandes à: LEGAS 3 Wood Aster Bay, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2R 1B3. 0r to/ou bien à lsbrocchi@rogers.com

Inaugural Issue of RIAS	2006/09/05 20:54
We are pleased to inform you that the inaugural issue of RIAS is now available entirely free of charge. Please register on this website using “guest” as a temporary login name and password. The issue contains interesting and provocative contributions by Djelal Kadir, Kousar J. Azam, Sonja Torres, Jane Desmond, Sheila Hones, Helmbrecht Breinig, Manju Jaidka, Giorgio Mariani, Tatsushi Narita, Gönül Pultar, Cyraina Johnson-Roullier, Stephen Shapiro, and Paulo Knauss. Those who are not yet a member of IASA are most warmly encouraged to join the association, so as to continue to enjoy access to all further, password-protected issues of our journal, as well as to other online facilities of the IASA websites. Michael Boyden and Paweł Jędrzejko

RIAS Website Operational	2006/09/05 19:55
Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends, It is with greatest pleasure that we hereby announce that the RIAS website is now fully operational and ready for the launch of the first issue of our journal. We are especially grateful to Tomasz Adamczewski and Wojciech Liber of the Soft for Humans CMS Design Company for their creative contribution to the IT design of the website, as well as to Karolina Wojdała, our graphic artist, for the artistic design of RIAS Journal. IASA Members are hereby welcome to log in with their IASA logins and passwords (the same logins and passwords which you use to access the IASA Internet Center for thought Exchange); Non-IASA Contributors are welcome to register as writers via registration form in the approppriate subsection of the "Submitting texts" section of our website. With all our best regards, The Editors