On April 20, 2022, the New American Studies Journal: A Forum (NASJ) launched its first thematic issue "American Crises" with a new design and a new editorial board. The NASJ is also hosted by a new journal platform provided by Göttingen University Press.
Formerly the American Studies Journal (ASJ), the NASJ will build on a long tradition to address pressing issues in American studies and offer a forum for intellectual exchange.
We invite you to explore the relaunch issue which discusses contemporary crises, studies US publics and counterpublics, and considers the limitations of the concept “crisis”.
It features contributions by co-author of The Madwoman in the Attic Sandra M. Gilbert, US Poets Laureate Rita Dove and Robert Pinsky, Lecia Brooks of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Jane Desmond, Barbara Elias, Martín Espada, Matthew Feldman, Margaret Ferguson, Andrew Gross, Ellen Hinsey, Karen Korematsu, Jake Lamar, Andrew Majeske, Pap Ndiaye, Julia Nitz, Joel Richard Paul, Jennifer Reich, Kim Stanley Robertson, Andrea Ross, Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saueis, David Simpson, Niki Thorne, and Babette Tischleder.
Upcoming issues will incorporate additional forms of scholarly communication such as symposia, lecture recordings, and thematic podcasts.
The current Editorial Board members are Andrew Gross, Ellen Hinsey, Andrew Majeske, Karin Hoepker, Maria Moss, Gulsin Ciftci, James Dowthwaite, Julia Nitz, and Wiebke Kartheus. The journal runs on the open-source OJS software, and content is produced in SciFlow's innovative writing environment. Göttingen University Press, which SUB Göttingen runs as the university's own publishing house, is responsible for technical operation, dissemination in scholarly reference systems, and formal quality assurance. The team of the SUB Electronic Publishing Group has closely accompanied the migration process of the NASJ since 2015 and supported it on organizational, editorial, and technical levels.