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JAAAS Special Issue “Versions of America”

We are pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of the Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAAS). JAAAS is based at the University of Innsbruck (Editor-in-Chief: Cornelia Klecker). The special issue “Versions of America” was guest-edited by Matthias Klestil and Marijana Mikić and includes an essay on versioning through erasure poetry by Mahshid Mayar.

In the face of a new urgency to address the (potential of) multiplicity in a post-pandemic United States that lays open deep societal divides, this special issue sets out to examine the United States through its versions. What is the potential of (re-)thinking our objects of study through versions, versionality, and versional narration, if we take versioning as acts of reality-making, and explore such acts in relation to concepts of narrative, discourse, speculation? If we conceptualize versionality beyond the human, through environmental and material perspectives, or in relation to climate change? Or if we self-consciously theorize our activities as American studies scholars within (or as) versioning? Contributions explore the aesthetics, epistemologies, and politics of versioning.

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QUEER JOURNEYS IN NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

QUEER JOURNEYS IN NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

This two-day conference will consider the diverse ways in which journeys undertaken by queer people have been represented in North American literature and culture, as well as how queer journeys interact with and impact social structures, transnational relations, and cultural forms. LGBTQ+ people in North America and beyond continue to experience forms of mobility characterized by complex and often fraught economic, cultural, and affective dynamics. Queer journeys may contain forms of movement that are voluntary or involuntary, joyful or exploitative, expansive or inhibiting, normative or deviant. This conference will consider such queer mobilities through an interdisciplinary lens that includes literary and cultural studies, media studies, gender and queer studies, history, and the social sciences. 
More information available on the conference website:  QUEER JOURNEYS IN NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

14th and 15th November 2025| Claudiana, University of Innsbruck| Benjamin Robbins, Devon Anderson and Matthias Klestil

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