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COPAS : Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies

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Good Mob, Bad Mob: Violence and Community in The Cattle Queen of Montana (1894)

Rose, David

Waging a Visual War on Poverty: President Lyndon B. Johnson in Appalachia

Fackler, Katharina

Event{u}al Disruptions: Postmodern Theory and Alain Badiou

Huber, Sebastian

Transatlantic Miscommunication in David Hare’s Drama Stuff Happens

Golimowska, Karolina

Re-writing ‘Woman’: New Woman Hybridity in Araki Iku’s “The Letter” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “Turned”

Khou, Carrie

The U.S. Filibusters in Transnational Newspaper Discourses, 1855-1857

Beer, Andreas

Blank Gaze and Vacant Skull—Cinema & Brain(s) & (Dis-)Affection in Recent Mindful and Mind-Related US Cinema

Betka, Benjamin

“I was a stuffed toucan”: Poetic Self-Positioning in Robert Lowell’s Life Studies

Brunner, Eva

Humor and Ambivalence in the Novels of Toni Morrison

Chirila, Silvia

“Confusions about the place and the way in which I grew up”: Place and Knowledge in Joan Didion’s Memoir Where I Was From

Wagner, Alexandra

The Romantic Veil (of Perception): American Transcendentalism and British Romanticism as a Continuation of Lockean Empiricism

Knirsch, Christian

“Welcome to Our Home!”: Staging Practices at Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House

Szlezák, Klara Stephanie

A Spiritual Homecoming: Ireland in Contemporary Movies about Irish Americans

Schein, Alexandra

Shifting Spaces in the Critical Regionalist Fiction of New England

Schulte, Marleen

‘Only Stones and Stories Remain’: Greek American (Travel) Writing about Greece

Kindinger, Evangelia

Building a Better Place: Utopianism and the Revision of Community in Toni Morrison’s Paradise

Harz, Verena

Unconventional Allies Reunited: Liberal Hawks and Neoconservatives at the Turn of the Century

Just, Peter

Camping with the Stars: Queer Perfomativity, Pop Intertextuality, and Camp in the Pop Art of Lady Gaga

Horn, Katrin

Ralph Waldo Emerson versus Cormac McCarthy: The Annihilation of Emerson’s Values in McCarthy’s The Road

Kestermann, Nora

Encountering the Familiarity of a Foreign Culture: Julie Dash's Novel Daughters of the Dust

Gerund, Katharina

In a Time-Warp: The Issue of Chronology in Siri Hustvedt’s The Blindfold

Knirsch, Christian

“They looked German, albeit with even tighter pants and uglier shoes, but there was something different about them”: The Function of East and West Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall in Paul Beatty’s Slumberland

Schweinfurth, Elisa

“A Lynching in Blackface”: The Representation of History and Fantasies of Black Male Violence in John E. Wideman’s The Lynchers

Dexl, Carmen

Arbitrary Ruptures: The Making of History in Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007)

Otten, Brite

Writing Jazz History: The Emergence of a New Genre

Dunkel, Mario

Hunger and Self-Fashioning in Richard Wright’s Black Boy and Knut Hamsun’s Sult

Rees, Daniel

Inherent Defeatism in Barry Hannah’s “The Agony of T. Bandini” and “Uncle High Lonesome”

Merkel, Julia

The Purloined Chamber: A Lacanian Reading of Richard Powers’s Plowing the Dark

Heil, Johanna

“Of Vampire Born”: Interracial Mothering in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction

L？ffler, Marie-Luise

Ambiguity and the Ethics of Reading Race and Lynching in James W. Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)

Dexl, Carmen

The Impact of Tribal Colleges in the Economic Development of Tribal Communities: A Case Study

Grob, Anne

Dystopia, Alternate History and the Posthuman in Bioshock

Schmeink, Lars

Depicting ‘Natural’ Disasters in U.S.-American History and Culture: San Francisco’s City Hall as an Icon of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire

Leikam, Susanne

Do the Photos Tell it All? Representing Torture in the Images from Abu Ghraib

Dauenhauer, Katrin

“Ruled By Fiction?” ‘Real’ Deception and Narrative Truth in Frank Rich’s The Greatest Story Ever Sold (2006)

Herrmann, Sebastian M.

“Stuff That Happened to Me”: Visual Memory in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005)

Siegel, Elisabteh

An Event “Like a Movie”? Hollywood and 9/11

Rickli, Christina

Challenging the Cultural Mosaic: Shani Mootoo's "Out on Main Street"

Schneider, Sebastian

"Timeless People": The Development of the Ancestral Figure in Three Novels by Alice Walker

Heczková, Jana

How the Other Half Dies: Narrating Identities in Shelley Jackson’s Half Life (2006)

P？hlmann, Sascha

"Children aren’t everything": Maternal Ambivalences in Nella Larsen’s Fiction Marie-Luise L ffler

L？ffler, Marie-Luise

The Organization Man Still Matters: Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt

Hartig, Marcel

Spoken Art: Amy Lowell's Dramatic Poetry and Early Twentieth-Century Expressive Culture

Knewitz, Simone

"Yo-ho, A Pirates Life For Me" – Queer Positionalities, Heteronormativity, and Piracy in Pirates of the Caribbean. A Queer Reading.

Steinhoff, Heike

"The Tube is Flickering Now": Aesthetics of Authenticity in Good Night, and Good Luck

Nitzsche, Sina

Battleground Masculinity: Gendertroublers and Gatekeepers in Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986)

Hein, Christina Judith

"The Tiger's Eyes Are Like My Own": Depictions of Japaneseness in Contemporary American Movies

Laemmerhirt, Iris-Aya

George Gustav Heye and the National Museum of the American Indian - Collecting the Collector

Zittlau, Andrea

The Spectacle of the Other: Representations of Chinatown in Michael Cimino’s Year of the Dragon (1985) and John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Bidlingmaier, Selma Siew Li

"…the white women all go for sex": Discourses of Gender, Race, Ethnicity in the American Woman’s Rights Movement, 1869

Bank, Michaela

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