David Simon's American City

By Mikkel Jensen (Aalborg University)

For more information see Manchester UP.

Transatlantic Currents: Essays in Honor of David E. Nye

Jørn Brøndal, Anne Mørk, Kasper Grotle Rasmussen (eds.)

This collection of articles is as a tribute to David E. Nye. 

For purchasing options see Winter Verlag.

Civil War Settlers

Anders Bo Rasmussen, Associate Professor, SDU

Civil War Settlers is the first comprehensive analysis of Scandinavian Americans and their participation in the US Civil War.

For purchasing options please visit Cambridge University Press. Discount code CWS2022.

Seven Sublimes

David Nye, Professor Emeritus, SDU

A reconception of the sublime to include experiences of disaster, war, outer space, virtual reality, and the Anthropocene.

For purchasing options please visit MIT Press.

Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth

Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund and Johan Höglund

Embracing pop cultural phenomena like True Detective, Jaws, and Twin Peaks, as well as topics from the New Weird and prehistoric shark fiction to ruin porn and the “monstroscene,” Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth demonstrates the continuing vitality of the Gothic while opening important new paths of inquiry. These essays map a genealogy of the Gothic while providing fresh perspectives on the ongoing climate chaos, the North/South divide, issues of racialization, dark ecology, questions surrounding environmental justice, and much more.

For purchasing options please visit University of Minnesota Press.

The New Cinematic Weird

Steen Ledet Christiansen

The book engagingly shows how creepy, unsettling, ominous, uneasy, and eerie atmospheres provide a way into the weird experience. This book is important to anyone interested in the audiovisual weird, cinematic atmospheres, how audiovisual media produce worlds, and how weird fiction challenges our conception of the way the world is.

For purchasing options please visit Rowman & Littlefield.

American Studies in Scandinavia 55:2

American Studies in Scandinavia is now fully digital. 

Check out the current issue, along with all previous issues, here.

CFP: NAAS CONFERENCE

The conference theme is: Aspirations

The 28th Biennial NAAS Conference in Turku, Finland

June 4-6, 2025

CFP: Deadline: June 15, 2024

Conference Website