We are excited to announce that starting from Spring 2023, the ASC’s New Americanist will be published with Edinburgh University Press in cooperation with the University of Warsaw.

We have worked hard to make this happen and the editorial staff would like to thank everyone who helped make this possible, and in particular, Professor Kość and Professor Basiuk, who have provided support from the very beginning and to Vice-Rector for Research Zygmunt Lalak who helped us realize this cooperation with Edinburgh.

Future issues of The New Americanist will be available on Edinburgh University Press website.

The New Americanist is an interdisciplinary journal publishing scholarly work on the United States and the Americas broadly considered. The journal is especially interested in work which includes a global perspective, introduces new critical approaches, and proposes theoretical frameworks to the study of the US.

Year 2023/2024

December 1: Screening & Discussion with Co-directors of ‘CURED’ documentary

December 1, 2023

The American Studies Center and the U.S. Embassy Warsaw invite you to a special private screening of the award-winning documentary CURED, which highlights a pivotal but little-known moment in LGBTQ history when activists and psychiatrists rose up to challenge a formidable institution — and won!

News

Changes in Dr. Gajda-Łaszewska’s office hours schedule

November 30, 2023

Dr. Gajda-Łaszewska’s office hours will be cancelled on Thursday, December 7, 2023.

American Studies Colloquium Series

November 30: Conceptual Writing in Extremis: Sonic A(na)rchives in 21st-century North American Poetry

November 30, 2023

The lecture focuses on current developments in North American conceptual writing as a poetic mode invested in archival research. The common denominator of the archives that the poets selected for this study foreground are the forms of present-day extremity.

American Studies Colloquium Series

November 16: New Forms/Known Rivers

November 16, 2023

When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era. Today, the hashtag turned rallying cry is but one expression of a radical reorientation toward Black politics, protest, and political thought.

Year 2023/2024

November 9: Scared Sick: Medicine and the Gothic Tradition

November 9, 2023

Join Weird Research Group for the second meeting of Weird Medicine Series! This talk will be grounded in the foundational Romantic period and will explain ways in which Gothic works reflected some of the most controversial medical pursuits, playing out their possibilities and dangers.