American Studies in Scandinavia

Aims & Scope

American Studies in Scandinavia, the journal of the Nordic Association for American Studies (NAAS) since 1968, is published twice each year, and carries scholarly articles and reviews on a wide range of American Studies topics and disciplines, including history, literature, politics, geography, media, language, diplomacy, race, gender, ethnicity, economics, law, culture and society.

Sponsored by the National Councils for Research in Science and the Humanities in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, the journal is published by University Press of Southern Denmark with the financial support of the Nordic Publications Committee for Humanist Periodicals.

The journal is currently edited by Anders Bo Rasmussen, Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark.

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Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

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• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Apc url
• License

Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• John Dos Passos's USA and Left Documentary Film in the 1930s: The Cultural Politics of "Newsreel" and "The Camera Eye"

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Juan A.

• The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century et al.

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Michael

• Americanization of a "Queer Fellow": Performin Jewishness and Sexuality in Abraham Cahan's 'The Rise of David Livinsky'

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Magdalena J.

• Sexual Politics of the Gaze and Objectification of the (Immigrant) Woman in Jhumpa Lahiri’s <i>Interpreter of Maladies</i>

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Moussa Pourya, Nurul Farhana Low, Md. Salleh

• Populism - A Brief Introduction to a Baffling Notion

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Niels

• Desert Pandemonium: Cormac McCarthy's Apocalyptic "Western" in 'Blood Meridian'

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Inger-Anne

• Emigration, Family and Kinship

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Sune, Bo, Thomas

• Guns on Campus: Surveying a rugged post-<i>Heller</i>/ McDonald landscape

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Leif Magne

• A City Upon a Hill: American Literature and the Ideology of Exceptionalism

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Thomas B.

• Sisu As a Central Marker of Finnish-American Culture: Stubbornness beyond reason

  Citation: 4

  Authors: Raija