Amerikastudien

Aims & Scope

The journal is devoted to an interdisciplinary concept of American Studies and covers all areas from literary and cultural criticism, history, political science, and linguistics to the teaching of American Studies in the classroom.

Thematic issues alternate with regular ones.

In addition to reviews of and review essays on major publications, the review section also features regular surveys of the contributions of German-language scholars to American Studies.

The second issue of each volume contains a yearly bibliography of publications in American Studies from German-speaking countries.

Universitätsverlag Winter also publishes the American Studies monograph series.

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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.

• Anti-Blackness in Education and the Possibilities of Redress: Toward Educational Reparations

  Citation: 10

  Authors: k.m.

• Archives of Resistance: Picturing the Black Americas

  Citation: 3

  Authors: D., J., R.F.

• Indigenizing Education with the Game “When Rivers Were Trails”

  Citation: 3

  Authors: E., N.

• Territoriality and Surveillance: Defensible Space and Low-Rise Public Housing Design, 1966-1976

  Citation: 3

  Authors: P.A.

• Abandoning Time: Black Nihilism and the Democratic Imagination

  Citation: 2

  Authors: C.

• Common Grounds?—A Preface

  Citation: 2

  Authors: C.

• Thomas Jefferson’s New Old World: The Development of “Europe” as a Political Concept in Jefferson’s Political Thought

  Citation: 2

  Authors: A.

• Committed Writing as Common Ground: Jesmyn Ward’s Poetics of Breathing While Black

  Citation: 2

  Authors: L.

• Digitization, Digital Humanities, and American Studies

  Citation: 2

  Authors: I.

• Again and Again and Again

  Citation: 2

  Authors: S.