CFP: aspeers

Long time-friends of Containing Multitudes aspeers have got in touch with their new CFP. For those who aren't familiar, aspeers is:

the first and currently only peer-reviewed print journal for MA-level American studies scholars in Europe. It is a platform for the best work done by American studies graduate students below the PhD level. It aims to foster academic exchange among young Americanists across Europe, and to thereby advance the field as well as its genuine European perspective on ‘America’ and its presences and effects around the world. In addition to a general section, aspeers features a topical one that brings academic and creative works into a dialogue on one common theme.

So pay attention, postgrads. More from the CFP below.

For the general section of its fifth issue, aspeers seeks outstanding academic writing demonstrating the excellence of graduate scholarship, the range of concerns scrutinized in the field, and the diversity of perspectives employed. We thus explicitly invite revised versions of term papers or chapters from theses written by students of European Master (and equivalent) programs. For this section, there are no topical limitations. Contributions should be up to 10,000 words (including abstract and list of works cited). The submission deadline is 30 October 2011.

aspeers 5 (2012) will also contain a topical section organized around the theme “American Food Cultures.” We encourage European MA-level students to submit papers on this topic in particular. Please consult our topical Calls for Submissions for academic and art contributions at http://www.aspeers.com/2012.

For more information, our submission guidelines, and a timetable of the review process for this issue, please refer to http://www.aspeers.com/submit. Please direct questions and inquiries to info@aspeers.com.