American Studies in the Age of New Area Studies

Clare Corbould is Associate Professor of History at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Hilary Emmett is Associate Professor in American Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. Sarah Garland is a writer and researcher at the New Area Studies Research Centre, University of East Anglia, UK. Malcolm McLaughlin is Professor of Cultural History at the University of East Anglia, UK. Thomas Ruys Smith is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of East Anglia, UK. John Wills is Professor in Film and Media at the University of Kent, UK, and co-editor of the European Journal of American Culture (Intellect).

• Introduction. Infinite Space: American Studies in the Age of New Area Studies 1. Entanglements: “The American Look”, Everyday Dress, New Area Studies and American Pragmatism 2. Where is New Area Studies? Multifocal Perspective in the Art of Fiona Foley. 3. Settler Colonial Keywords for New Area Studies: Land, Labour, and Language in Mark Twain’s Following the Equator (1897). 4. American Notes: Listening to America in Late Nineteenth Century Britain, Listening for New Area Studies 5. Hunting for New Area Studies: Transnational Animals and Transatlantic Fox Hunting Culture 6. A Place for New Area Studies: The Real and Imagined Landscapes of the American Frontier