American Studies as Transnational Practice

YUAN SHU is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Texas Tech University. DONALD E. PEASE is professor of English and the Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth College.

Contributors include: EVA CHERNIAVSKY is Andrew R. Hilen Professor of American Literature and Culture and affiliated faculty in Women's Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Incorporations: Race, Nation, and the Body Politics of Capital (University of Minnesota Press, 2006) & That Pale Mother Rising: Sentimental Discourses and the Imitation of Motherhood in 19th-C America (Indiana University Press, 1995). SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN is professor of English and American Studies at Stanford University. She is the author The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on his Life and Work (Library of America, 2010); Mark Twain's Book of Animals (University of California Press, 2009); "Is He Dead?" A New Comedy by Mark Twain (University of California, 2003) PAUL GILES is Professor of American Literature, Faculty of English, University of Oxford and author of; Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature (Oxford University Press, 2006); Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2002) ALFRED HORNUNG is Professor of English and American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg-Universitt Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany and author of; American Lives and Ecology and Life Writing (American Studies - a Monograph Series, Universittsverlag, 2013 WALTER MIGNOLO is William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature at Duke University and has joint appointments in Cultural Anthropology and Romance, His recent publications include: The Idea of Latin America (2005), Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes, co-edited with Elizabeth H. Boone (1994), and The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, Colonization (1995) which won the Katherine Singer Kovacs prize from the Modern Languages Association. VIET THANH NGUYEN is an associate professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002). DONALD PEASE is professor of English, Geisel Chair of the Humanities, Chair of the Dartmouth Liberal Studies Program, He is the co-editor of American Renaissance Rediscovered and the editor of seven other volumes including The Futures of American Studies, which was published by Duke University Press. Professor Pease is general editor of a series of books by Duke University Press called "The New Americanists." RAFAEL PEREZ-TORRES is chair and professor of the English department at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the author of Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2006); Movements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins (Cambridge University Press, 1995); co-author of To Alcatraz, Death Row and Back: Memories of an East L.A. Outlaw (University of Texas Press, 2005. JOHN CARLOS ROWE is USC Associates Professor of the Humanities and Chair of the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is the author of The Cultural Politics of the New American Studies (University of Michigan/ Open Humanities Press, 2012); Afterlives of Modernism: Liberalism, Transnationalism, and Political Critique (Dartmouth Press, 2011); The New American Studies (University of Minnesota Press, 2002); Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism: From the Revolution to World War II (Oxford University Press, 2000) RAMON SALDIVAR is professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. His books include; The Borderlands of Culture: Amrico Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary (2006); Chicano Narrative: The Dialectics of Difference (1990); Figural Language in the Novel: The Flowers of Speech from Cervantes to Joyce (1984), YUAN SHU is associate professor of English at Texas Tech University. He has a new book under consideration titled, Empire