Digital Americas: Global Perspectives on American Narratives Online - 1st IASA Emerging Scholars’ Conference
Category: Event and publication
We invite scholars representing disciplines including, but not limited to, literary studies, (new) media, communication and game studies, cultural studies, international politics, ethnology, anthropology, sociology, religious studies, history, and cultural geography to contribute papers that explore the multifaceted nature of digital and/or online literature, both in the context of the US and of hemispheric and transoceanic relations of the Americas. Key Themes -Digital Humanities and American Studies: Exploring online/digital narratives of American politics -Digital literature in the context of environmental crises -The impact of social media (e.g., BookTok, Reddit, Wattpad) on the publication industry) -Emerging genres primarily developing online: This includes phenomena like ARGs, Two-Sentence Horror, and fanfiction. -The impact of AI and digital literature on the book market and scholarship across disciplines -The position of digital narratives in reinforcing or challenging forms of marginalization, particularly in relation to issues of representation, identity, access, digital literacy, and inclusion (across axes such as gender, race, class, ability, and sexuality) -Digital narratives of war and the Americas, including representations in video games and their cultural implications -Autonomous online literary spaces: the emergence of canons, anti-canons, and participative culture in the digital realm -Approaches to teaching and analyzing digital/online literature -Digital Literature Theory Best papers from the conference shall be published (subject to peer-review) in the Review of International American Studies (RIAS), a title of the University of Silesia Press (indexed in SCOPUS, ERIH+, ICV, and more).
Initiator(s):
International American Studies Association (IASA)
Deadline: 31.07.2025
Post created by: Lymor Wolf Goldstein