European Journal of American Culture *Open Call for Papers*

The European Journal of American Culture (EJAC) is an academic, peer-reviewed journal for scholars, academics and students from many disciplines with a common involvement in the interdisciplinary study of America and American culture, drawing on a variety of approaches and encompassing the whole evolution of the country.

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The EJAC is currently looking for individual articles (circa 6,000–8000 words) and special issues on any area of American culture. That includes literature, film, television, visual cultures of all kinds, history, politics and more. We want your pieces on comics, graphic novels, video games, photography, music, etc. We are also happy to publish works that are image-heavy, so all visual culture work is welcome. Our remit is broad, and articles may approach their particular subject matter from one discipline or from several, but American culture is vital to the journal. 

We also welcome other kinds of work, including brief essays or roundtables on new cultural phenomena, books, or conferences; essays on American culture methodologies; or just more innovative journal article formats. 

In addition to the above, we are currently soliciting short articles for a new series about ‘Teaching American Culture’. We want to publish short pieces – around 1 to 3,000 words – that engage with some aspect of teaching American culture in its broadest sense. As such, we are looking for succinct writing that explores classroom ideas, practice, and theory. The pieces should focus on American culture such as: literary texts and broader print culture; theatre, film and television; music; video games; visual art, etc. If you are interested in contributing something not on this list, get in touch. 

These pieces might take the form of:

• An overview of a teaching activity
• An assessment outline
• A syllabus innovation
• A learning and teaching strategy
• An engagement with pedagogic theory in a particular context
• A vignette about a specific teaching moment
• A ‘how-to’ approach to teaching specific texts
• Engagement with cultural texts that are seen to be ‘difficult’, ‘confusing’, or ‘boring’
• A reflective account of your practice
• A dialogue between multiple teachers, or with students
• A speculative essay about the future of our field(s)
• And much more

You should submit your pieces to the journal via the Intellect submission link (https://www.intellectbooks.com/submit/european-journal-of-american-culture), or get in touch with the journals co-editors, Professor John Wills (j.wills@kent.ac.uk) and Dr Harriet Stilley (harrietstilley@btinternet.com), to discuss in more detail.

Alongside our articles and essays, we are regularly looking for reviewers. We have a long list of books currently available for review, but we also encourage you to get in touch if you want to review a new text – whether an academic title, or a new novel, film, television series, video game, or something else. We want your reviews on all media! To find out more about what books we have available, please contact the journal's reviews editor, Aidan Dolby (aidandolby@outlook.com).