Current Series:
U.S. Television, Nostalgia, Memory, and Identity
June 2021. Co-edited by Will Carroll and Mairi Power- Series Introduction, by Will Carroll and Mairi Power
- Watchmen and Hunters: Reading Nostalgia, Repair, and Heroism in American Historical Fiction, by Aanchal Vij
- When Mariah met Lutie – Luke Cage, The Street and the cultural capital of TV comic adaptation, by Deborah Snow Molloy
- Eliminating “Blood and Thunder” from Containment Culture: Audience Efforts to Censor Postwar Radio Programming in the Run-Up to Television, by Catherine Martin
- “The Only Way Forward Is Back” – Nostalgia, Grief and Television in WandaVision, by Sabrina Mittermeier
- Mirroring the Medium: Depictions of Female Domesticity in ‘WandaVision’, by Emilie Cunning
- The Mandalorian: The Latest Space Western Series in a New Era of American Television, by Aidan Dolby
- Quantum Leap: Jukebox Nostalgia and the Flattening of History, by Fraser Hammond
- “Be Curious, Not Judgemental.” Influences of Positivity and Kindness in Ted Lasso, by Lewis Kellett
- ‘Brings Back Some Memories’: Textual and metatextual experiences of nostalgia in Twin Peaks: The Return, by Briac Picart-Hellec
- “Heeere’s Johnny!”…Again…and Again…: Pluto TV and the Continued Presence of Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, by Laura C. Brown
Past Series:
Hollywood in the Age of Trump: A Retrospective Analysis
April 2021. Guest Edited by Thomas Cobb- Series Introduction, by Thomas Cobb
- Culture Shock: Representing border discourses and practices in the Trump era, by Anna Marta Marini
- Assassination Nation, Young Female Anger and Futurity in the Wake of Trump’s America, by Danielle Cameron
- The Golden Years: Hollywood’s Fairy Tale History in the Age of Donald Trump, by Ciaran Leinster
- Playing Paranoid in The Lighthouse, by Sarah Collier
- “The Greatest Infomercial in Political History”: A Presidency in the Age of Entertainment, by Olga Thierbach-Mclean
Asian American Solidarities in the Age of COVID-19
March 2021. Guest Edited by Harriet Stilley- Series Introduction, by Harriet Stilley
- “We Are Not A Virus”: Challenging Asian/Asian American Racism in the 21st Century, by Melody Yunzi Li
- Covid-19 Triumphalism in China’s 2020 Docudramas, by Sheng-Mei Ma
- Fear is a Virus: Xenophobia in Mostafa Keshvari’s Corona (2020), by Jana Fedtke
- “Come almost home”: Deconstructing the Asian American Model Minority Myth in Chang-Rae Lee’s A Gesture Life, by Phenix Kim
America Now
February 2021- Series Introduction
- Not Your Grandparents’ Grand Strategy: Rethinking Liberal Hegemony, by Ellis Mallett
- Faith-healer parents, child brides, and 12-year-old Tobacco pickers, by Jack Hodgson
- Reality Check or Business as Usual? COVID-19 and the future of US Capitalism, by Olga Thierbach-McLean
- (Re)Constructing the Past in George Saunders’ ‘CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, by Emma Woodhead
2020 U.S. Election Series
January 2021. Edited by Amanda Niedfeldt- Series Introduction, by Amanda Niedfeldt
- “Born in the USA”: Birtherism and the US Presidency, by Connie Thomas
- MAGA, White Evangelicals and the Objection to Kamala Harris, by Carol Grose
- “I’d Rather Vote for a Tuna Fish Sandwich”: Never Trumpers and the 2020 Presidential Election, by Emily Hull
- Trump and the Republican Party—Precessors and Limits, by Tom Packer
- Political Identity in the Crossroads of America: Swing States, Campaign Presence, and Presidential Outcomes, by Molly Becker
- Mom-in-Chief: Jill Biden, Melania Trump and the Rhetoric of Motherhood in First Lady Campaigning, by Elizabeth Rees
- From Trinity to Trump: The Politics of Nuclear Memory in the 2020 Election, by Timothy Peacock
- Old Dog, Old Tricks: America’s Exhaustion with Donald Trump’s Divisive Rhetoric, by Ben Quail
- The Dragon’s Back: China, US Foreign Policy and the 2020 Election, by Quintin Newman
Memorials and Popular Memory
December 2020. Guest Edited by Anne Stokes- Series Introduction, by Anne Stokes
- ‘The Place, The Circumstances, The Remembrance’: The Performative Nature of Irish-American Civil War Memory and Memorialisation, by Catherine Bateson
- Memory as Superpower in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer, by Isabel Kalous
- ‘You will find us still in cages’: Re-narrativizing African American History at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, by Shona Thompson
- The Exhibit That Bombed: The Enola Gay Controversy and Contested Memory, by Mattias Eken
- “Do Not Forget your Dying King”: Oliver Stone’s JFK and Popular Memory, by Samuel Taylor
- Sound, The Second-Line, and the Politics of Post-Katrina Memory, by Jay Jolles
- The Toppling of Þorfinnur: Vandalism as Dialogue and Direct Action, by Jodie Childers
- “MATTER IS THE MINIMUM”: Reading Washington, DC’s BLM Memorial Fence, by Oline Eaton
Spaces of Empire
November 2020. Guest Edited by Mahshid Mayar- Series Introduction, by Mahshid Mayar
- Summer Camps and US Empire, by Mischa Honeck
- The Un/Incorporated, Continental, Overseas, Global States of America: The Grammar of Jurisdictional Incongruence in US Imperialism, by Jens Temmen
- Spaces of Empire: Two Early Modern Views from both sides of the Atlantic, by Philipp Reisner
- Keeping Disaster at Bay: Securing the Climate Threat in “America’s Mediterranean”, by Sarah Earnshaw
- A Brief Consideration of the American Empire Through Modern and Contemporary Poetry, by Mandana Chaffa
- “Eternal Confusions in Another World”: American Captives and Imperial Vulnerability in Algiers, by Elena Furlanetto
- American Catholicism and Empire: A Review Essay, by Philipp Reisner
- “They Need Us and They Want Us”—Erecting the Empire in the Vietnam War, by Jannik Vandre
- Playing With, Not Against, Empires: Video Games and (Post)Colonialism, by Stefan Schubert
- Live Human Exhibits: The World Columbian Exposition as a Space of Empire, by Carmen Dexl