The committee is unanimous in its decision to award this year’s Robert K. Martin prize for best book published by a CAAS member in the previous calendar year to Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia by Dr. Y-Dang Troeung (Temple University Press). In her book, Troeung stages a carefully argued consideration of the transnational impact of the Cold War, specifically in relation… Read more →
As a result of the excellence of the following two articles, the Redekop Prize Committee has chosen David Janzen’s article “Petrocultural Formations: Crisis Discourse, Energy Geographies, and Neo-liberalism” and Ira Wells’s article “‘Don’t Pray for Me, Pray for Them!’: Norman Jewison’s In the Heat of the Night and Hollywood “Redneckification” of Anti-Black Racism,” both appearing in the 53.3 issue of… Read more →
The Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS) is deeply saddened by the recent passing of Priscilla “Percy” Walton, our long-time Treasurer, and editor of the Canadian Review of American Studies for the past 25 years. Percy was a valued member of CAAS, supporting and advancing the careers of many junior faculty. She was generous with her time, advice, and letters of… Read more →
“On Bothering” is an interdisciplinary American Studies conference, hosted by Concordia University and the Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS). It will take place at Concordia University in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke from October 4th-6th, 2024 CONFERENCE INFORMATION: Program: You can find the conference program here: PROGRAM Location: The conference will be held on Concorida University’s downtown campus (1440 Maisonneuve Boulevard West Montreal,… Read more →
Dissensus is not a confrontation between interests or opinions. It is the demonstration (manifestation) of a gap in the sensible itself. Jacques Rancière Symposium (hybrid) | Trent University | Peterborough ON, Canada | October 30, 2023 In cooperation with: Materialities Research Group, Canadian Comparative Literature Association (complit.ca) Cultural Studies Graduate Programs, Trent University (trentu.ca) English M.A. – Public Texts Graduate… Read more →
Redekop prize winner (2021) The committee charged with selecting the winner of this year’s Redekop Prize for the best essay in volume 51 (2021) of the Canadian Review of American Studies have decided to give the award to Mason Wales, a PhD candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at York University in Toronto, for her essay, “’We Couldn’t Do That Even if We Wanted To’: Family and Natality in Veep and House… Read more →
2019-20 Robert K. Martin Prize Announcement The Robert K. Martin prize is awarded to the best book published by a CAAS member in the previous calendar year. WINNER FOR 2019-20: Jason Demers for The American Politics of French Theory: Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault in Translation (University of Toronto Press). This year the committee is pleased to award the prize to Jason Demers… Read more →
Tall Tales and Urban Legends in American Literature Canadian Association for American Studies Conference, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS, September 22-24, 2023 Organized by Ross Bullen (OCAD University) and Jasleen Singh (University of Toronto) November 1st, 2022 In American Humor: A Study of National Character (1931), Constance Rourke describes the tall tale as a “scattered” genre that necessarily exists… Read more →
CAAS 2023: WEST BY NORTHEAST, 22-24 September 2023 “West by Northeast” is an interdisciplinary conference, hosted by Mount Saint Vincent University and the Canadian Association for American Studies. It will take place in online (virtually) on 22-24 September 2023. In his 1893 address in front of the American Historical Association during the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Frederick Jackson Turner asserted,… Read more →