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This is a fundamental resource for academic writing. It covers everything, from dissertations writing to emails to writing styles and citation guides.

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The Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAAS; ISSN 2616-9533) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal which creates an interdisciplinary space for debate on all aspects of American studies. It functions as a forum for Americanists in Austria and the global academic community. Published twice a year, the journal welcomes submissions on a wide range of topics, aiming to broaden the multi- and interdisciplinary study of American cultures.

Submission Link: https://jaaas.eu/index.php/jaaas/about/submissions

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As the journal's media proprietor, the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS) is very concerned about the protection of personal data and we treat all processed personal data confidentially and in compliance with the law.

The AAAS is responsible for personal data which are collected, stored, and processed on this website. The AAAS processes personal data only inosfar as this is necessary to ensure the functionality of this website and to provide our content and services.

Our data and privacy policies explain how we process personal data as part of this website and provide information on the nature, scope, purpose, and legal basis of the processing of personal data and the related data subjects.

This website is hosted on servers operated by the University of Graz.
II. Transmission of Your Personal Data
Your personal data will be processed by the journal's editorial board and the University of Graz (as our host); your data will not be transferred to other parties unless explicitly stated.
III. Storage Time
Your personal data will only be stored for as long as it is necessary in view of relevant legal provisions and as long as necessary for the fulfillment of the respective purpose.
IV. Your Rights
You are entitled to request information about the data stored about you, request correction of said data, deletion, restriction, transfer, revocation, and objection. You may assert these rights vis-à-vis the the journal's managing editor, as the representative of JAAAS, and the scretary of the AAAS, as its representative. Deletion requests may also be issued to the University of Graz as our host.

If you believe that the processing of your data violates applicable law or your data protection claims have been violated in any way, you may also file a complaint with the Austrian regulatory authority:

Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde
Barichgasse 40-42
1030 Wien
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+43 1 52 152-0
dsb@dsb.gv.at
V. Contact
Concerning the processing of and/or information about your personal data stored, you may contact the journal's managing editor

Michael Fuchs
University of Oldenburg
Department of English & American Studies
jaaas@michael-fuchs.info

or the current secretary of the AAAS

Stefan Rabitsch
stefan.rabitsch@uni-graz.at
VI. Using our Website
1. Description and Scope of Data Processing

When accessing our journal's website, the University of Graz's servers temporarily store access data in a log file. The following data are collected and stored until automated deletion occurs:

the IP address of the device accessing our online offers,

date and time of access,

URLs of the websites visited,

amount of data transferred,

information whether retrieval of requested data was successful,

identification data of the browser and operating system used,

website from which user was referred to our websites, and

name of your internet access provider.

2. Purpose of Data Collection

The processing of the abovementioned data is for the purpose of ensuring the proper operation of our journal, ensuring system security, and the technical administration of the network infrastructure. In addition, the data allows us to optimize our internet offerings and services. The IP address is only evaluated if attacks on our host's network infrastructure take place.

3. Legal Foundation

The processing of the data is carried out in accordance with the journal's interest to maintain its services and the university's legitimate interest to secure its internet services (see Art. 6, Abs. 1, lit f DS-GVO).
VII. Contact
1. Description and Scope

If you contact us (via email), we will process any information that you provide in order to process and respond to your request. These data minimally include:

2. Purpose of Data Processing

The processing of these data is for the purpose of processing and answering your request. The data will be stored up to six months (if there might be follow-up questions/requests) or the period we need to provide the services you ask for.

3. Legal Basis

See VI.3.
VIII. OJS
1. Description and Scope of Data Processing

For the administration and publication of JAAAS, we process the following personal data:

Only the user name, first name, last name, email address, and password fields are required. Registration date, last login date, and locality are automatically generated when you register with or log on to our platform.

In addition, OJS tracks workflow information, including

all actions taken on a submission, and by whom;

all notifications sent concerning a submission (including who sent and received the information);

all reviewer recommendations;

all editorial decisions;

all files uploaded as part of the submission process (which may contain personally identifying information--if users didn't properly delete this information prior to submission).

2. Purpose of Data Processing

The data are processed to publish and administer our journal, including peer review and publication. As is usual, your name and affiliation will be published alongside your submission if your submission is accepted for publication.

3. Storage

Your information is stored in a database hosted by the University of Graz. Only the user password is encrypted. Files uploaded as part of the submission process are stored directly on the university's web servers.

4. Availability and Access

The information stored about users (other than the information automatically generated) is accessible through their user profiles. System administrators and journal editors can also access and edit this data (FYI: only admins can edit data) and may download the data in XML format. Guest editors can access the information of users who submitted material to the issue the issue or thematic cluster they edit.

Concerning submissions, participants in the submission process have different levels of data access; system administrators and journal editors have access to all submission data; issue editors only to submissions to their respective issues/thematic clusters; authors have limited access to their own submissions and may only see data they have supplied or which editorial staff have made available to them.

5. General Visitor Information

OJS collects general visitor usage data (i.e., information by users not logged onto the platform), including:

cookie information, to manage session history (cookies are required to maintain a login session),

detailed usage log data, including IP address, pages visited, date visited, browser information (in anonymized fashion), and

country, region, and city information.

6. Cookies

Our journal webpage uses cookies to manage user sessions (for which they are required). Our platform does not use cookies if you do not log into a user account and simply visit the site and read content.

7. Legal Basis

See VI.3.
IX. External Indexing Services
1. Description and Scope of Data Processing

JAAAS submits the following data of published pieces to Crossref, ORCiD, and Google Scholar:

authors' first names,

authors' middle names,

authors' last names,

authors' ORCiD IDs,

authors' countries (of residence/work, whichever the authors provided), and

authors' affiliations.

Only the information the user provides in their user profile will be processed. Among the information transferred, only names are required fields to identify authors.

In addition, we submit metadata about your published work to Google Scholar and Crossref, including

submission title,

submission subtitle,

abstract,

keywords,

subjects,

volume published in,

issue published in,

year of publication,

pages,

DOI,

references, and

funding acknowledgments.

Data will only be transferred to ORCiD if a user linked their JAAAS profile to their ORCiD profile.

2. Purpose of Data Processing

The data are processed to index the articles published in our journal and thus make the articles and other submissions published more easily discoverable on the internet and through various scholarly indexing services. As such, the transfer of this information is also in the authors' best interest.

3. Availability and Access

The information we submit about published pieces will be stored by the respective systems. Please note that since JAAAS is open access, all of this information is also freely available on the JAAAS platform and may thus be harvested by search engines.

4. Legal Basis

See VI.3.

Last updated on January 6, 2021.

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As the journal's media proprietor, the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS) is very concerned about the protection of personal data and we treat all processed personal data confidentially and in compliance with the law. The AAAS is responsible for personal data which are collected, stored, and processed on this website.

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https://monoskop.org/Monoskop
A very interesting wiki-like website with a lot of free ebooks in many languages and other materials. Especially good for theory and philosophy.

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I'm working on a dissertation titled “The Representation of Masculinities in U.S. Blank Fictions.” It deals with the representation of masculinities and aging in a particular genre of U.S. fiction called ‘blank fiction’, which is a genre that emerged in the late 1980s and mostly deals with transgressive themes such as sex, violence, drug abuse. It also features typical post-moderns concerns such as consumerism, commodification, and urban environments. I’m in my second year of the PhD program.

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I’m in my first year of the PhD program, my current dissertation title is “Interamerican Perspectives on Exclusion and Inclusion”.
Besides my PhD studies, I am also working as a teacher and  I am therefore interested in narratives  that can be used in the classroom. I would like to combine a theoretical and empirical approach (e.g. interviews with students) in my research.

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I’m in the third year of my PhD studies and currently working on my dissertation titled  “Mediating Individual and Collective Identities: Paula Huntley, Alice Mead and American Perspectives of Kosovo." In short it focuses on how American authors Paula Huntley’s and Alice Mead’s individual and collective identities are mediated through different approaches and present insights into past trauma and present challenges on an individual and collective level regarding their analytical experiences in Kosovo.

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I’m officially in my first year (however, I spent last academic year in the U.S. and took some PhD classes) and my current dissertation title is: “Inter.Narratives: Developing a Didactic Feminist Approach” and it basically deals with developing an approach for education to negotiate intersections of identity drawing on feminist theory and using literary texts to illustrate how one can deconstruct social construct such as age, gender, race, and class.

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I’m in my seventh year (had a job for the most of my PhD, lived in two cities simultaneously, Covid did not help) and hopefully will be having my rigorosum at the end of this year or sometime next year. I am in the process of finishing my thesis, it is written for the most part, some chapters are still to do and the thesis needs a good polishing. My topic is African Caribbean families in Jamaica Kincaid and Edwidge Danticat’s works.

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Regarding the writing of the dissertation, I started with the analysis of the texts, trying to keep my theory in sight as I proceed. Is this a good way to start? Should I define my theory more clearly first? Should I begin with a literature review and leave the analysis for later? Do it all at the same time?

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Practical advice on getting published. Are there any differences where we should try to submit something? I believe open-access is the new shit (pardon my French :D), but in terms of journals and so on...

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Proper structure of a dissertation, especially regarding the relationship between the methodological/theoretical part and the analysis.

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Your research methods regarding literary analysis, honed through countless years on the job. Do you begin with a theory and then find texts to evaluate/assess it? Or do you begin with a particular text and proceed to extrapolate a theory from them? Does this question even make sense?

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From personal experience and form asking around: since in the humanities what we do is write, our main tool is writing, and the way we share our research with the community is through writing: why is writing not taught? Few of us ever had a class on how to write a paper or a thesis. Few professors ever properly deal with the process of writing a paper in any satisfactory way during their seminars, leaving students to figure out something so fundamental on their own. Why? Isn’t it the job of teachers and of the curriculum to teach us how to write? If not, why not? If yes, why is it not done?

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What do you think about a paper-based dissertation? Meaning, a dissertation made up of papers that are published during the course of the PhD program.

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How do you read? It’s a question that never gets asked, but it’s like 90% of what we do, so I believe that it is important to think and talk about it. How do you read, how much time do you dedicate to it, do you get your hands on everything you can or do you focus on a few texts, how many hours per day do you read, what’s your relationship to reading outside of academia? And how do you keep track of your reading?

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How many primary sources do you use in your dissertation?

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What is your relationship to theory? Because it’s clearly everywhere, but nobody seems to be ever talking about the ‘whys’ of theory. Why do we need theory? When do we need theory? Which theory? Do we just pick-and-mix or are there better approaches?

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If you work/have worked in academia: what has your experience been?

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Usual question every 18-year-old gets asked (sorry): what do you wanna do once you are done?

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Martha Nussbaum, Not for Profit, 2010.
On the importance of the humanities. A fundamental read if you study anything but STEM.

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Raewyn Connell, The Good University, 2019.
On academia in general, its problems, and potential solutions. It will make you mad, but it’s a really inspiring book as well.

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Jeffrey Nealon and Susan Searls Giroux, The Theory Toolbox, 2012.
An amazing book on theory. If you’ve ever asked yourself “Why theory?” this book is for you. It gives you all the tools to properly use theory in the humanities (everything that your professors never told you!).

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https://1lib.at
Legally a grey area, but I don’t think the feds will come knocking at your door. It has all the books you want, PDF, ePub, or Mobi.

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https://archive.org
A wealth of materials, including videos, books, magazines, and so on. Can borrow books.

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https://plato.stanford.edu/index.html
Amazing resource for any philosophy/theory question you want to explore. Fully citable.

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JSTOR Home
Well, I guess we all know this.

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Library Genesis (libgen.lc)
A great resource to get books as pdfs (don’t tell anybody I’ve told you because I am not 100% sure what the legal status is- but it changes every PhDs life- trust me :).

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This is a space where we can ask questions, express frustrations, feel stupid, and get help, or at least feel less lonely in our academic quests

I believe that in academia we tend not to ask the questions we really want to/need to ask. There is always a bit of shame, the feeling that we should already know this, the feeling that we are the only ones not knowing it, the feeling that this is a solitary enterprise after all and that we will figure it out anyway, sooner or later.

Here there is no shame, nothing is beyond asking, and everything can be shared.