Crossroads of Cultures: The Transnational Turn in American Studies--Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, November 12, 2004

The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature

“…Despite calls from scholars such as Marc Shell (1993), Werner Sollors (1998), Shelley Fisher Fishkin (2005), Lawrence Rosenwald (2008), and Rachel Adams (2009) for "Americanists" to learn other languages and start weaving non-English writing from the United States into American literary history, progress has been slow. Furthermore, Sollors points out that "little-studied" non-English texts "raise important issues of language policies, national identity, and education, and they are especially suited to international scholarly collaboration" (Sollors 1998, 7).…”

Mobilizing Craft

“…The international turns in American Studies and the history of American art are changing both fields (Shu and Pease, 2015;Davis, 2013;Fluck et al, 2011;Fishkin, 2005). Regarding the latter, as Patricia Failing notes, "undercutting the nativism that used to be American art history's reason to exist" along with taking more cosmopolitan approaches and "acknowledging a broader international context" distances us from the foundational struggles that once fueled concerns about the very legitimacy of American art as a field of scholarly inquiry (Failing, 2000: 192).…”

Ylirajainen kirjallisuus ja yksikielinen kirjallinen elämä Suomessa

“…Kansallinen kehys on näkynyt myös kirjallisuudentutkimuksen lähestymistavoissa ja maailmankuvassa, erityisesti kirjallisuuden rajauksissa, kanonisoinnissa ja historiallistamisessa (mm. Fishkin, 2005;Grönstrand & al., 2016;Jay, 2010;Nissilä, 2016a;Pollari & al., 2015). Ylirajaisen tutkimusotteen tavoitteena on epäluonnollistaa kansallisen kä-sitettä ja löytää kansalliselle vaihtoehtoisia tutkimuskonteksteja (mm.…”