For our next issue, Ampersand solicits papers on rupturing, deconstructing, and recreating boundaries of assumed forms within American Studies. We encourage a variety of topics and formats and prioritize the work of emerging scholars. Find out more and submit by 4/1 at sites.bu.edu/ampersandjou...

Vol. III, Issue 1 spotlight: Camden Hunt’s experimental and parodic manifesto, “MAKE LOVE TO THE MACHINE,” draws on Marx’s call for workers to reappropriate industrial machines, sketching a method for such reappropriation. Read it now at sites.bu.edu/ampersandjou...

Vol. III, Issue 1 spotlight: Stephanie Kaylor (@stemkay.bsky.social) amalgamates the personal essay, cultural criticism, and Tweet-style provocations to demonstrate how sex workers create sites of resistance and connection on social media. Read it now at sites.bu.edu/ampersandjou...

Vol. III, Issue 1 spotlight: Through visual and sonic recordings of sounds taken on UCLA campus and outside of it, Capucine Rullière convincingly lets us engage with sonic forms of agency in the context of the history of protest. Read and listen at sites.bu.edu/ampersandjou...

Vol. III, Issue 1 spotlight: C. G. Branch links the 1960s with present labor movements via a close comparison of Hollywood strikes and the “star power” that marks SAG-AFTRA and WGA activities. Read it now at sites.bu.edu/ampersandjou...

Vol. III, Issue 1 spotlight: @meghantownes.bsky.social juggles the scholarly and the personal in the story of how one small-town Alabama high school band came to march for JFK’s inauguration, largely due to the noisy organizing of Townes’s grandmother. Read it now at the link in bio!

Vol. III, Issue 1 spotlight: Anne Callahan draws our attention to the noisy mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, examining three accounts of disruptive noises that reveal the friction inherent in emerging industrial work cultures and values. Read it now at the link in bio!

Vol. III, Issue 1 Spotlight:
@mlboyd23.bsky.social considers how the noisy act of striking is also an act of the responsible educator, a sign of our scholarly commitment to identifying and inhabiting possibilities. Read it now at the link in bio!

We proudly share our newest issue, “Disruption as Resistance: Labor, Noise, and Refusal." These seven pieces represent a diverse set of voices and scholarly methods examining unionization, activism, and noise-making. Read it at sites.bu.edu/ampersandjou...

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