• From 2002 until 2011, Amerikastudien / American Studies had its home at the Regensburg American Studies Department, with Prof. Dr. Udo Hebel as the General Editor. During those years, the quarterly journal of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS) continued to prosper on the excellent basis which the previous General Editor, Prof. Dr. Alfred Hornung (Mainz), had laid. Amerikastudien / American Studies is now widely respected as an internationally acclaimed platform for the publication of cutting-edge scholarship in all interdisciplinary fields of American Studies.
  
  
• From among the more than eight volumes edited at Regensburg, i.e.  48/2003 through 56.1/2011, two issues deserve special mention: Amerikastudien / American Studies at 50, the 50th anniversary double issue of the journal (50.1-2/2005), and African American Literary Studies: New Texts, New Approaches, New Challenges (55.4/2010), guest-edited by Glenda R. Carpio and Werner Sollors and including five never-before reprinted stories by Zora Neale Hurston. For further information on the content of all volumes of Amerikastudien / American Studies edited at the Regensburg American Studies Department, see http://www.amerikastudien.de/quarterly/index.html.
  
  
• For documentations of the journal’s history, see Alfred Hornung’s article "From the Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien to the Quarterly Amerikastudien / American Studies -- 1956-2005" in issue 50.1-2/2005, and Udo Hebel’s “Preface: Amerikastudien / American Studies 2002 – 2011” in issue 56.1/2011.

 

58th Annual GAAS Conference, Regensburg, 16-19 June 2011 / Book Exhibition of Universitätsverlag Winter/Heidelberg:
Dirk Hoffmann and Dr. Andreas Barth (Winter-Verlag) with the editors of Amerikastudien / American Studies:
Susanne Leikam (Assistant Editor), Dr. Birgit Bauridl (Assistant Editor), Prof. Dr. Udo Hebel (General Editor)

Dirk Hoffmann, Prof. Dr. Udo Hebel, Dr. Andreas Barth presenting
the special issue 55.4/2010 which includes the stories by Zora Neale Hurston.

Regensburg Amerikastudien / American Studies Editorial Office
Susanne Leikam (Assistant Editor), Elisabeth Biebl (front office / administration), Dr. Birgit Bauridl (Assistant Editor)