American Studies Association conference
November 14–17, 2024 | Baltimore, MDWe’ll see you in Baltimore!
Come on by our booth to get a free manuscript consultation from our founder Dr. Cathy Hannabach, grab some swag, and discover new American studies books by Ideas on Fire authors.
In this guide, we’ve curated a bunch of resources to help you get the most out of your conference experience.
This year’s theme is Grounded Engagements in American Studies, and the event aims to “confront settler and racialized structures globally, working towards mapping new strategies that lead to just worlds.”
Publishing consultation
Book a free Ideas on Fire consultation with Dr. Cathy Hannabach to get expert feedback on your interdisciplinary book project.
Learn how our team can support you in the publishing process and make your publishing experience easier.
We offer developmental editing, copyediting, manuscript review, journal editing, and book indexing services.
There’s an in-person option for consultations at the conference in Baltimore as well as a Zoom option for consultations before and after the event.
Publishing consultation at the conference
Publishing consultation on Zoom
Event highlights & where we’ll be
6:00 – 7:00 pm Ideas on Fire exhibit booth open
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Booth 100, book exhibit, Key Ballroom (2nd floor)
We’re also excited to celebrate these awesome Ideas on Fire authors at their Thursday sessions:
Quynh Vo
- 006. Beauty, Sexuality and Social Desires
E Cram
- 015. Presidential Session: Mapping Care Beyond Crisis: Regenerative Engagement Within and Against the American Academy
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez
- 016. Infrastructures of the U.S.-Mexico Border
Mimi Khúc
- 017. Author + Readers + You: Collective Unwellness and Care in the University with Mimi Khúc’s *dear elia*
Autumn Womack
- 026. Grounds for Speculation: Speculative Histories, Racial Futures
María Célleri
- 028. Site-Specific Panel: This Land is Your Land: Latinx Perspectives on Belonging in Baltimore
Mingwei Huang
- 030. Ethnography Caucus-Sponsored Session: Ethnographies of Racial Capitalism
Rana Jaleel
- 033. Abolitionism and Palestine Liberation Organizing in US Higher Education
Munia Bhaumik
- 052. Archives at the Limit: Critical Fabulation and Community
Erin L. Durban
- 056. Ethnography Caucus-Sponsored Session: “I was told I wasn’t a good writer”: Grounding Ethnographic Writing
Rianna Walcott
- 064. When Intra-Interconnectedness Hurts: Black Feminist Approaches to Digital Harm Mitigation
Anima Adjepong
- 066. Grounding Disengagement: Thinking and Praxis Beyond Current Inclusion Models in Sport
Dolores Inés Casillas
- 072. Author Meets Readers: Fitness Fiesta! Selling Latinx Culture through Zumba
Kareem Rabie
- 079. Organizing to House the Third Reconstruction
Diane Wong
- 079. Organizing to House the Third Reconstruction
Travis Foster
- 085. Not Cis: Historicizing Collective Sex Identities Between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
micha cárdenas
- 091. Trans, Queer and Femme Ecologies in the Terracene
Chris Barcelos
- 095. Re-Grounding Coalitional Feminisms and Queer Politics
Gloria Negrete-Lopez
- 095. Re-Grounding Coalitional Feminisms and Queer Politics
9:30 am – 5:30 pm Ideas on Fire exhibit booth open + manuscript consultations
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Booth 100, book exhibit, Key Ballroom (2nd floor)
We’re also excited to celebrate these awesome Ideas on Fire authors at their Friday sessions:
Mishuana Goeman
- 222. Presidential Address
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
- 106. Contemporary Black Lesbian Scholarship, from the Kitchen Table
Wilson Valentín-Escobar
- 111. Rican/Structing Salsa’s Nuyorican Meanings: Musical Practices, Diasporic Communities, and the 2023 Banco Popular Christmas Special
Miya Shaffer
- 125. Sites/Sights of Racial Re/production: Community Formations in the Places of Visual Culture
Mejdulene Shomali
- 126. Presidential Session: 20th Anniversary of Roderick Ferguson’s Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique
Cole Rizki
- 136. Ethnography Caucus: Grounded Ethnography in Trans Studies
Quynh Vo
- 140. Site-Specific Panel: American Studies in the Community: Creating Courses that Work for Change, Challenge the Archive, and Engage with Community Based Learning
Naomi Macalalad Bragin
- 143. Embodying Networks of Black Resistance: Footwork, Afrobeats and Funk Dance
Cynthia Franklin
- 155. Presidential Session: All of Us or None: Migrant Organizing in an Era of Deportation and Dispossession
Sarah Orsak
- 166. Disability and Then, Disability and Now
Rana Jaleel
- 167. Critical Zionism Studies: Space to Think and Breathe Freedom
Christina Hanhardt
- 172. Book Launch Roundtable for Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South
Douglas Ishii
- 191. The Hemispheric Engagements of Renee Hudson’s Latinx Revolutionary Horizons
Tara Fickle
- 191. The Hemispheric Engagements of Renee Hudson’s Latinx Revolutionary Horizons
Koritha Mitchell
- 196. Racial Formation and Region
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
- 201. Constellating Knowledges: Pedagogy, Practice, Power
Mingwei Huang
- 201. Constellating Knowledges: Pedagogy, Practice, Power
Tiffany Lethabo King
- 207. Grounds for Liberation: Black, Indigenous, and Refugee Feminisms on Decolonial and Abolitionist Futures
Dolores Inés Casillas
- 208. Sound (of) Engagements: Record Collections, DJ Sets, Hair Stylists and How to “Listen to Listeners”
9:30 am – 5:30 pm Ideas on Fire exhibit booth open + manuscript consultations
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Booth 100, book exhibit, Key Ballroom (2nd floor)
We’re also excited to celebrate these awesome Ideas on Fire authors at their Saturday sessions:
Michelle Velasquez-Potts
- 227. Revolting Freedom, Tenacious Liberation: The Aesthetic Possibilities of Unbecoming
Lily Wong
- 232. American Studies in Global Flashpoints
Priya Kandaswamy
- 233. Presidential Session: Organized Demands: Abolition and Labor Movements
Perry Zurn
- 240. Trans Poetic Ecologies: Politics, Gendered Worldmaking, and Reimagining Care
Bo Ruberg
- 241. The Trouble with Sexual Communities: Self-Expression, Regulation, and Discrimination in Cultures of Non-Normative Sex Online
Liat Ben-Moshe
- 251. Critical Disability Studies Caucus Sponsored: Shake the Ground, Crack the Foundation: Mad Studies and Revolution
Eunsong Kim
- 254. Thinking With and Against Museums
Eric Stanley
- 256. On Anticolonial Revenge
Iván Chaar López
- 276. Grounding US Empire: Authors Meet Readers Roundtable
Hi’ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart
- 283. Presidential Session: Grounded in Good Relations
- 307. Presidential Session: Grounding in Good Relations
Ashanté Reese
- 283. Presidential Session: Grounded in Good Relations
- 307. Presidential Session: Grounding in Good Relations
Erin L. Durban
- 300. Critical Disability Studies Caucus Sponsored: Surviving Academia: Mentoring for Critical Disability Studies Scholars
Mimi Khúc
- 300. Critical Disability Studies Caucus Sponsored: Surviving Academia: Mentoring for Critical Disability Studies Scholars
Mishuana Goeman
- 309. Welcome to the HARK: Digital Archive Building and the Haudenosaunee Legacy of Native Studies
Neelofer Qadir
- 310. Troubling Legal Landscapes: Land, Race, and Colonial Imaginaries 1
Mairead Sullivan
- 326. Lesbian Epistemologies in the Age of AIDS
Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez
- 327. Archival Groundings and Grounded Archives: First Books in Queer, Disability, and Critical Race Studies
Lily Wong
- 337. Grounded Relationalities across Space, Time, and Community
8:30 – 11:00 am Ideas on Fire exhibit booth open + book winner pickup
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Booth 100, book exhibit, Key Ballroom (2nd floor)
We’re also excited to celebrate these awesome Ideas on Fire authors at their Sunday sessions:
Shanté Paradigm Smalls
- 351. Urban Meeting Spaces of Queer Futurity
Clare Croft
- 359. Who We Write To/Where We Write From
Sara Matthiesen
- 371. Geographies of Sexual Violence
Rana Jaleel
- 371. Geographies of Sexual Violence
Eve Eure
- 378. New Citizenship Studies
Cynthia Franklin
- 382. Grounding the Struggle to Decolonize the University
Kareem Rabie
- 388. The Grounds of Empire: Elasticity, Entanglements, and Everyday Reverberations
Jennifer Lynn Kelly
- 395. Settler Intimacies, Liberal Partnerships, and Apartheid Architectures
Christina Hanhardt
- 398. Queer and Minor Infrastructures: Spaces, Cultures, Horizons
María Célleri
- 400. Disruptive Geographies of Queer Life
New books in American studies
Check out these awesome recent books we edited and indexed for Ideas on Fire authors.
Want to see your book here (and at our conference booth) next year? Get in touch.
A big congrats to Ideas on Fire author Sony Coráñez Bolton for winning the 2024 Lara Romero First Book Prize and to Ideas on Fire author Kathryn Walkiewicz for an honorable mention for the 2024 Lara Romero First Book Prize!
Your conference playlist
Listen to interviews with your favorite American studies scholars on the Imagine Otherwise podcast.
Perfect for the plane/train/car ride to Baltimore and for getting you pumped about connecting with colleagues at the conference.
These episodes make great teaching resources as well.
Check out the full Imagine Otherwise archive to find books and interviews that complement each episode, along with resources to help students and researchers explore the vibrant worlds of progressive, interdisciplinary scholarship.
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