Review of International American Studies (RIAS), the title of the University of Silesia Press, is the peer-reviewed, electronic / print-on-demand, Open Access journal of the International American Studies Association, a worldwide, independent, non-governmental association of American Studies. RIAS serves as agora for the global network of international scholars, teachers, and students of America as a hemispheric and global phenomenon. RIAS is published twice a year (Fall-Winter and Spring-Summer). The journal is funded from the budget of the University of Silesia in Katowice. All topical manuscripts should be directed to the RIAS Editors through this website.

Review of International American Studies is listed in the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH+) as well as in the Index Copernicus Journal Master List with the Index Copernicus Value (ICV) for 2023 of 120.53. As of 2018, the Review of International American Studies is also listed in the Elsevier Scopus database. In 2024, the RIAS has been granted 70 points in the parametric evaluation of the Polish Ministry of Science and Education. Review of International American Studies has also been granted the A-Class category by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes.

To access all of the available issues of RIAS at no cost whatsoever, simply keep clicking. If you wish to receive news and updates log in as "reader." Should you wish to register as a Reviewer or Author, we recommend that you review the About the Journal page for the journal's section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process. Please make sure that you provide all your data, including your affiliation and your academic degree. The journal has no processing or article submission charges.

ISSUES IN PRODUCTION:
—"Vietnam and the Americas: 50 Years Since" — RIAS Vol. 18, Fall-Winter (2/2025) 
(Call closed)
—"Hospitality/Hostipitality/Hostility"—RIAS Vol. 19, Spring-Summer (1/2026)
(Call closed)
—"Blackness and the Knowledges of Intersectionality"— RIAS Vol. 19, Fall-Winter (2/2026)
(Call closed)

CALLS FOR PAPERS:
—"Visual Americas: Image, Text, Performance"—RIAS Vol. 20, Spring-Summer (1/2027) - CLICK TO READ FULL CFP
(Call open until December 30th, 2025)
—"Digital Americas: Global Perspectives on American Narratives Online"— RIAS Vol. 20, Fall-Winter (2/2027) - CLICK TO READ FULL CFP
(Call open until June 30th, 2026)
—"Eastern Thought in the Americas"— RIAS Vol. 21, Fall-Winter (1/2028) - CLICK TO READ FULL CFP
(Call open until December 30th, 2026)

Manuscript selection procedure: the timeframe

1) The Author receives an automatic confirmation upon his or her submission of their text to the OJS system;
2) Within a month of the closing of the Call for Papers, the Author receives the Editors' decision on the qualification/rejection of the text for the peer-reference stage for a given issue and/or a suggestion to submit the text to a different thematic issue of the journal / different section of the journal;
3) Within three months of the preliminary qualification the Author receives two peer references including possible suggestions for revisions;
4) the qualified and positively evaluated text after corrections and revisions is published within 18 months of the closing of the Call for Papers, unless it has been individually negotiated with the Author that the text should be considered for a different issue of the journal.

Note: submitting his or her contributions to RIAS, the Author consents to license his or her work under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) License.  The Author retains the rights to submit the published text to any database, aggregator, or social media service they wish. The Authors may re-publish their texts on condition that the reprint or derivative version acknowledges the original publication in RIAS. 
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Editors-in-Chief
Prof. Paweł Jędrzejko, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
Dr. Nathaniel R. Racine, Texas A&M International University, USA

RIAS Academic Secretary
Prof. Eugenia Sojka, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

Associate Editors
—Dr. Justin M. Battin, RMIT University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
—Prof. Gabriela Vargas-Cetina, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mexico

Journal Editors
—Dr. Anna Maj, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
—Dr. Małgorzata Poks, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
—Dr. Anjali Singh, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, India

 Book Review Editor
—Dr. Manlio Della Marca, University of Modena-Reggio Emilia, Italy    

Founding Editors
—Dr. Michael Boyden, English Department, Uppsala University, Sweden
—Prof. Paweł Krzysztof Jędrzejko, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

Past Editors-in-Chief
2016–2023: Prof. Giorgio Mariani, the "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy
2010–2016: Prof. Cyraina Johnson-Roullier, University of Notre Dame, USA
2006–2010: Dr. Michael Boyden, English Department Uppsala University, Sweden

Past Associate Editors
2022-2023: Dr. J.D. Schnepf, Groningen University, the Netherlands
2020–2023: Dr. Lucie Kýrová, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
2017–2020: Prof. John E. Dean, Texas A&M International University, USA
2013–2020: Dr. György Tóth, University of Stirling, United Kingdom
2011–2012: Dr. Nancy Earle, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St.John's, Canada

Past Senior Copyeditors
—Mark Olival-Bartley, Amerika-Institut, LMU München, Germany
—Marta Cafiso, University of Rome ‘Sapienza’ Italy
—Meghan McKinney Jones, Department of English, University of Notre Dame, United States
—Dr. Emily Metzner, Department of Anthropology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States

RIAS International Academic Board

Zilà Bernd (University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Manuel Broncano (Texas A&M University at Laredo, USA)
Theo D’Haen (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
Carlos Garrido Castellano (Lisbon University, Portugal)
Thomas Claviez (University of Berne, Switzerland)
Jane Desmond (University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign)
Virginia Dominguez (University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign)
Maria del Mar Gallego Durán (University of Huelva, Spain)
Paul Giles (University of Sidney)
José Antonio Gurpegui (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain)
Manpreet Kang (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India)
Liam Kennedy (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Elisabetta Marino (Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy)
Carlo Martinez (Università “Gabriele D'Annunzio,” Italy)
Samantha Viz Quadrat (The Fluminense Federal University, Brazil)
Roshan Lal Sharma (Central University of Himachal Pradesh, India)
Regina Schober (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Ian Tyrrell (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Lea Williams (Norwich University, USA)
Sun Youzhong (Beijing Foreign Studies University, China)

RIAS Editorial Board

Marta Ancarani (Universidad Nacional de Villa María, Argentina)
Rogers Asempasah (University of Cape Town, Ghana)
Antonio Barrenechea (University of Mary Washington, USA)
Claudia Ioana Doroholschi (The West University of Timișoara, Romania)
Beata Gontarz (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Martin Halliwell (University of Leicester, UK)
Patrick Imbert (University of Ottawa) 
Manju Jaidka (Panjab University)
Djelal Kadir (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Eui Young Kim (Inha University, South Korea)
Rui Kohiyana (Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Japan)
Kryštof Kozák (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Elizabeth A. Kuebler-Wolf (University of Saint Francis, USA)
Giorgio Mariani (Università “Sapienza” di Roma, Italy)
Márcio Prado (Universidade Estadual de Maringá)
Regina Schober (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Lea Williams (Norwich University, USA)
Yanyu Zeng (Hunan University of Science and Technology, China)

RIAS Peer-Referees

2023
Stacey Abbott (Northumbria Unversity, UK)
Kyle Bishop  (Southern Utah University, USA)
Anup Beniwal (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University in Delhi, India)
Tomasz Burzyński (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Jiaying Cai (Shanghai International Studies University, China)
Saniye Bilge Mutluay Çetintaş (Hacettepe University, Türkiye)
Marc James Carpenter (University of Jamestown, USA)
Lida Cope (East Carolina University, USA)
Theo D'Haen (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Mariya Doğan (Hacettepe University, Türkiye)
Paul Giles (University of Sindey, Australia)
Andrew Gulliford (Fort Lewis College in Durango, USA)
Manju Jaidka (Panjab University Chandigarh, India)
Steve Kosiba (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
Ana Lugones Hoya (Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Spain)
Uwe Lübken (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany)
Ewa Łuczak (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Clinton Machann (Texas A&M University, USA)
Giorgio Mariani (The "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy)
Elisabetta Marino (Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy)
Alexandra Martin (University of New Hampshire, USA)
Rick Monture (McMaster University, Canada)
Roger Nichols (University of Arizona, USA)
Suzanne Owen (Leeds Trinity University, UK)
Jorge C. Pereira (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Gustavo Racy (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Manuel Broncano Rodriguez (Texas A&M University, USA)
Edward Swenson (University of Toronto, Canada)
Lívia Šavelková (Univerzita Pardubice, Czech Republic)
Sara Villamarin-Freire (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Buck Woodard (William and Mary University USA)
Esther Wright (Cardiff University, UK)

2022
Ricardo Arce (RMIT, Vietnam)
Hayder Naji Shanbooj Alolaiwi (Al Qadissiya Directorate of Public Education, Iraq)
Rafał Borysławski (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Andrea Brady (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Steve Cannon (The University of Sunderland, UK)
Andrea Carosso (Università di Torino, Italy)
Saniye Bilge Mutluay Çetintaş (Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Turkey)
Juan Conde (Oxford University, UK)
Jeffrey Clapp (Education University of Hong Kong, China)
Aaron DeRosa (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA)
Ashley Farmer (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Krzysztof Fordoński (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Jorge González del Pozo (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)
Donatella Izzo ("L'Orientale" University of Naples, Italy)
Marzena Kubisz (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Denise Lynn (University of Southern Indiana, USA)
Diane Negra (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Ren Ellis Neyra (Wesleyan University, USA)
Nathaniel R. Racine (TAMiU, USA)
Cinzia Schiavini (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale, Italy)
Eugenia Sojka (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Rajini Srikanth (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
John Eric Starnes (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Tyne Sumner (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Frederico Tarquini (Università degli Studi Niccolò Cusano, Italy)
Ewa Wylężek (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)

2021
Zuzanna Buchowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
Hal Crimmel (Weber State University, USA)
Virginia Dantonio (University of North Alabama, USA)
German Duarte (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Alexander Gates (Canadian Automotive Museum, Oshawa, Canada)
Marcos Gerhardt (University of Passo Fundo, Brazil)
Patrick Imbert (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Djelal Kadir (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Sebastian Konefał (University of Gdańsk, Poland)
Marzena Kubisz (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Mario Maffi (Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Marcin Mazurek (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Emily Metzner (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Simon Sadler (University of California, Davis, USA)
Vladimir Sanchez Calderon (Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia)
Eugenia Sojka (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Barry Stiefel (College of Charleston, USA)

2020
Debarati Bandyopadhyay (Visva Bharati University, India)
Antonio Barrenechea (University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA., USA)
Włodzimierz Batóg (Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland)
Justin Battin (RMIT International University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
Zuzanna Buchowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
Riccardo Capoferro (The "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy)
Trevor Carolan (University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, BC., Canada)
Valerio Massimo De Angelis (University of Macerata, Italy)
William Glass (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Djelal Kadir (Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA., USA)
Penelope Kelsey (University of Colorado Boulder, Co., USA)
Zofia Kolbuszewska (University of Wrocław, Poland)
Lisa Marchi (University of Trento, Italy)
Pilar Martínez Benedí (Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy)
Marcin Mazurek (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Virginia Pignagnoli (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy)
Luis Ramírez Carrillo (University of Torino, Italy)
Elżbieta Rokosz-Piejko (University of Rzeszów, Poland)
Sabina Sen-Podstawska (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Eugenia Sojka (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Bohdan Szklarski (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw, Poland)

2019
Miloš Calda (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
Marie Černá (The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
Marina de Chiara (University of Naples "L'Orientale," Italy)
Marketa Devata (The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
Jan Géryk (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
Penelope Kelsey (University of Colorado Boulder USA)
Katariina Kyrola (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)
Lucie Kýrová (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
Stefanie Lemke (Coventry University, UK)
Taima Moeke-Pickering (Laurentian University, Canada)
Ladislav Nagy (Jihočeská Univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Czech Republic)
Nicola Paladin (Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio," Chieti–Pescara, Italy)
Agnieszka Rzepa (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
Pavel Szobi (European University Institute, Firenze, Italy)
Lisa Tatonetti (Kansas State University, USA)
György Tóth (Stirling University, Scotland, UK)

2018
Donatella Izzo (Università L'Orientale, Naples, Italy)
Vincenzo Bavaro (Università L'Orientale, Naples, Italy)
Gianna Fusco (Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy)
Fiorenzo Iuliano (Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy)
Lisa Tatonetti (Kansas State University, USA)
Fabrizio Tonello (Università di Padova, Italy)
Marco Morini (Università Saoienza di Roma, Italy)
Paolo Barcella (Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy)

2017
Justin Battin (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Sonia Caputa (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Joanna Mstowska (KPSW Bydgoszcz, Poland)
Tomasz Sikora (Pedagogical University, Kraków, Poland)

2015-2016
Susana Susana Araújo (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Gustavo Adolfo Luque (Universidad Nacional de Villa María, Argentina)
Ana Mauad (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil)
Sun Youzhong (Beijing Foreign Studies University, China)

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