OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Canadian Review of American Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Die a Hero or Live Long Enough to See Yourself Become a Traditional American Family Sitcom: Exhausting Parody and Thirty-Three Years of The Simpsons	4
Revisiting Auburn Avenue: The Construction of an Afrofuturist Counterpublic Space	3
From Chico to Caesar, Why Chimps Are Good to Think	2
Ecology, Natural History, and Ecospatiality in American Literature	2
Le poète à l’essai : une transaction secrète chez Ralph Waldo Emerson	2
Films at the Fairs: Cinema at the San Francisco and San Diego International Expositions of 1915	1
New Television as Neo-Naturalism: The Wire and The Shield	1
Anglo-American Problems: The Special Relationship	1
Mad Men and the Falling Bodies of 9/11	1
American Borderlands: Reflections on Margins, Mainstreams, and Alternatives	1
Introduction—New Perspectives on New Television	1
Alternative Makings in American Poetry	1
“The Spirit of Their Fathers Moves Within Them”: The Radical Conservatism of the Virginia Populists	1
Reproductive Justice, Race, and the Prescience of the Past	1
Colonial Archives in Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe: In and on the Body of Mary-Mathilda	1
Modern Liberty, Partisanship, and Identity: On Mark Lilla and Yuval Levin	1
Containing and Unleashing the Shock of the Modern in “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” “A Natural History of the Dead,” and “A Way You’ll Never Be”	0
Liminality and Longing in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” and Dionne Brand’s At the Full and Change of the Moon	0
Boot Camp Baby: Military Science Fiction’s Incubator	0
The Journey of Self-Defence through Sound in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen	0
Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul: Struggling and Living in Liquid Times	0
Justified: Transitioning the Old TV Western Lawman into a New Television Protagonist	0
Pornoculture et fétichisme : œuvres d’art mutilées. Un imaginaire de la chair entre photographie, cinéma, série télévisée et réseaux sociaux	0
“True Canadian”: Advertising Canadian Branded Products in the Early American Press, 1760–1810	0
Revisiting Asian American Poetics: A Review of Heterogeneity and a Case of Russell Leong	0

What Is Long-Form Television? An Answer to Jason Mittell’s Complex TV	0
Monster Menstrual: Women, Girls, and Queer Horror in Stranger Things	0
The Spectacle and Reification of Traumapower in Game of Thrones	0
Religion and Neuroscience in Uncle Tom’s Cabin	0
“I Will Have Your Surrender”: British Colonization and the Rape of Jamie Fraser	0
Towards Post-Institutional Individualism: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and the Therapeutic Politics of Dissent	0
North of Carmel: Jeffers, Bringhurst, and the Ecological View	0
Introduction—Alternative/Mainstream	0
The (Anti-)Hero with a Thousand Faces: Reconstructing Villainy in The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul	0
Making It New and Keeping It Old: Recasting Frameworks and Contexts in Georgia O’Keeffe Studies	0
Why Are Public Attitudes towards Immigration in Canada Becoming Increasingly Positive? Exploring the Factors Behind the Changes in Attitudes towards Immigration (1998–2021)	0
From Disincorporation to Rematerialization: Breaking Bad and the Life of Cash	0
Taiwan Shift in Anglophone Fiction and Memoir	0
The Impact of Mis-Recognition on Homeland for Muslim Second-Generation Immigrants in Post-9/11 America	0
Petrocultural Formations: Crisis Discourse, Energy Geographies, and Neo-liberalism	0
The World of the Fathers: Hawthorne in “The Custom-House”	0
Jennifer Haley’s The Nether: Transhumanism in the Post-Internet World	0
Quests for the Power of the Poem (Forgetting the Power of the Past?)	0
The Late Oedipal Genre, Thantagonists, and Secondary Televisuality	0
Fiddling with Southern California at a Time of Upheaval: A.E. Maxwell’s Mystery Series	0
Civil War Diplomacy: A Fresh Look	0
Fleabag, Modernism, and New Television	0
The Elusive Killer in Didactic Cinema: Conceptualizing Munch-ian Art and Adorno’s Negative Dialectics in Horror	0
Introduction: Making and Remaking American Poetry	0
Remembering Priscilla “Percy” L. Walton, 1957–2024	0
L’obscénité intégrale. Pornoculture et vie quotidienne	0
“Don’t Pray for Me, Pray for Them!”: Norman Jewison’s In the Heat of the Night and Hollywood “Redneckification” of Anti-Black Racism	0
Être dansés. Technomagie, culture électronique et socialité après l’humanisme	0
Crossing Cultures and the Poetic Worlds of Forrest Gander, Thomas King, and Margaret Atwood	0
Trump’s Base! You Can Say That Again!! An Optimistic Deconstruction of Base Politics	0
Jane Gray’s Framing of Asa Gray through Autobiography, Biography, and Correspondence	0
President Biden’s Restrained Hamiltonian Foreign Policy	0
Detecting Meaninglessness and Meaning in Don DeLillo’s Players	0
Morbid Symptoms	0
Borders and Betrayal in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon: Rethinking Truths and Facts in the American Slave Narrative	0
The Sentimental Physician: J. Marion Sims’sStory of My Life	0
Ezra Pound and Spatial Poetics	0
Cities and Ruin in American Studies	0
“The American Sentence”	0
“If You Wish a Picture”: Ekphrasis as Technique in Solmaz Sharif’s Look	0
“We Couldn’t Do That Even if We Wanted To”: Family and Natality in Veep and House of Cards (US)	0
Liberal Containment in Marvel Movies of the Trump Era	0
The Practice of Everyday Death: On the Paratactical “Life” of Neo-liberal Biopolitics	0
“Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker”: The History of a Phrase	0
Missing the Boat: Narrative Artistry in Hawthorne’s “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” and James’s The Ambassadors	0
From Slavery to Individuality: A Marxist Reading of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	0
“Love Thy Neighbor”: Neuroculture, Fundamentalism, and the Other in Gish Jen’s World and Town	0
Refashioning Noir: Do Dead Girls Still Live in L.A.?	0
The Mainstreaming of American Queer Cinema	0
“Knowing Our Place”: Reading Barbara Kingsolver’s Works from a Bioregional Perspective	0

Jonathan Edwards, Secular Duration, and the Evangelical Aesthetics of Sinful Selfhood	0
A “Burlesque Queen in Bobby Socks”: Domesticity, Criminality, and Suspense in Charles Williams’s Noir Fiction	0