Tatiani G. Rapatzikou is Associate Professor in twentieth century American Literature and Culture at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her areas of research include Contemporary American Fiction and Poetry, Technological Uncanny, Digital Literature, Postmodern and Experimental writing practice.

Ludmila Martanovschi is Associate Professor in American Studies at Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania. Her areas of research include Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States and American Drama.

The book underlines the vibrancy as well as complexity that characterizes the study of American literature and culture in the twenty-first century with regard to the exploration and understanding of ethnicity and gender.

African Americans and medicine - slave narratives and semiotics - Obamacare - Media sensationalism - Native American literature, photo literature - immigrant identities - Post 9/11 - Taiwanese American Literature - Chicano cinema - Chinese American masculinity - Japanese American literature - The New Woman and Eastern European feminism - Camp and Sadcore

The contributions in this collection underline the vibrancy as well as complexity that characterizes the study of American literature and culture in the twenty-first century with regard to the exploration and understanding of ethnicity and gender. The book aims at contributing to the research already taking place within American Studies, while opening up the texts discussed to further literary and cultural evaluations and interpretations. America is viewed here not in isolation but as part of a fluctuating as well as geographically and culturally expansive reality as testified by the Asian, European, and American background of the volume contributors.