aspeers is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...

 academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 on European American studies#American studies outside of the U.S.. It is published by the American Studies Leipzig MA Program and is available annually in print as well as online. As of 2009 it is also available via EBSCOhost

EBSCO Publishing

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Title

The title reflects the journal's mission. The "as" stands for American Studies, but also refers, together with the noun "peer

Peer group

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," to the role graduate students take in the editing process

Editing

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Purpose and mission statement

In each issue, aspeers includes two separate sections of which only the first contains selected academic essays. The second section features art

Art

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

 contributions, such as visual arts

Visual arts

The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...

, creative writing

Creative writing

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, performance art

Performance art

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Staff

The editorial staff consists of MA

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 students enrolled in the American Studies graduate program at the University of Leipzig

University of Leipzig

The University of Leipzig , located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in the world and the second-oldest university in Germany...

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