This page has been established with the specific role of facilitating postgraduate links across Europe. Please see below for information on various postgraduate contacts. Many of them are postgraduate students themselves but some countries are still in the process of choosing a postgraduate representative and therefore faculty may currently be responsible for liaising with their country's postgraduate students.

This is also a unique opportunity to post information about postgraduate specific news (such as events, awards or conferences) in individual European countries. In order to display such news, please contact the webmaster, Professor Grabbe, at grabbe@eaas.eu

Austria
There are three postgraduate student representatives for the EAAS Network: Petra Eckhard is a postgraduate student at the University of Graz, where she also works as an assistant lecturer in the Department of American Studies (petra.eckhard@uni-graz.at). Dr. Silvia Schultermandl is actually now a full-time lecturer at the University of Tennessee in the USA, but remains active in AAAS (sschulte@utk.edu). Brigitte Wallinger is currently completing her PhD in American Literature at the University of Salzburg (Brigitte@Wallinger.at). Austria's Young Americanists maintain their own website at http://www.uni-graz.at/aya/index.html.

France
There are four contacts who are in charge of doctoral students for the AFEA, all of whom are professors rather than postgraduate students. These are: François Brunet (francois.brunet@univ-paris-diderot.fr), Naomi Wulf (naomi.wulf@univ-paris3.fr), Hélène Aji (helene.aji@univ-lemans.fr), and François Specq (fspecq@ens-lsh.fr). Professor Guillaume Marche (gmarche@univ-paris12.fr) is the General Secretary of AFEA and can also be a contact.

Germany
Wolfgang Niehues (wolfgang.niehues@uni-dortmund.de) is the current contact in Germany for postgraduate students.

Ireland
Julie Sheridan (jasherid@tcd.ie) is the Chair of the Postgraduate Group of the Irish Association For American Studies. She is currently completing a Phd in contemporary American fiction at Trinity College, Dublin.

Italy
Italy has established, within the Italian Association for American Studies (AISNA), its own Postgraduate Forum, counting for now more than 50 graduate and post-graduate students from all over the country, enrolled both in MA and PhD programs. The name is "AISNA Graduate Students Forum." Forum members can be contacted at this e-mail address: aisnagraduatesforum@gmail.com. An on-line page, as well as an on-line discussion forum, is also in preparation and we also hope to be able to found our own review as soon as possible.

Norway
Alf Tomas Tønnessen (a.t.tonnessen@ilos.uio.no) is the Norwegian postgraduate representative in Norway and is currently completing a PhD in political history and the conservative movement.

Poland
Dr. Pawel Jedrzejko (jedrzej@us.edu.pl) currently works at the University of Silesia in Katowice and serves as a liaison with postgraduate students in Poland.

Romania
Dana Mihailescu (dmihailes@yahoo.com) is the postgraduate representative in the Romanian Association of American Studies, and is currently studying for a PhD (The Contingency of Double Identity: The East European in Early 20th Century Jewish American Fiction) at the University of Bucharest.

Russia
Professor Larisa Mikhailova (larisa@journ.msu.ru) who serves as RSAS Secretary can act as a liaison with postgraduate students in Russia.

Spain
Dr. Cristina Garrigos (dfmcgg@unileon.es) from the University of Leon is the secretary of SAAS. Together with Rodrigo Andres (rodrigoandres@ub.edu) they have access to American Studies postgraduates and will pass on information.

Switzerland
Professor Philipp Schweighauser (ph.schweighauser@unibas.ch) is the Secretary of SANAS and a contact for Swiss postgraduates.

United Kingdom
Michael J. Collins (aaxmc1@nottingham.ac.uk) is a PhD student at the University of Nottingham and the postgraduate representative for BAAS. Stuart Salmon is a PhD student at the University of Glasgow and is the postgraduate representative to the Scottish Association. He can be contacted on s.i.salmon@stir.ac.uk.

Further Information:
If you can think of anyone else who should be approached for this webpage, please do not hesitate to let Josephine Metcalf (British Association for American Studies) know at josephinemetcalf@yahoo.co.uk.

To date, Belgium does not have a post-grad representative. There is also currently no such representative in the Czech Republic.

If you wish to subscribe to the EAAS listserv for postgraduates specifically, please email Jaap Verheul ( jaap.verheul@let.uu.nl ).