The Andrew Hook Centre
For American Studies

Aims and Objectives

E-Mail hookctr@arts.gla.ac.uk

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The American Studies Crossroads Project is the world's most

Links with distant places

important American Studies site. It contains information about the American Studies Association (ASA), the ASA newsletter, and news about the annual conference; links to American Studies organisations and information about degree programmes around the world; news of fellowships, jobs and professional opportunities; essays on American Studies; an American Studies virtual library; and resources and materials for teaching.

The British Association for American Studies (BAAS) is the organisation for British students and staff in American Studies. In addition to publishing the Journal of American Studies, BAAS organises an annual conference.

The United States Information Agency (USIA) is the federal government's agency for promoting and supporting the study of American civilisation outside of the United States.

Europe's leading American Studies research institution is the Salzburg Centre for the Study of American Culture & Language, which sponsors lectures, seminars and conferences, and supports research and teaching of American Studies throughout Europe.

North American Studies Group. This web site prvides detailed information about primary and secondary resources for American and Canadain Studies available in Scottish university and research libraries.

Literature Resources

• LION: Literature Online. Hundreds of thousands of fully-searchable American and English texts, with reference works, bibliographies and catalogues.
• The University of Virginia Electronic Text Centre. Includes African American; Native American; American Civil War; Thomas Jefferson; Mark Twain.
• The American Verse Project . An electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.
• The Ecola Directory of Newspapers Online. A list of North American newspaper sites, with links to newspapers and magazines worldwide.
• The English Server. The English Department at Carnegie Mellon University publishes writings and artwork covering a wide range of interests. There are over twenty thousand works.
• The On-Line Books Page. Search by Author or search by Title. Over 8000 online texts.

Language Resources

• Virtual Facts on file On-line dictionary, thesaurus and quotations
• THOR: Virtual Reference Desk Dictionaries, thesaurus, acronyms and quotations
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Webster's Dictionary searchable on-line dictionary
• Collins COBUILD dictionary for English learners
• Nathan Bailey's Universal Etymological English Dictionary, 1736
• Summer Institute of Linguistics
• Human Languages (English) Page The Human-Languages Page is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. It includes links to Amercan dialect information and to American Indian languages.
• The American Dialect Society at Mississippi State University
• The Phonological Atlas of North America the Telsur Project at the Linguistics Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania
• Indexes to the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
• The Linguist an internet linguistics journal with other links.
• Linguistics information from Brown University

 

General Resources and Text Analysis Tools

• Subject Databases Menu at the University of Glasgow Library
• The HUMBUL Humanities Hub (International Resources for the Humanities)
• CTI Centre for Textual Studies
• The Associaton for Literary and Linguistic Computing
• TACT Homepage. Text Analysis Computing Tools information and search.