George Blaustein is assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He is completing a book entitled To the Heart of Europe: War, Occupation, American Studies. He received his doctorate in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University, and his essays and reviews have appeared in Amerikastudien/American Studies, American Quarterly, Vrij Nederland and N+1. He is also the president of the Netherlands American Studies Association (NASA).

Publications

"Culture, Personality, and the American Century," American Quarterly, 66.4 (December 2014): 1117-1127.

"Redeemer Nation / Remedy Nation: American Studies and Military Occupation," in Legacies of the U.S. Occupation of Japan: Appraisals after Sixty Years, edited by Rosa Caroli and Duccio Basosi (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014).

"Why American Civilization?: American Literature and Academic Exchange in Occupied Europe," Zeitgeschichte, 39.1 (May 2012): 20-31.

"Flight to Germany: Paul Beatty, the Color Line, and the Berlin Wall," Amerikastudien / American Studies 55.4, special issue on "African American Literary Studies: New Texts, New Approaches, New Challenges" (April 2011): 725-738.

"'Other' American Studies: The Salzburg Seminar, American Intellectuals and Postwar Europe," in E pluribus unum or E pluribus plura? Unity and Diversity in American Culture, edited by Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, David Mauk, and Ole Moen (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2011)

Courses

• American History, Beginning to End

• America Inside Out: International Perspectives on the United States

• Metropolitan America

• Geen nevenwerkzaamheden