Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Study of the American Problems -- Rogue States and Emergent Disciplines -- Migrant Archives: New Routes in and out of American Studies -- Toxicity and the Consuming Subject -- Past Burning: The (Post-)Traumatic Memories of (Post-)Queer Theory -- Paranoid Empire: Specters from Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib -- Taking the Measure of the Black Atlantic -- Cicero's Ghost: The Atlantic, the Enemy, and the Laws of War -- World History according to Katrina -- American Studies in an Age of Extinction -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.