This article sets out to map the teaching of American studies in Sweden. Since American studies is not a degree-awarding discipline in Sweden, this is not a straightforward task. The first part of the essay discusses American studies as it looks at the only center of higher education in Sweden that identifies it as a subject, the Swedish Institute for North American Studies at Uppsala University. In the second part we look at the field in a broader sense, identifying courses about North America currently available at Swedish universities and surveying their subjects and topics. Together, the two parts outline the contours of a field of teaching that, we suggest, is best described as archipelagic. The article concludes with a discussion of the possibilities and challenges for American studies teaching in Sweden and offers some thoughts and suggestions for the future, arguing for increased teacher and institutional co-operation and the need to establish Americanstudies as a degree-awarding discipline.