American Studies

Work in the department reflects and leads a growing transnational agenda and research students are encouraged to think about America in a global context. We have long-standing experience and expertise in supervising PhDs to successful completion. Particular areas of research specialism include:

- African American literature, history and culture

- American art and visual culture

- American intellectual history

- American labour history

- American music and popular culture

- American political history

- American print culture and book history

- Asian American literature and culture

- Border studies

- Civil rights and social justice

- Contemporary American fiction

- Crime, prisons and criminal justice

- Feminist theory

- Gender and queer studies

- Indigenous culture

- Latinx culture

- Memory Studies

- Nineteenth-century American literature and culture

- US foreign policy