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