American and Canadian Studies (Research)

Our research focuses on North America itself, as well as examining the exchange of influences between North American cultures and those of Asia, Europe and the Americas.

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

• Diplomatic history

• Disability studies

• Feminist theory

• Gender and queer studies

• History of psychiatry

• Immigrant writing

• Indigenous culture

• Latinx culture

• Life writing

• Memory Studies

• Nineteenth-century American literature and culture

• US foreign policy