American Studies (Research)

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