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Book History and Material Culture Researchers

Bridget Bennett
University of Leeds
Professor of American Literature and Culture
Transnational American literature and culture (especially Early American to the C19th); representations of home and the domestic; spiritualism; slavery and print culture
Book History and Material Culture Race and Ethnicity Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Emily Coit
University of Bristol
Lecturer in English
Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary and intellectual history; transatlantic liberalisms; history of higher education, feminism, and whiteness; Henry James, Edith Wharton, Henry Adams
Citizenship and Democracy Book History and Material Culture Philosophy and Intellectual History
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Rowland Hughes
University of Hertfordshire
Research Leader in English and Creative Writing and Coordinator of American Studies
Colonial and Early American Studies; Native American literature; Ecocriticism; Human-animal studies; Print Culture; The American West; Transatlantic cultural exchange
Book History and Material Culture Nationalism, Regionalism, Localism Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Katie McGettigan
Royal Holloway, University of London
Senior Lecturer in American Literature
American and Transatlantic Print Culture, Periodical Studies, Herman Melville, Digital Humanities
Book History and Material Culture Digital Humanities Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Christopher Ohge
Institute of English Studies, University of London
Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature
Associate Director, Melville Electronic Library
Textual Scholarship, Digital Humanities, Book History and Material Culture, Philosophy and Intellectual History, Transatlantic
Book History and Material Culture Digital Humanities Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Matthew Pethers
University of Nottingham
Assistant Professor in American Intellectual and Cultural History
Intellectual History, Print Culture, American Revolution, Early American Drama, American Romanticism
Book History and Material Culture Citizenship and Democracy Philosophy and Intellectual History
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Peter Riley
University of Exeter
Senior Lecturer in American Literature
Nineteenth- through early twentieth-century American literature in relation to labor history, critical theory, poetry and poetics, and archival studies, with developing focuses on race, ethnicity, German-American literature, and cultural ecology
Book History and Material Culture Class, Capitalism, the Market New Formalisms, Poetics, Genre Studies
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Graham Thompson
University of Nottingham
Professor of American Literature
Print Culture, Magazines, The Short Story, Antislavery Print Culture, Herman Melville
Book History and Material Culture New Formalisms, Poetics, Genre Studies Race and Ethnicity
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Kristen Treen
University of St. Andrews
Lecturer in American Literature
Formal intersections of literature with objects and material states; Material cultures; Visual cultures; Civil War; Visual technologies and popular psychology
Affect and Sense Studies Book History and Material Culture Visual Culture
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Christa Holm Vogelius
University of Copenhagen
Lecturer
Poetics, Nonfiction prose, media studies, gender studies
Digital Humanities Philosophy and Intellectual History Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Natalie A Zacek
University of Manchester
Senior Lecturer in American Studies
Colonial America; Slavery; Gender; Race; Material culture; The Caribbean; Horse-racing; The antebellum South
Book History and Material Culture Gender, Sexuality, Queer Studies Race and Ethnicity
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  • Info
    • About Us
    • Members' Page
    • Essay Prizes
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  • Events
    • Reading Groups >
      • Manchester, June 2014
      • Norwich, November 2014
      • London, June 2015
      • Nottingham, September 2015
      • Canterbury, June 2016
      • Oxford, October 2016
      • London, June 2017
      • Edinburgh, January 2018
      • Birmingham, June 2018
      • London, November 2018
      • Aston, June 2019
      • Zoom, July 2020
      • Zoom, November 2020
    • Symposia >
      • King's College 2022 >
        • Programme
      • Symposium Archive: Nottingham 2019 >
        • Programme
      • Symposium Archive: Exeter 2017 >
        • Programme
      • Symposium archive: Warwick 2015 >
        • Programme
      • Symposium archive: Sussex 2013 >
        • Programme
    • BrANCA-sponsored panels
  • Teaching
    • Materials
  • Digital Resources