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Geography, Cartography, Travel Researchers

Michael Boyden
Uppsala University
Senior Lecturer in American Literature
Translation studies; Migrant literature; History of revolution; Environmental humanities; Literary multilingualism
Citizenship and Democracy Geography, Cartography, Travel Translation Studies
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Anna Diamantouli
Deree, The American College of Greece
Assistant Professor in American Literature
Post-revolutionary transatlantic writing; Literature of slavery and captivity; Representation of North African culture and American literature
Geography, Cartography, Travel Race and Ethnicity Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Justyna Fruzinska
University of Lodz
Assistant Professor of American Studies
European 19th-century travel writing about America; Popular Culture; Transcendentalism; Jewish Studies
Geography, Cartography, Travel Popular Culture and Children's Literature Race and Ethnicity
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Gesa Mackenthun
Rostock University
Professor of American Studies
Nineteenth-century imperial travel and archaeology and the scientific constructions of American antiquity; Critical Empire Studies; Colonial discourse analysis; American Travel Writing (up to c. 1860); Postcolonial Literature in the New World; American Archeology and Anthropology; Black Atlantic Studies; History of American Studies
Cultures of Empire and Imperialism Geography, Cartography, Travel Race and Ethnicity
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Mahshid Mayar
Bielefeld University
Assistant Professor of American Studies
American childhoods; Transnational American literature; 19th-century US cultural history; Critical game studies; Cultural geography; History of Empire; US Juvenile Periodical Press
Cultures of Empire and Imperialism
Geography, Cartography, Travel Popular Culture and Children's Literature
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Katie Myerscough
University of Manchester
PhD Candidate in American Studies
City planning and urban studies; Progressivism; Race studies; Gender studies
Gender, Sexuality, Queer Studies Geography, Cartography, Travel Race and Ethnicity
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Thomas Ruys Smith
University of East Anglia
Senior Lecturer in American Studies
The Life and Culture of the Mississippi River; The South and Early West; Crime and Outlaws; Popular Literature; Travel; Music and Theatre; Popular Religious Movements
Geography, Cartography, Travel Nationalism, Regionalism, Localism Popular Culture and Children's Literature
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Edward Sugden
King's College London
Lecturer in American Literature
Worlds-Systems Analysis and Transnational Theory, Theories of Space, Time and History, Modernity and its Elisions, Minoritarian and Multilingual America
Geography, Cartography, Travel Philosophy and Intellectual History Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Tim Youngs
Nottingham Trent University
Professor of English and Travel Studies
Travel Writing; African American writing
Geography, Cartography, Travel Cultures of Empire and Imperialism Race and Ethnicity
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    • 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