Gary Frazer Fisher
University of Nottingham
PhD Candidate in Classics
Early American Theatre, Reception of Antiquity in Modern Political Dialogue, Historiography of Ancient Rome, Historiography of Sparta, Classical Political Philosophy
Cultures of Empire and Imperialism Philosophy and Intellectual History
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Natalie Hume
Courtauld Institute
PhD Candidate in Art History
Art in relation to cultural forms, including literature and science; Identity and nationality, colonialism and empire; Modernity and modernism; American studies; Phenomenology and psychoanalysis; Art production and reproduction
Cultures of Empire and Imperialism Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational Visual Culture
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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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Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
University of Lausanne
Professor of American Literature
Race and empire, queer studies and gender, genre, the gothic, war
Cultures of Empire and Imperialism Gender, Sexuality, Queer Studies New Formalisms, Poetics, Genre Studies
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Mark Storey
University of Warwick
Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
U.S. imperialism, Time studies, The political uses of ancient history, Regionalism
Cultures of Empire and Imperialism Nationalism, Regionalism, Localism
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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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