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New Formalisms, Poetics, Genre Studies Researchers

Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau
Associate Professor (maître de conférences), Université Clermont Auvergne
19th-century American literature and the performing arts (theatre, dance); American poetry / the lyric and performance; American dance, the body in 19th-century American culture & arts
Gender, Sexuality, Queer Studies New Formalisms, Poetics, Genre Studies Orality, Sound, Performance
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Michael Collins
King's College London
Senior Lecturer in American Literature
American Intellectual History; American Studies, specifically Anthropology and Sociology; Ethnicity and Class in U.S. Literature and Culture; American Realism and Modernism; The American Short Story
New Formalisms, Poetics, Genre Studies Philosophy and Intellectual History Race and Ethnicity
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Páraic Finnerty
University of Portsmouth
Reader in English and American Literature
Transatlantic literary relations; Emily Dickinson; Victorian poetry; Representation of masculinity
Gender, Sexuality, Queer Studies New Formalisms, Poetics, Genre Studies Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Anna Girling
University of Edinburgh
PhD Candidate in American Literature
Edith Wharton; Capitalism; Camp; cosmopolitanism; internationalism; middlebrow and detective fiction; memoir; Transatlantic publishing history, especially during the Cold War
Class, Capitalism, the Market Gender, Sexuality, Queer Studies New Formalisms, Poetics, Genre Studies
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David Greenham
University of the West of England
Associate Professor of English
Ralph Waldo Emerson; Pedagogies of Close Reading; Metaphor and Cognition; Intellectual History
New Formalisms, Poetics, Genre Studies Pedagogy Philosophy and Intellectual History
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Nick Lawrence
University of Warwick
Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
Transnational American Studies; Hawthorne and Whitman; Marxism, the Frankfurt School and critical media theory; C21 literary and graphic culture; modernism and modernity; world-literature and world-ecology; and contemporary avant-garde poetry and poetics
Class, Capitalism, the Market New Formalisms, Poetics, Genre Studies Philosophy and Intellectual History
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Hannah Lauren Murray
University of Liverpool
Lecturer in American Literature
Early U.S. fiction, critical whiteness studies, speculative fiction, representations of death and dying, the voice, Robert Montgomery Bird
New Formalisms, Poetics, Genre Studies Orality, Sound, and Performance Race and Ethnicity
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Jimmy Packham
University of Birmingham
Lecturer in North American Literature
American Gothic; voice and utterance; maritime America and oceanic studies; animal and nonhuman studies
New Formalisms, Poetics, Genre Studies Orality, Sound, Performance Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Benjamin Pickford
University of Lausanne
Maître-Assistant in American Literature
Nonfiction prose; Capitalism; Marxism; Authorship studies; Poetics
Class, Capitalism, the Market New Formalisms, Poetics, Genre Studies 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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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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François Specq
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Professor of American Literature and Culture
Intellectual History, and Visual Culture, Literature and environment, American Transcendentalism (esp. Thoreau), Antislavery and Abolitionism, Women's Rights
New Formalisms, Poetics, Genre Studies Philosophy and Intellectual History Visual Culture
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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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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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Georgia Walton
University of Leeds
PhD Student
Transcendentalism; Transcendentalist legacies; Romanticism; contemporary American literature
Affect and Sense Studies New Formalisms, Poetics, Genre Studies Philosophy and Intellectual History
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    • Reading Groups >
      • Manchester, June 2014
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      • 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 >
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      • Symposium Archive: Nottingham 2019 >
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      • Symposium Archive: Exeter 2017 >
        • Programme
      • Symposium archive: Warwick 2015 >
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      • Symposium archive: Sussex 2013 >
        • Programme
    • BrANCA-sponsored panels
  • Teaching
    • Materials
  • Digital Resources