Race and Ethnicity

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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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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Kate Dossett
University of Leeds
Associate Professor, School of History
Women's and Gender History; U.S. History; African American History; The Harlem Renaissance; Black Theatre; Feminist Archives
Gender, Sexuality, Queer Studies Orality, Sound, Performance Race and Ethnicity
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Dara Downey
Trinity College Dublin; Trinity Access Program
Visiting Lecturer, School of English
The Gothic, The Short Story, Gender Studies, Marxism, Geography, Anthropology, The Supernatural
Class, Capitalism, the Market Race and Ethnicity Religion and Faith
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Erin E. Forbes
University of Bristol
Lecturer
African American and U.S. literature of the long 19th- century; literature of enslavement; race and environment; African American intellectual history; Spiritualism; the penitentiary; American Enlightenment/American Gothic; Edgar Allan Poe; Harriet Jacobs.
Citizenship and Democracy Race and Ethnicity Religion and Faith
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Rebecca Fraser
University of East Anglia
Senior Lecturer in American Studies
Race, gender, and sexuality in nineteenth century America; Transitional gender identity; Regionalism; Memory studies; Visual and vernacular culture
Gender, Sexuality, Queer Studies Nationalism, Regionalism, Localism Race and Ethnicity
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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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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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Hannah Rose Murray
University of Edinburgh
Leverhulme Early-Career Fellow
Race and Ethnicity; Transatlantic Abolitionism; Visual Culture; Print Culture; Orality, Sound and Performance; Celebrity Culture; Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities Race and Ethnicity Visual Culture
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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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Lloyd Pratt
University of Oxford
Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature
African American Literature, Literatures of the American South, The Novel, Theory and Criticism, Gender and Sexuality, History of the Book, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literatures in English
Gender, Sexuality, Queer Studies Nationalism, Regionalism, Localism Race and Ethnicity
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Theresa Saxon
University of Central Lancashire
Recruitment and Resources Manager, Academic Development Lead, and Guest Lecturer in School of Humanities and Social Sciences
The Black Atlantic; Transatlanticism; Race and performance; Theatre history and culture
Orality, Sound, Performance Race and Ethnicity Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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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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Pia Wiegmink
Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, University of Mainz
Assistant Professor in American Studies
Literary, cultural, and performance studies; Interdependencies between abolitionist narratives, transnationalism, and conceptions of personhood
Citizenship and Democracy Orality, Sound, Performance Race and Ethnicity
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Christine ‘Xine’ Yao
University College London
Lecturer
Long nineteenth century American literature and culture; comparative racialization, intersections of Black, Indigenous, and Asian North American studies; affect studies; queer of color critique; history of science and medicine
Affect and Sense Studies Gender, Sexuality, Queer Studies Race and Ethnicity
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Tim Youngs
Nottingham Trent University
Professor of English and Travel Studies
Travel Writing; African American travel writing; Radical travel texts; Travel narratives of the interwar years
Geography, Cartography, Travel Race and Ethnicity
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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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