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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J Michelle Coghlan
University of Manchester
Lecturer in American Literature
Transatlanticism, Cultures of food and taste, Visual and material culture, Gender studies
Affect and Sense Studies Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational Visual Culture
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Emily Coit
University of Bristol
Lecturer in English
Novels and nonfiction prose; Victorian liberalism; nineteenth-century feminisms; the history of higher education; transatlantic approaches to literary study
Citizenship and Democracy Pedagogy Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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David Peters Corbett
Courtauld Institute
Professor of American Art & Director of the Centre for American Art
American Art 1850-1950, particularly painting, British Art, 1850-1950, Anglo-American Artistic Relations, Word and Image relations
Philosophy and Intellectual History Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational Visual Culture
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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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Hilary Emmett
University of East Anglia
Senior Lecturer in American Studies
Childhood Studies, Transnational and Transpacific Studies, Trauma Theory, Psychoanalysis
Affect and Sense Studies Pedagogy Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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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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Janet Floyd
King's College London
Professor of American Literature and Culture
The history of friendship in the nineteenth-century; Communities of artists and writers; The American West; Domesticity and Domestic Culture; Transatlanticism
Nationalism, Regionalism, Localism Philosophy and Intellectual History Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Linda Freedman
University College London
Lecturer in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature
Transatlanticism, Literature's relation to theology, Visual Arts
Religion and Faith Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational Visual Culture
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Chris Gair
University of Glasgow
Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature
Realism and Naturalism; Countercultures; Beat Generation; Postnational and Transatlantic Studies; Visual Culture; Sport and Literature; World’s Columbian Exposition
Philosophy and Intellectual History Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational Visual Culture
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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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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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Michael Jonik
University of Sussex
Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American and transatlantic literature, Continental philosophy, Contemporary philosophy, The history of science
Medical Humanities and Natural Sciences Philosophy and Intellectual History Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Ruth Livesey
Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Thought
Nineteenth-century literature, culture, and political thought; Provincialism; Victorian literature; Transatlanticism; Representations of American democracy in Britain
Citizenship and Democracy Philosophy and Intellectual History Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Timothy Lustig
Keele University
Head of the School of Humanities
British and American children's literature; Henry James; Mark Twain
Popular Culture and Children’s Literature Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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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 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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Michèle Mendelssohn
University of Oxford
Associate Professor in English Literature
Oscar Wilde; Henry James; Decadence; Popular Culture; Gender and Sexuality
Gender, Sexuality, Queer Studies Popular Culture and Children's Literature Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Holly-Gale Millette
Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
Senior Teaching Fellow
Late Victorian and Edwardian Transatlantic creative cultures and intersectional identity histories; spatial, political and psychosocial representations of history and culture in Gothic and New Urban Gothic texts; material culture; visual culture
Gender, Sexuality, Queer Studies Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational Visual Culture
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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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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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Stephanie Palmer
Nottingham Trent University
Senior Lecturer in American Literature
Regionalism; Women's Writing; Periodisation; Reception of American Women Authors in Britain
Gender, Sexuality, Queer Studies Nationalism, Regionalism, Localism Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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James Peacock
Keele University
Senior Lecturer in American Literature
Contemporary American Fiction; Urban Studies; Quakerism and American Literature; Detective Fiction; Transatlantic and Transnational Literary Relations
Religion and Faith Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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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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Benedict Schofield
King’s College London
Reader in German and Co-Director of the Centre for Modern Literature and Culture
Transatlantic and transnational studies; German-American cultural relations; German-American literature; the American Revolution and Germany; George Washington and Mount Vernon
Citizenship and Democracy Nationalism, Regionalism, Localism Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Peter Stoneley
University of Reading
Professor of American Literature and Culture
Transatlantic literary and cultural relations; Queer studies; Ballet; Children's literature; Oscar Wilde; Mark Twain
Gender, Sexuality, Queer Studies Popular Culture and Children's Literature Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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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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Andrew Taylor
University of Edinburgh
Senior Lecturer in American Literature
Intellectual history; historiography and contemporary fiction
Philosophy and Intellectual History Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Peter Templeton
Loughborough University
Honorary Fellow, School of Social Science and Humanities
Southern studies, transatlanticism, politics and fiction
Philosophy and Intellectual History Nationalism, Regionalism, Localism Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Eleftheria Tsirakoglou
Independent Scholar
Translation; Transnational American Studies; Edgar Allen Poe
Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational Translation Studies
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Jaap Verhuel
Universiteit Utrecht
Associate Professor of Cultural History
Cultural history; Cultural transfer; Digital humanities; Transnational and transatlantic histories
Digital Humanities Philosophy and Intellectual History Transatlantic, Transpacific, Transnational
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Tom Wright
University of Sussex
Senior Lecturer in English
Cultures of Oratory and Performance; National and Civic Identity; Media History; The Development of Modern Academic Disciplines; Transatlanticism
Citizenship and Democracy Orality, Sound, Performance 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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