British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists (BrANCA)
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Visual Culture Researchers

Ian F A Bell
Keele University
Professor of American Literature
Ezra Pound and Henry James; the intellectual history of Modernist aesthetics; American notions of artistry; Relations between history, fiction, and commercial forms; Literary negotiations with science
Medical Humanities and Natural Sciences Philosophy and Intellectual History Visual Culture
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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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Joanna Cohen
Queen Mary University of London
Senior Lecturer in American History
US Citizenship; Consumption and consumerism in the Atlantic world; American Capitalism and Political Economy; Visual and Material Culture
Class, Capitalism, the Market Citizenship and Democracy Visual Culture
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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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Antje Dallmann
Humboldt Universität Berlin
Research Fellow in American Studies
Representations and symbolizations of medicine and the "medical romance"; Science and Literature; Concepts of Narration; Urban Literatures and Cultures; Visual Cultures; Minority Studies
Medical Humanities and Natural Sciences Visual Culture
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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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Nick Gaskill
University of Oxford
Associate Professor of American Literature
Nineteenth-century literature, pragmatism, aesthetics, sensation, color, modernity
Affect and Sense Studies Philosophy and Intellectual History Visual Culture
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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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Dominic Jaeckle
Goldsmiths, University of London
PhD Candidate in English Literature and Editor of Hotel
Ralph Waldo Emerson; Capitalism; Philosophy; Film and Visual Culture; Aesthetics
Class, Capitalism, the Market Philosophy and Intellectual History Visual Culture
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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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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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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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Kristen Treen
University of St. Andrews
Lecturer in American Literature
Formal intersections of literature with objects and material states; Material cultures; Visual cultures; Civil War; Visual technologies and popular psychology
Affect and Sense Studies Book History and Material Culture Visual Culture
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  • Info
    • About Us
    • Members' Page
    • Mentoring Scheme 2023
    • Essay Prizes
    • Sign up to Mailing List
  • 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
      • Bristol, December 2023
    • Symposia >
      • Bristol 2023
      • Symposium Archive: 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