Our research focuses on North America itself, as well examining the exchange of influences between North American cultures and those of Asia, Europe and the Americas. Work in the department reflects and leads a growing transnational agenda and research students are encouraged to think about America in a global context. We have long-standing experience and expertise in supervising PhDs to successful completion. Particular areas of research specialism include:African American literature, history and cultureAmerican art and visual cultureAmerican intellectual historyAmerican labour historyAmerican music and popular cultureAmerican political historyAmerican print culture and book historyAsian American literature and cultureBorder studiesCivil rights and social justiceContemporary American fictionCrime, prisons and criminal justiceFeminist theoryGender and queer studiesIndigenous cultureLatinx cultureMemory StudiesNineteenth-century American literature and cultureUS foreign policy