Staff : American Studies

Staff in the Centre

Member of staff	Research Interests
Dr Guy Barefoot Lecturer in American Film/SSCC Convenor	American and British Cinema, Film Melodrama, the Film Serial
Dr James Campbell Lecturer in American History/Careers Tutor	19th Century History, Race and Slavery in the Americas, Criminal Justice in the US
Professor James Chapman Chair of Film Studies	Film and Television History, Film, War and Propaganda, World Cinema, Popular Fiction
Dr Elizabeth Clapp Senior Lecturer in American History/ Director of Teaching	American Women’s History, Women Reformers, Female Travel Writing, African-American History
Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock Lecturer in Early Modern History	Aztec History, the Atlantic World, Spanish America, Colonial Americas, Histories of Gender and Violence
Mr Nick Everett Lecturer in American Literature/Admissions Tutor	19th and 20th Century Literature, Romanticism, Poetic Form, Autobiography
Dr Sarah Graham Lecturer in American Literature/Year 1 Tutor/ PDP Tutor	Contemporary American Literature, Modernist Poetry, Women's Writing, Representations of Adolescence
Professor Martin Halliwell Director and Chair of American Studies/Year Abroad Tutor	20th Century Literature, American Film post-1945, Cultural and Intellectual History, US Visual Culture
Dr Andrew Johnstone Lecturer in American History/Web Officer	20th Century History, US Foreign Relations, Vietnam, FDR and US Entry into World War II.
Dr George Lewis Reader in American History/Examinations Officer	20th Century History, Civil Rights, White Supremacy, US Anti-Communism
Dr Paloma McMullan Lecturer in American Literature	19th and 20th Century Literature, Postmodern Writing, Vietnam Literature, Trauma Theory
Dr Catherine Morley Lecturer in American Literature	Contemporary American Literature; Transatlantic and Transnational Cultures; American Modernism
Dr Sheldon Penn Lecturer in Latin American Studies	20th Century Latin American Literature and Culture, The US-Mexico Border, Mexican Cinema
Professor Mark Phythian Chair of Politics	International Security, Arms Trade, Intelligence and Surveillance, US and UK Foreign Policy
Dr Adam Quinn Lecturer in American Politics	Contemporary US Foreign Policy, History of US Foreign Policy, American Political Ideology
Dr J. Simon Rofe Lecturer in American Politics	US Foreign Relations, Anglo-American Relations, 20th Century US History
Dr Alex Waddan Senior Lecturer in American Politics/Dissertations Tutor	US Politics, Contemporary History, US Foreign Policy, Social Welfare and Presidential Politics
Mrs Linda Benson Secretary to the Centre
Mrs Jo Curtis Secretary