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American Studies Research
|MPhil/PhD
|Part Time, Full Time
RESEARCH PROFILE
- Current number of academic staff: 7
- Current number of research students: 20
- Recent publications: • The Cambridge Companion to WEB DuBois. • Colonial Encounters in New World Writing: Performing America • Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow. • Imperial Entanglements: Iroquois Change and Persistence on the Frontiers of Empire. • Living for the Revolutions: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 • Writing the Pioneer Woman
- Partner organisations: The Department is regularly involved in collaborative partnerships with major cultural institutions, as with the American Museum in Britain (Bath) and the British Museum. Informal and formal exchange relationships for postgraduate students are in place with the University of North Carolina and the University of Hong Kong.
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Dr Uta Balbier, Co-ordinator, Institute of North American Studies
Duration
Expected to be: MPhil two years FT, three years PT. PhD three years FT, four-six years PT. Normal start date September but students may commence at other times by arrangement.
Location
Strand Campus
Student destinations
Students receiving supervision from American Studies staff have gone on to research associateships and teaching at US and UK institutions, including Cambridge, Dundee, Leeds Metropolitan, Nottingham and Plymouth University.
Year of entry 2012
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