Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I am keen to work with research students exploring pre-1945 American art, realist and proletarian art and literature, and nineteenth and twentieth century (American) print culture and illustration. But as below I have supervised on a range of late-nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first- century American literature, visual art, and culture topics and would be very happy to discuss projects in these areas.
Current supervisions
Mid-Twentieth Century American Small-Town Narratives
Representation of women in 1930s proletarian literature
Pre-histories of Greenwich Village circa 1913
John Sloan as Reader and Writer (MRes)
Recent completions:
Rosalind Fursland, Early-twentieth-century New York as Improvised Theatrical Space (2018)
Rebecca Justice, Falling Through the Meshwork: Images of Falling Through 9/11 and Beyond (2016)
Dan Milner, Songs and Integration of the New York Irish, 1783-1883 (2017)
Alexander Moran, Cultural Reproduction in Contemporary American Fiction (2017)
Past completions
Rebecca Cobby, “Emperors of Masculinity”: Representing African American Men in Black Visual Art (co-supervisor with Celeste-Marie Bernier, University of Nottingham, 2012)
Jenny Woodley, Art for Equality: The NAACP's Cultural Campaign for Civil Rights (co-supervisor with Peter Ling, University of Nottingham, 2011)
Mark Storey, Urban Modernity and Rural Representation in Postbellum American Fiction (co-supervisor with Peter Messent, University of Nottingham, 2010)
Research activity per year