Senior Lecturer in American and Canadian Studies
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 5750
Email m.aaron@bham.ac.uk
I have supervised to completion PhD and MPhil students on a broad range of topics.
I currently have PhD students working on Fatherhood in 1990s Hollywood, the Psychiatric Institution in Cinema and Self-representation in contemporary artists' moving image work through a queer-theory framework.
I welcome research proposals that fall within my broad research interests but am open to suggestions on related topics.
Professor of American Studies
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 5509
Email r.j.ellis@bham.ac.uk
Dick Ellis has supervised PhDs on Surveillance and Sexuality in American Fiction, The American Sublime, Ann Tyler, the Beats and the work of George Lippard.
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American and Canadian Studies Admissions Tutor
Telephone +44 (0)121 4147812
Email j.m.fagg@bham.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Canadian Studies
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 6611
Email d.fuller@bham.ac.uk
I have supervised postgraduate research on Maritime short fiction, on the publishing history and institutionalisation of Margaret Atwood’s work in Central Europe, South-East Asian Canadian literature, Canadian film, Asian-American film, and an inter-textual study of women’s writing by Faye Hammill subsequently published as Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000 (Rodopi, 2003) and winner of the Pierre Savard Award for best book in English by a “foreign” Canadianist 2004.
I am currently supervising PhD work on Newfoundland literature; US lesbian feminist textual communities and lesbian pulp fictions (1950s), and a study of globalisation in the oeuvre of Douglas Coupland.
I would particularly like to encourage you to contact me if you are interested in:
- readers and reading in 21st-century UK and/or North America (f2f and online)
- book events, book festivals and arts organizations involved with print culture
- contemporary Canadian prose writing (including US/Canadian comparative projects)
Senior Lecturer in American and Canadian Studies
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 434
Email s.r.hewitt@bham.ac.uk
I’m interested in supervising MA and PhD students doing topics related to security and intelligence, anti-Americanism, and Canadian history and politics.
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Senior Lecturer in American Studies
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 5737
Email h.laville@bham.ac.uk
I have supervised postgraduate students on topics such as the history of oral contraceptive, the representation of gender in American musicals, Higher Education in the United States and the role of political machines in American politics.
Lecturer in American History
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 5745
Email r.m.lewis@bham.ac.uk
I have supervised PhD dissertations on emigration from Shropshire, and from Birmingham, to Canada in the nineteenth- and in the early-twentieth centuries. Currently, I supervised two part-time Ph.D. dissertations, one on John Adams and critical issues in foreign policy in 1798, and the other on songs and Irish-American identity in nineteenth-century New York City.
Professor of American Studies
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 5740
Email w.s.lucas@bham.ac.uk
Scott Lucas is currently supervising 10 Master's and PhD dissertations in US Foreign Policy from 1945 to the Present; US-Iranian Relations; US and the Middle East; British Foreign Policy; Politics, Film, and Television.
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Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies
Telephone +44 (0)121 415 8333
Email j.r.walters@bham.ac.uk
I welcome PhD applications in the areas of film and television studies.
Lecturer in American Literature and Culture
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 5681
Email s.k.wood@bham.ac.uk
I welcome research proposals on twentieth-century American visual art and literature.