Author: George Cox

George Cox is a PhD student in the department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. His research examines how metaphors of vision and mediation in nineteenth-century Transcendentalist literature are repurposed in contemporary works representing – and being structured by – the internet and social media.
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Event Review: Student-Led Midlands3Cities American Studies Retreat, 22nd – 29th June 2018

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Between the 22nd and 29th of June, 2018, a group of research students from across the East Midlands – united by a shared passion for American Studies – gathered in Matlock, Derbyshire, with the intention of bursting their academic bubbles. This academic retreat was a student-led project generously funded by the Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M3C) and was attended by both M3C and non-M3C PhD candidates representing Birmingham City University, Nottingham Trent University, the University of Leicester, and the University of Nottingham. Continue reading