Book Hour with David Watson’s Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction
The next U.S. Studies Online Book Hour will take place 28th April 2023, at 4pm GMT/12pm EST with Dr. David Riddle Watson and his first monograph, Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan Crime Files Series, 2021). Dr. Watson teaches at Central Carolina Community College. He completed his Ph.D. in 2019 from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His work focuses on the intersection between rhetoric, literature, and real-world events. He is currently working on his second monograph Surveillance Noir, which will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2024. Truth to Post-Truth traces the networks of thought about what is real and what is not from the Vietnam War through the end of the Cold War and the rise of the “post-truth” moment of our present day. The book is a philosophical journey through post-truth America. Furthermore, the book examines questions of truth and relativism, turning to detectives, both […]
Continue ReadingBook Hour with Dr. Kevin Waite, the author of West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire
The next U.S. Studies Online Book Hour will take place 17th March 2023, at 4pm GMT with Dr. Kevin Waite, who will talk with us about his first – and award-winning – book, West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire (The University of North Carolina Press, 2021) Dr. Waite is a political historian of the 19th-century United States with a focus on slavery, imperialism and the American West. He received his PhD in 2016 from University of Pennsylvania, and currently holds a position as the Associate Professor of Modern American History in the Department of History at the University of Durham. Dr. Waite will, firstly, speak of his award-winning first book, West of Slavery, in which he explores how American Southerner slaveholders extended their political dominion across the American West in the mid-19th century, and in the process triggered series of events that, ultimately, hastened the coming of […]
Continue ReadingAmerican Studies across Borders: International Opportunities for PhDs and Postdocs
International experience has become a prerequisite for success in academia – but depending on how you look at it, this can be exciting and terrifying in equal measure. In the second interview of this series, I talk to Dr. David Bosold of the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Berlin about transatlantic relationships, career development, and dreams of meeting US footballers.
Continue ReadingMy Research across Borders: Lonneke Geerlings
‘My Research’ is a new feature that aims to introduce and summarise the research of Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers within the field of American and Canadian Studies. Sit back, and get to know some of the craziest, challenging, and rewarding places researchers have been taken to…
Continue ReadingAmerican Studies across Borders: International Opportunities for PhDs and Postdocs
International experience has become a prerequisite for success in academia – but depending on how you look at it, this can be exciting and terrifying in equal measure. I’m launching a new USSO series about how to take your research across borders, talking to representatives of those institutions and programs that can help PhDs and postdocs build an international profile. The Terra Foundation for American Art is my first interview partner.
Continue ReadingMy Career Story: Matthew Shaw, Librarian
U.S. Studies Online is excited to introduce our new segment “Career Stories”. Our “Career Stories” feature is an attempt to incorporate more professional development posts on U.S. Studies Online and address some of the wider anxieties in the postgraduate and early career cohorts regarding employment, employability and the options available. We hope to include interviews with professionals in a variety of research or American studies related positions. With us this week is Matthew Shaw, Librarian at the Institute of Historical Research. Current role How would you describe your current role at a job interview? Looking after a unique library that supports historical research not just in London, but nationally and across the world. It’s both a time capsule of how historical thinking has developed, and at the forefront of digital developments. What professional organizations are you associated with and in what ways? British Association for American Studies has been vital for keeping up with […]
Continue ReadingMy Career Story: Philip Hatfield, Curator at the British Library
U.S. Studies Online is excited to introduce our new segment “Career Stories”. Our “Career Stories” feature is an attempt to incorporate more professional development posts on U.S. Studies Online and address some of the wider anxieties in the postgraduate and early career cohorts regarding employment, employability and the options available. We hope to include interviews with professionals in a variety of research or American studies related positions. With us this week is Philip Hatfield, Curator for Digital Mapping at the British Library. From 2011-2015 Philip was also the Curator for the Canadian, Caribbean and U. S. Collections at the British Library. He holds a PhD in Cultural Geography. Current role How would you describe your current role at a job interview? I’m responsible for managing born digital maps and digitised historic old maps at the British Library, as well as helping researchers engage with this material in innovative ways. The Library also holds a developing body […]
Continue ReadingMy Career Story: Rachel Walls, Academic Skills Development Tutor
U.S. Studies Online is excited to introduce our new segment “Career Stories”. With us this week is Rachel Walls, Academic Skills Development Tutor at the University of Leeds. Rachel holds a PhD in Canadian Studies from the University of Nottingham.
Continue ReadingMy Career Story: Philip Davies, Director of the David and Mary Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library
U.S. Studies Online is excited to introduce our new segment “Career Stories”. This feature is an attempt to incorporate more professional development posts on U.S. Studies Online and address some of the wider anxieties in the postgraduate and early career cohorts regarding employment and employability. We hope to include interviews with professionals in a variety of research or American studies related positions. With us this week is Professor Philip Davies, Director of the David and Mary Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library since 2002. Current role How would you describe your current role at a job interview? I create and manage a programme of fellowships, activities, events, and acquisitions to enhance the work of the British Library in relation to North America. The British Library’s collection of materials relating to North America is the largest anywhere in the world outside the USA. In order to increase awareness of the Library’s North American holdings, and […]
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