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Job: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in English (University of Roehampton)

Applications are invited for a full-time, without-term Lecturer/Senior Lectureship in English Literature. We are looking for suitably qualified candidates with research interests and teaching  experience in one or more of the following areas: Romanticism, American literature (particular expertise in African-American writing may be an advantage), ecocriticism or queer theory. If your specialism falls outside these areas but you would like to be considered for a post please apply through the ‘2017 campaign route’. The University of Roehampton is the most research intensive modern university in the UK, with some of the highest regarded academic departments in the country. This is an exciting time for the university, with investment in new curricula, the construction of a new £35m state-of-the-art library and student accommodation, the development of a number of external partnerships across the globe and plans for more doctoral scholarships. We have a strong emphasis on supporting our students to reach […]

Rethinking the Post-war History of Gay Life and Politics in the US (Cambridge American History Seminar)

The Lent term schedule for the Cambridge American History Seminar and American History events, including details of which seminars have pre-circulated papers,  is now available here: http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/seminars/american-history-seminar  All seminars are held on Mondays at 5:00 PM in the Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College, unless otherwise indicated. 6 March: George Chauncey, Samuel Knight Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University Rethinking the Post-war History of Gay Life and Politics in the US

UCL American Studies Seminar: ‘Rating the American Presidents from George Washington to Donald Trump: A UK Perspective’ (UCL)

Rating the American Presidents from George Washington to Donald Trump: A UK Perspective Mar 8, 2017 6:00 PM – Venue: UCL Archaeology Lecture Theatre, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY Michael Patrick Cullinane (Roehampton), Iwan Morgan (UCL), Simon Rofe (SOAS) - This event unveils the results of a poll of 71 UK scholars specializing in American history and US politics. The survey rated the performance of American presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama in five categories: vision/agenda setting; domestic leadership; foreign policy leadership; moral authority; and the positive historical significance of their legacy. More about this event. Register to attend this free event

CFP: Surveillance, Race, Culture (Edited Collection)

Surveillance, Race, Culture Call for Papers Dr Susan Flynn, University of Arts, London. s.flynn@lcc.arts.ac.uk Dr Antonia Mackay, Oxford Brookes University Oxford. antoniamackay@brookes.ac.uk Drawing on huge interest in the upcoming collection Spaces of Surveillance: States and Selves which is currently in press this new collection seeks to merge cultural explorations of surveillance with the issue of race. We wish to examine how culture produces or reproduces power relations via the surveillant technologies which have captured the cultural imagination. Through a critical reading of contemporary and historic narratives of race and surveillance, we seek to illustrate the ongoing cultural fascination with technologies of control and surveillance. The current global moment is one of extreme cultural upheaval; political populism, the ‘alt right’ and the greatest movement of peoples since World War 2 are coupled with the increasing salience of surveillant technologies and regimes. At this juncture in history, with exclusionary policies, increasing racism […]

CFP: Trump’s America (University College Dublin)

Trump’s America Clinton Institute for American Studies University College Dublin 5-6 May 2017 Call for Papers This conference will examine the political and cultural significance of Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States, and consider the first 100 days of his administration. Speakers include: Robert Brigham (Vassar College), Scott Lucas (University of Birmingham/EAWorldview), Diane Negra (University College Dublin), Inderjeet Parmar (City, University of London), Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College). Topics may include but are not confined to: “Make America Great Again” – American exceptionalism, nostalgia “America First” – foreign policy and diplomacy “Protect our borders” – immigration and terrorism “Drain the swamp” - Washington elites, lobbying and corruption “A historic movement” – white nationalism, identity politics, protest “American carnage” – dystopian visions of the US, narratives of decline “Crime and gangs and guns” – race and the cities, gun violence, civic anxiety “Fake news” – politics in the […]

CFP: Winning the Western Approaches: Unrestricted Submarine Warfare and the US Navy in Ireland, 1917-18 (University College Cork)

Winning the Western Approaches: Unrestricted Submarine Warfare and the US Navy in Ireland, 1917-18 University College Cork 5 – 7 July 2017 Industrial warfare during the First World War extended underwater, as submarines destroyed up to 5,000 vessels and altered the course of the conflict. Germany’s resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in early 1917 brought the United States into the war and created severe Allied shipping losses and dangerous food shortages. A transatlantic convoy system introduced that year relied heavily on US Navy escort vessels based in Ireland and France. These American escorts helped bring Allied shipping losses under control and protect troop ships packed with American soldiers bound for France. The American naval presence in Europe contributed to the final defeat of the Central Powers and announced the arrival of a new military power. This multi-disciplinary conference will explore the consequences of underwater warfare during the First World War, […]

Job: Assistant Professor of American Literature and Cultures (University of Warwick)

The Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick intends to appoint an Assistant Professor in American Literature and Culture from 1900 to the present from 15 September 2017. Any twentieth- or twenty-first century period or specialism will be considered, but candidates should demonstrate engagement with the changing dynamics of the field, including (though not limited to) evolving interests in American literature and culture as world literature and culture; critical theory; digital, graphic, and print media studies; gender and sexuality studies; comparative race and ethnicity studies; materialist ecocriticism; televisual or screen narrative; temporal studies; and other innovative frameworks. We seek candidates with an active interest in program building, developing new offerings at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Please note that appointments at Assistant Professor level entail a period of probation (normally 5 years). You will possess a PhD or equivalent; will have an emergent or already […]

America in the ‘Asian Century’ (Nottingham University)

America in the 'Asian Century' Nottingham University Tue, 14 March 2017 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM GMT The future of North America's relations with Asia is uncertain. A recent upsurge in political nationalism on both sides of the Pacific has called into question the capacity, and will, of the United States and Canada to sustain their influence across the region. President Obama’s “pivot” towards Asia polarised opinion at home and abroad, garnering support and suspicion in equal measure. In Canada, Prime Minster Trudeau’s emphasis on “cross-Pacific profit” has been criticised for subordinating issues of security. A one-day symposium convened by the University of Nottingham’s Department of American & Canadian Studies, in association with the Institute of Asia & Pacific Studies, brings together leading scholars from across the globe to historicise and debate, through an array of regional and thematic prisms, North America’s increasingly tumultuous relationship with Asia. Tickets can be […]

Angela Carter and the Americas (University of Glasgow)

"Angela Carter and the Americas" - Dr Heidi Yeandle (Swansea University) Transatlantic Literary Women Series - University of Glasgow The series will explore the lives and writings of transatlantic women in all genres from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Themes may include: female writers’ involvement in the transatlantic anti-slavery network, campaigning for (and against) suffrage, famous “others”, transatlanticism in a digital age, transatlantic modernisms, Edith Wharton: adaptations of transatlanticism, race and class, transatlantic poetics. Room TBC, more information available here: https://transatlanticladies.wordpress.com/events/

Public Talk: America in a Global Perspective (LSE)

Anxiety, Fear and National Identity: Anti-Immigration Politics and the Rise of Latino Power in the US Neil Foley explores how the surge in immigration since the 1970s has led to increasing levels of xenophobia resulting in anti-immigrant politics and policies, including militarization of the border, state laws curtailing rights of undocumented immigrants, mass detention and deportation, the building of a 700-mile border fence in 2006, and Donald Trump’s recent promise to build a wall along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico.  With over a million U.S.-born Latinos turning 18 years of age every year and therefore eligible to vote, many aging whites wonder if American can ever be ‘great again.’ Foley is the Robert and Nancy Dedman Endowed Chair in History at Southern Methodist University.  He the author of Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity and Mexicans and the Making of America, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2015. […]

PhD Studentship: Authority and Trust in American Culture, Society, History, and Politics (University of Heidelberg)

The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) at Heidelberg University, Germany, invites applications for a Three-Year Position (Part-Time, 65%) (October 1, 2017 – September 30, 2020) in a Research Training Group (DFG-Graduiertenkolleg) on Authority and Trust in American Culture, Society, History, and Politics Funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), the interdisciplinary Training Group will focus on three broadly defined research areas: (1) the authority of the modern state and trust in public and social institutions; (2) the urban dimension of authority and trust; (3) authority and trust in literature, culture and religion. We target postgraduates with a background in the following disciplines: American Studies, geography, history, linguistics, literature and culture, political science, social science, and religious studies. Applicants must be fluent in English; hold an excellent master’s degree or equivalent; and propose an innovative dissertation project within the thematic focus of the Training Group. Collegiates must take residence in Heidelberg […]

Pocahontas and after: historical culture and transatlantic encounters, 1617-2017 (British Library)

Pocahontas and after: historical culture and transatlantic encounters, 1617-2017 The British Library and the Institute of Historical Research, London March 16-18, 2017 A major international conference to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Pocahontas’ death. Cohosted by the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library and the Institute of Historical Research. Additional support has been provided by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and The University of Warwick. In 2017 the Anglo-American world will mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Pocahontas. Numerous commemorative activities, from walking tours to talking monuments, have been planned on both sides of the Atlantic. Intense, closely focused interest in her life is, of course, not a new phenomenon. Her story has been romanticised at many points over the centuries, and multiple representations of Pocahontas (as Noble Savage, Mother of a Nation, propaganda icon, seductive temptress) have materialised in historical […]