Andy Duncan

Andrew Duncan is a Midlands 4 Cities funded PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of Nottingham. He holds an MPhil in Literatures of the Americas from Trinity College Dublin and a BA in English Literature from the University of Sheffield. His PhD thesis is provisionally titled: ÒDope Music: Representations of the ÔWar on DrugsÕ in Hip-Hop Lyricism from New York.Ó He is also the general editor of 49th Parallel, an interdisciplinary journal of North American studies.