In an age of globalism, American Studies is concerned to look beyond the immediate territorial boundaries of the United States, and to situate it within the broader context of its North American neighbours.
All American Studies faculty at Sussex are actively engaged in academic research. They regularly publish and present their work internationally. Areas of expertise include: Race and Ethnicity, with particular concern for slavery and emancipation in the Caribbean and US, and for civil rights, segregation and ethnic violence; the American Civil War era and Civil War memory; American labours; Modernism; the literature of the South; contemporary fiction and poetry; autobiographical studies, and popular culture.