Stephen Burman is Professor in American Politics and History. His research interests include politics, foreign policy, and America in the world.
Robert Cook is Professor of American History. He specialises in the history of the United States in the Civil War era, Civil War memory and the civil rights movement.
Sue Currell is Senior Lecturer in American Literature. Her research interests include American literature, culture and modernism in the first half of the twentieth century as well as eugenics and popular culture and narratives of self help.
Richard Follett is Reader in American History. He has published widely on the relationship between masters and slaves in the plantation South including The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana’s Cane World, 1820–1860 (LSU, 2005), an award-winning book and a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Prize in 2007.
Doug Haynes is Lecturer in American Literature. His research area is European and American modernist, postmodernist and avant-garde writing and culture, particularly as these interface with critical theory.
Daniel Kane is Senior Lecturer in American Literature. He works on modern and contemporary American poetry and avant-garde writing, film and culture. He has written extensively on poets affiliated with the New York schools. He is currently working on a study of the relationship between the New York punk scene and modernist poetry.
Maria Lauret is Reader in American Literature. A specialist in so-called ‘minority literatures,’ she works at the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, class and sexuality.
Jarod Roll is Lecturer in American History and director of the Marcus Cunliffe Centre for the Study of the American South. His articles on American workers and religion have been published in the Journal of Southern History, Labor History and Radical History Review.
Clive Webb is a specialist on white engagement with and resistance to the modern civil rights movement. He is the author of the prize-winning Fight against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights (Georgia, 2001) and Rabble-Rousers: Militant Segregationists in the Postwar South (forthcoming, Georgia, 2010).