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2024

Jenkinson, Jade (2024) Educational Gothic: Interrogating Violent Educations in Australian, Canadian and United States Fictions 1960-present. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Sikand-Youngs, Nathaniel Rajinder (2024) Writing California, 1848-1915. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2023

Beestone, Kelly (2023) Exploring trends and tropes in young adult fantasy literature from the U.S. since 2005. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Harrison, Andrew (2023) Gender, education and family dynamics in Jewish-American fiction: 1915-1930. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Newbold, Elliot (2023) Imagining (In)Dependence: The United States and Philippine Freedom in the Age of Decolonization, 1945-1956. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Stafford, T. A. (2023) Negotiating Nashville’s Norms: Women’s Place in Post-9/11 Country Music. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Watson, Daniel (2023) Taming the Machine: Comparing UAW and ILWU Responses to Automation, 1945-1972. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2022

Campbell, Sophie Helen (2022) Beyond Abolition: Challenging the “un-visibility” of enslavement-associated commerce in England and New England. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Dyer-Johnson, Omara Samirah (2022) Imagining a Better World: Black Futurity in Contemporary Afrofuturism and Speculative Fiction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Eglen, Lauren (2022) “The Heart of the Collective”: Black Left Feminism, Black Women’s Intellectual History and Freedomways Magazine, 1930-1985. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

James, Charlotte (2022) “Heroic Souls”: Representations of the Black Female Heroism of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

bruce, keisha (2022) Curating Digital Diasporic Intimacies: Black Feminist Approaches to Visual Cultures Online. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2021

Awak-Essien, Andrew-Jay (2021) “It’s just common sense”: How the (re)production of nostalgia sustains the sex binary and perpetuates oppression in U.S. politics and culture. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Brady, Emily Rose (2021) "I Didn't Know She Took Pictures": African American Women Photographers in the Long Civil Rights Movement. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Cox, George (2021) Platformalism: Finding the Forms of Platform Literature. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Davies, Caitlin (2021) "I want to define myself by what I am instead of what I am not": Examining Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary US Graphic Memoirs. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Gallo, Steve (2021) A Central Park of their Own: Public Parks and the New South Movement, 1865-1920. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Knight, James (2021) The trap game: neoliberal governmentalities and the origins of Southern hip-hop. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Micheli, Grazia (2021) Worlding Asian American Literature: Transnationalism, Hemispherism, Planetarity. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Strongman, Alexander (2021) ‘How long do you think tt’s gonna ast?': the Velvet Underground, The Doors, Bob Dylan and the 1960s rock counterculture. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

2020

Bradshaw-Hughes, Matthew (2020) 'Got my own world to live through': race and categorisation in Jimi Hendrix's music. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Brookes, James (2020) Picturing the Civil War: visual culture of the rank and file. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Cooper, Samuel J. (2020) Interstitial literatures: contemporary North American writing and uneven development 1990-2015. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Fisher, Gary F. (2020) Acting out antiquity: representations of the Classical world in early American Theatre, 1732-1831. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Griffiths, Eleanor (2020) Holler-ing Back: Cultural (mis)representations of Appalachia in the Shadow of 2016. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Jeffery, Hannah (2020) A Monument to Blackness: Murals and the Black Freedom Struggle. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Sikand-Youngs, Nathaniel Rajinder (2020) Space, place, and literary representations of the landscapes of California, 1880-1917. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Wright, Olivia (2020) Caged sister: art and resistance in American women’s prison zines 1933-2019. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2019

Eastwood, Mark (2019) Selling the nuclear state: John F. Kennedy, national security and nuclear testing. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Green, Michelle (2019) New Body, new me?: fat women characters in North American fiction, 1976-2013. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Holmes, Thomas (2019) The Modern Confederacy in South Carolina: The Confederate Battle Flag, Confederate Memory and White Southern Identity from Centennial to Sesquicentennial. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Hughes, T. (2019) America's imagined revolution: narrative and politics in the historical novel of Reconstruction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Pickering, Joshua Osoro (2019) East Ends: race, place and community in the story of the emergence of Grime music. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Platts, Helen (2019) American nature writing, c. 1985 - 2017: the influences and limits of deep ecology. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

2018

Beestone, Kelly (2018) Charting American Habitus: an analysis of ‘middlebrow’ fiction and its readership through the prism of Donna Tartt’s published novels. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Brady, Emily (2018) "Boss Lady": the diagonal networks of African American women photographers from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Bryne, Alex (2018) Hegemony, Pan-Americanism, and national security: the meaning and application of the Monroe Doctrine in the early twentieth century. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Hamilton, Katie (2018) Reproducing the South: William Faulkner, pregnancy and the contemporary US novel. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Menzel, Sarah (2018) The politics of cultural appropriation in the contemporary USA. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Murray, Hannah-Rose (2018) “It is time for the slaves to speak:” transatlantic abolitionism and African American activism in Britain 1835-1895. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Newbold, Elliot (2018) At the end of empire: Frank Murphy, Paul V. McNutt, and the American decolonization of the Philippines, 1933-1947. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Pearce, Rosemary (2018) Mobilised emotions: public transportation in the Jim Crow era, 1896-1964. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Schrader, Timo (2018) Loisaida as urban laboratory: pioneering community activism in New York, 1964–2001. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Speed, Francesca (2018) Two way bridges and one-way roads: comparing U.S. and Canadian approaches to minority communities and counterterrorism before and after 9/11. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

2017

Bailey, Caleb (2017) Hemispheric regionalism: border discourse and the boundaries of American studies. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Bishop, Tom (2017) Every home a fortress: the fallout shelter father in Cold War America. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Costaguta, Lorenzo (2017) Which way to emancipation?: race and ethnicity in American socialist thought, 1876-1899. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Dixon, Alexandra Elizabeth (2017) “Get into the movies!”: the theme park’s relationship with post-classical Cinema. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Lilly, Alice Olivia Louise (2017) A shared moment: antipoverty policy under the New Democrats and New Labour, 1992-2005. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Murray, Hannah Lauren (2017) Inexplicable voices: liminal whiteness in Antebellum American fiction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Tiplady, John (2017) Civil liberties under siege: the U.S. federal government and the anti-Stalinist left, 1941-1958. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Wright, Olivia (2017) ‘We asked for life!’: women’s prison zines in 1970s America. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

2016

Gallo, Steven (2016) Illuminating illusion: electric light and the recreation of the sublime at Niagara Falls. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Lennon, Gavan (2016) The segregated town in mid-century southern fiction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Moody, Kimberly S. (2016) Tramps, trade union travellers, and wandering workers: how geographic mobility undermined organized labour in Gilded Age America. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Walter, Martin (2016) Vindicating the right?: populism and the origins of the Tea Party Movement. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2015

Assella, Shashikala Muthumal (2015) Contemporary South Asian American women's fiction: the "difference". PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Gothelf, Jasmine (2015) Check The Rhime!: Hip Hop as a continuation of the African American protest tradition, from David Walker’s Appeal (1829) to Kendrick Lamar’s “The Blacker the Berry”(2015). MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Verhoeven, Bart L. (2015) The rearguard of freedom: the John Birch Society and the development of modern conservatism in the United States, 1958-1968. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2014

Camastra, Małgorzata Maria (2014) "When does it stop? Does it ever stop?" - the business of being a guy: men and masculinities in Carol Shields's novels. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Janicker, Rebecca (2014) Halfway houses: liminality and the haunted house motif in popular American Gothic fiction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2012

Foster, Tim (2012) Escaping the split-level trap: postsuburban narratives in recent American fiction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2011

Ng, Sue Peng (2011) Reassuring one's friends: Richard Nixon's China policy and its impact on East and Southeast Asia, 1969-1974. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Walls, Rachel (2011) Visibility in Vancouver: screen stories and surveillance of the Downtown Eastside. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2010

Edwards, Natalie (2010) Queer British television: policy and practice, 1997-2007. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Hinchliffe, Alexander (2010) Contamination and containment: representing the pathologised other in 1950s American cinema. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Jones-Berney, Jessica K. (2010) “Giving back the gaze”: exploring complex and multifarious self-representations in the work of Myra Greene and Renée Cox. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Mazman, Alper (2010) Jazz talks: representations & self-representations of African American music and its musicians from bebop to free jazz. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Newsinger, Jack (2010) From the grassroots: regional film policy and practice in England. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Phair, Charles A.J. (2010) Navigating the Transatlantic threshold: James Fenimore Cooper and the revolutionary Atlantic. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Russell, Clare (2010) More than Mrs. Robinson: citizenship schools in Lowcountry South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia, 1957-1970. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2009

Benlemlih, Bouchra (2009) Inhabiting the exotic: Paul Bowles and Morocco. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Gorton, Ceri Martha (2009) "The things that attach people": a critical literary analysis of the fiction of Barbara Kingsolver. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Sweeting, Theodore Patrick Abraham (2009) Columbia 1968: the New York Intellectuals’ faculty response to the student sit-ins. MA(Res) thesis, University of Nottingham.

Thomson, Matthew Ian Malcolm (2009) Military computer games and the new American militarism: what computer games teach us about war. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Woodley, Jenny (2009) The cultural campaigns of the NAACP: 1910-1955. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2008

Ahn, SooJeong (2008) The Pusan International Film Festival 1996-2005: South Korean cinema in local, regional, and global context. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Burton, James Amos (2008) Film, history and cultural memory: cinematic representations of Vietnam-era America during the culture wars, 1987-1995. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

McKenna, Anthony T. (2008) Joseph E. Levine: showmanship, reputation and industrial practice 1945-1977. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Nash, Catherine (2008) Technology in the work of Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2007

Clarke, Bronagh (2007) "Muddily Human": antimodernism in the novels of Robert Kroetsch. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Foley, Matthew (2007) Post-colonial transition, aid and the cold war in South-East Asia : Britain, the United States and Burma, 1948-1962. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Moynihan, Sinéad (2007) Fictions of law and custom: passing narratives at the fins des siècles. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Smith, Will (2007) Re-placing regionalisms: Atlantic Canada in 21st century narratives. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Walls, Rachel (2007) Global, national and regional intersections in the fiction of Douglas Coupland. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham.

Willis, Andrew (2007) 'Violent exchanges : genre, national cinemas and the politics of popular films': case studies in Spanish horror and American martial arts cinema. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2006

Imms, Rhiannon (2006) Landscape as language: a comparative study of selected works by Susan Howe and Daphne Marlatt. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2005

Geraghty, Lincoln (2005) Living with Star trek: utopia, community, self-improvement and the Star trek universe. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Walsh, John (2005) A Space and Time Machine: Actuality Cinema in New York City, 1890s to c. 1905. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2004

Hutchison, Anthony (2004) Writing the Republic: liberalism and morality in American political fiction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Ings, Richard (2004) Making Harlem visible: race, photography and the American city, 1915-1955. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

McMullan, Paloma (2004) Corporeal territories: the body in American narratives of the Vietnam war. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Stubbings, Sarah (2004) From modernity to memorial: the changing meanings of the 1930s cinema in Nottingham. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2003

Hutchinson, Yvette (2003) Separating the substance from the noise: a survey of the Black arts movement. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Jeongmee, Kim (2003) Social art cinema of the 1990s: commodifying the concept of British National Cinema. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2002

Bernier, Celeste-Marie (2002) "Dusky powder magazines": the Creole revolt (1841) in nineteenth century American literature. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Bone, Martyn (2002) Postsouthern cartographies: capital, land and place from 'The Moviegoer' to 'A man in full'. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Brookes, Ian (2002) Coming home: veteran readjustment, postwar conformity and American film narratives, 1945-1948. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2001

Greenham, David (2001) Norman O. Brown, Herbert Marcuse and the romantic tradition. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Williams, Rachel L. (2001) No job for a lady: women directors in Hollywood. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Yuill, Kevin (2001) An unlikely hero: the origins of affirmative action during the Nixon administration. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

2000

Grainge, Paul (2000) Monochrome memories: nostalgia and style in 1990s America. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1998

Holman, Rupert (1998) Memorializing, allegory and the rewriting of Nathaniel Hawthorne. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Laville, Helen (1998) "A woman's place is in the Cold War": American women's organizations and international relations 1945-1965. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1997

Harrison, Colin (1997) Heretical necessity: Herman Melville and the fictions of charity. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1996

Halliwell, Martin (1996) Keeping the door open: romantic science and the experience of self. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1994

Nesteruk, Peter (1994) Referentiality and transgression: representations of incest and child sexual abuse in American literature of the twentieth century. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Porter, Joy (1994) American Indian identity in the life of Arthur Caswell Parker, 1881-1955. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1988

Smith, Hazel (1988) The sense of neurotic coherence: structural reversals in the poetry of Frank O'Hara. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1985

Dorling, Alan (1985) Experimental forms in contemporary fiction. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1980

Madocks, Rodney (1980) The incomplete text and the ardent core: the role of unfulfilment in the work of Vladimir Nabokov. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

Walenda, Marianne Kate (1980) Vladimir Nabokov's comic quest for reality. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

1978

Mackenzie, Ursula A. (1978) The reaction against realism in contemporary American fiction: a study of the work of John Hawkes, John Barth and Thomas Pynchon. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.