Postgraduate research
As a major concentration of high-quality research and teaching, we foster a vibrant postgraduate community and offer a range of research opportunities.
View our programmes, and the support available for our postgraduate researchers.
Programmes
We can offer a very wide range of supervision, thanks to the diverse expertise of our academic staff.
We also have a strong record of success in joint supervision, where a PhD student works with two supervisors who have complementary specialist fields.
We welcome applications from research students interested in any the following areas:
- Black popular culture, esp. popular music and cinema
- Post-war cultural industries
- Blaxploitation, hip-hop and gangsta rap
- Transnational American Studies
- The cultural history of capitalism
- Conspiracy theories
- Postmodern American literature
- Screen-writing in Hollywood
- Film and politics
- Cultural and political history of California
- Civil War
- History of the south
- American literary realism
- Representations of illness
- American gay and lesbian writing and visual representation
- Psychoanalysis, gender, and queer theory
- Colonial British American and Atlantic history
- Slavery and race
- Gender (esp. masculinity), and material culture
If you would like to pursue postgraduate research in any of the above areas, or wish to discuss a research proposal in any aspect of American Studies, please feel free to get in touch with Eithne Quinn using the email address below:
Postgraduate researchers in American Studies work on a wide range of topics. Find out what some of our current PhD students are working on.
Explore the research topics undertaken by some of our past PhD students.
