RESEARCH - We have three distinct thematic areas of research strength, covering the critical issues in American studies today. Our research themes cross disciplinary boundaries and combine the expertise of our academic staff. Race, gender and civil liberties; The American environment, places and spaces; Comparative American studies, the avant garde and the counterculture. Your classes will be research led, and you will become an active member of our research community. You will have the opportunity to explore your interests in depth under supervision during your dissertation. Themes our students have explored in classes and in dissertation project work include: African-American and Native American history and literature; Cold War and American international relations; Gender, race, and sexuality; Great American historical figures; American religion; Youth cultures and subcultures; American superheroes, feminism and neo-liberalism; Native American literature and land; The politics of environmental pollution; Transnational American culture; The works of American writers from Mark Twain to Leslie Marmon Silko to David Foster Wallace to Toni Morrison, covering modern and postmodern, contemporary and newly emerging writing. www.uea.ac.uk/ams/pgr STUDENT RESEARCH - We welcome applications for PhDs, MPhil degrees and Master’s by Research. You’ll be supervised by a team of at least two faculty members. If you are interested in applying for a research degree, please feel free to contact academic staff directly. Our current students are working on groundbreaking topics including representations of mixed-race women in early 20th-century America, the work of Louisa May Alcott and Christina Rossetti, and the poetry of Charles Bernstein, AR Ammons, and Susan Howe. For contact details and research interests see: www.uea.ac.uk/ams/people RESEARCH EVENTS AND RESEARCH SKILLS TRAINING - As a postgraduate student you will be part of a vibrant research community that brings faculty and students together regularly. You’ll participate in our research seminars, where visiting speakers and American studies staff and students come together to present and discuss papers based on their research. You’ll also develop your research and professional skills through sessions organised by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities Graduate School.