About

I am part of the senior management team that runs the University's Joint Honours scheme. My academic background is in American (U.S.) cultural, intellectual and political history.

Research interests

• American literary and visual cultures since the Civil War
• 9/11 and the war on terror, and the culture and politics of the post-9/11 era generally
• The fiction of Cormac McCarthy

Recent publications

My books include 9/11 and the War on Terror (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008), co-published in the U.S. and Canada as Cultures of the War on Terror: Empire, Ideology, and the Remaking of 9/11 (Montreal: McGill Queen's University Press, 2008).

I also wrote The Late Modernism of Cormac McCarthy (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002), and co-edited American Visual Cultures (New York: Continuum, 2005). I have written for journals including The Southern Quarterly, Comparative Literature Studies, The Cormac McCarthy Journal, and PUBLIC: Art/Culture/Ideas, and have contributed chapters to a variety of edited book-collections on American cultural and intellectual history.

Professional interests

American (U.S.) thought, culture and politics from the Civil War to the present. Multi and interdisciplinary teaching and learning.

Qualifications

Undergraduate qualifications

• BA (Hons) English, University of Nottingham

Postgraduate qualifications

• MA American Studies, University of Nottingham

Research qualifications

• PhD American Studies, University of Nottingham

Recent conferences

• Keynote address at the Third European Conference of the Cormac McCarthy Society. Free University of Berlin, Germany. July 7-9, 2016
• Keynote address at Blood Meridian Workshop. University of Warwick, UK. November 20, 2015
• Keynote address at Paradigms of Power. The Third Annual Community College of Qatar Humanities Conference. Doha, Qatar. March 25-26, 2015
• Keynote address at Borders and Landscape in the Works of Cormac McCarthy conference. University of Western Sydney, Australia. July 23-25, 2014
• Keynote address at The Insurgent, Myth and Fiction: An Interdisciplinary Symposium. University of Reading, UK. July 21, 2012