Postgraduate research

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
• Postwar 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:

• Email: eithne.quinn@manchester.ac.uk

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.