The Americanist research group at Goldsmiths offers a vital contribution to the understanding of American literature and culture.
Offering an extensive and varied understanding of American literature, our collective research focuses on a number of significant and growing fields, including visual culture, eco-criticism, hemispheric American Studies, group biography and aesthetic resistance in contemporary indigenous literature and art.
Our research explores many of the key topics that shaped American literature and culture during the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
By engaging with a broad set of interests our work shows that current understandings of literary convention and traditional form can be enriched—and challenged—through the consideration of material objects, oral traditions, performance art and inventive literary and artistic practices.
We take great pride in the fact that our pioneering research reflects our mission to embrace the more complex perceptions of American literature, society and history that exist today.
Our writing is informed by this principle, and we are deeply committed to the process of establishing dynamic pedagogical approaches that both reveal and enable more diverse means of understanding U.S. literature and culture.
Our research is greatly informed by our teaching, and our teaching serves as a constant reminder of the interests and issues that are most pressing in today’s world.
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