Douglas Tallack

Professor of American Studies and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Nottingham. His publications include: Twentieth Century America, The Nineteenth-Century American Short-Story, Literary Theory at Work (ed.) and Critical Theory: A Reader (ed.) more details. He has won the Arthur Miller Prize on two occasions, most recently for the electronic essay on Jacob Riis which is included in City Sites. Professor Tallack is Director of this AHRB Three American Cities project and, in this context, is researching a book provisionally entitled City Sights: Visuality, Space and Modernity in New York City, 1870s to 1930s. Research interests include: American intellectual and cultural history, American visual culture and theory, Literary and Visual Representations of American, Cities, The Short Story, Modernism and post-modernism, Critical Theory.

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Anna Notaro

BA in Modern Languages (Naples) MA in The Language and Philosophy of Criticism (Sheffield) Ph.D English Lit. (Sheffield). From February 1995 to April 1997 Leverhulme Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, title of the research project: ‘Imperial Cities: Landscape, Space and performance in Rome and London, 1850-1950’. Currently, Research Fellow in Visual Culture working on the Three American Cities Project, School of American & Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham. She is researching a book provisionally entitled Just Imagine: Visions of the Future in the American Metropolis, 1890s-1930s. Areas of current teaching and research include: American & European Visual Culture, Art History (American and European avant-garde movements, 1915-1935, American painting, especially New York), Film Studies (Cinema & the City, Cinema and Architecture), Theories of Representation and Architectural History.

Liam Kennedy

BA (Ulster), MA, PhD (Nottingham). Lecturer in American Studies at University of Birmingham. Areas of current research include representations of urban space in American Literature and film, theories of space and identity, urban ethnicity, early twentieth century multi-ethnic Chicago. Publications include Race and Urban Space in Contemporary American Culture (Edinburgh UP 2000) and co-edited with Maria Balshaw, Urban Space and Representation (Pluto, 2000).

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BA (Liverpool) MA, D.Phil (Sussex). Former lecturer in Cultural Theory and Literary Studies, Nene College of Higher Education. Currently, Research Fellow in American Literature, Dept. of American and Canadian studies, University of Birmingham. Areas of research include: gender and cultural theory, race and representation, African-American literature and culture, film and film theory, popular culture. Current research is on urban African-American literature and culture, particularly the Harlem Renaissance period; and race, urban space and popular representation. Publications include: Looking for Harlem: Urban Aesthetics in African American Literature (Pluto, 2000) and co-edited with Dr Liam Kennedy, Urban Space and Representation (Pluto, 2000).