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Sharon Monteith is Professor of American Studies. She works in interdisciplinary Southern Studies-- researching the US South in cultural history, film, media and fiction. Her books include Advancing Sisterhood?: Interracial Friendships in Southern Fiction (University of Georgia Press, 2000) which maps a feminist taxonomy of female friendship and of whiteness studies and explores relationships between black and white women as represented in southern literature through a wide range of authors and with particular focus on Ellen Douglas, Kaye Gibbons Carol Dawson, Lane von Herzen. It focuses on white women writers who grappled with interracial relationships in literature and popular culture prior to the interest in and controversy over Kathryn Stockett's The Help. In her book American Culture in the 1960s (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), Monteith argues that it is impossible to understand the Sixties without recourse to the southern freedom struggle. She published (with Paul Grainge and Mark Jancovich) Film Histories (EUP/Toronto, 2006). She was awarded a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship to work on Race and Gender in the Mississippi Delta in 2001-2 and most recently co-edited the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Media with Allison Graham.
Together with Prof. Nahem Yousaf (Nottingham Trent University), she edits the Manchester University Press series of monographs Contemporary American and Canadian Writers.
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogue/aseries.asp?id=56
Please email proposals for new books in the series to both editors.
Monteith publishes extensively on contemporary British fiction and culture . She was the first person to write a book about award-winning novelist Pat Barker whose writing she has followed since 1982. She has interviewed Pat Barker on a number of occasions including publicly at the Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival and has spoken about her work on BBC radio and presented on Barker in the US, Scandinavia and Britain. She published Pat Barker (2002) and is writing a second edition. She co-edited Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker (2005) and Contemporary British and Irish Fiction: An Introduction Through Interview (2005).
Monteith has supervised some 20 PhD students to completion on a variety of topics including Southern literature, the civil rights movement, political cinema, the American 1960s, US intellectual and cultural history, contemporary British fiction, figures such as Frank Sinatra and Muhammad Ali, writers including William Faulkner and Pat Barker, and issues such as gender, race and, region . With Helen Foster she published "Writing a Research Proposal, Securing an Offer and Applying for Funding" The Research Student's Companion (London: Sage, 2008)
Prof. Monteith welcomes applications from students who wish to follow M.Res or PhD study on the US South and ideas of region, culture and identity, especially in a transnational or global framework; on issues of race and representation in the twentieth- and twenty-first century United States; on southern literature, the Civil Rights Movement, particularly the Movement or the 1960s as represented in film, fiction and in cultural memory; and on the American 1960s in intellectual history. She is interested in the decade's relationship to different cultural forms. She would welcome applications from students of contemporary American or British fiction and particularly students wishing to work on the fiction of Pat Barker and ideas of war and cultural memory, or on literatures in comparative context.
Expertise Summary
Sharon Monteith is Professor of American Studies. She works in interdisciplinary Southern Studies-- researching the US South in cultural history, film, media and fiction. Her books include Advancing Sisterhood?: Interracial Friendships in Southern Fiction (University of Georgia Press, 2000) which maps a feminist taxonomy of female friendship and of whiteness studies and explores relationships between black and white women as represented in southern literature through a wide range of authors and with particular focus on Ellen Douglas, Kaye Gibbons Carol Dawson, Lane von Herzen. It focuses on white women writers who grappled with interracial relationships in literature and popular culture prior to the interest in and controversy over Kathryn Stockett's The Help. In her book American Culture in the 1960s (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), Monteith argues that it is impossible to understand the Sixties without recourse to the southern freedom struggle. She also published (with Paul Grainge and Mark Jancovich) Film Histories (EUP/Toronto, 2006). She was awarded a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship to work on Race and Gender in the Mississippi Delta in 2001-2 and most recently co-edited the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Media with Allison Graham.
Together with Prof. Nahem Yousaf (Nottingham Trent University), she edits the Manchester University Press series of monographs Contemporary American and Canadian Writers.
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogue/aseries.asp?id=56
Please email proposals for new books in the series to both editors.
Monteith publishes extensively on contemporary British fiction and culture. She was the first person to write a book about award-winning novelist Pat Barker whose writing she has followed since 1982. She has interviewed Pat Barker on a number of occasions including publicly at the Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival and has spoken about her work on BBC radio and presented on Barker in the US, Scandinavia and Britain. She published Pat Barker (2002) and is writing a second edition. She co-edited Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker (2005) and Contemporary British and Irish Fiction: An Introduction Through Interview (2005).
Monteith has supervised some 20 PhD students to completion on a variety of topics including Southern literature, the civil rights movement, political cinema, the American 1960s, US intellectual and cultural history, contemporary British fiction, figures such as Frank Sinatra and Muhammad Ali, writers including William Faulkner and Pat Barker, and issues such as gender, race and, region . With Helen Foster she published "Writing a Research Proposal, Securing an Offer and Applying for Funding" The Research Student's Companion, eds. Ged Hall and Jo Longman (London: Sage, 2008)
Prof. Monteith welcomes applications from students who wish to follow M.Res or PhD study on the US South and ideas of region, culture and identity, especially in a transnational or global framework; on issues of race and representation in the twentieth- and twenty-first century United States; on southern literature, the Civil Rights Movement, particularly the Movement or the 1960s as represented in film, fiction and in cultural memory; and on the American 1960s in intellectual history. She is interested in the decade's relationship to different cultural forms. She would welcome applications from students of contemporary American or British fiction and particularly students wishing to work on the fiction of Pat Barker and ideas of war and cultural memory, or on literatures in comparative context.
Monteith co-edited Gender and the Civil Rights Movement with Peter Ling (Garland, 1999/ Rutgers, 2004) and South To a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture, with Suzanne Jones (LSU, 2002) and has contributed to a number of collections on Southern culture including Media, Culture and the Modern African Freedom Struggle (2002), Emmett Till in Historical and Literary Imagination (2008), Poverty and Progress in the US South (2007), the Blackwell Companion to Southern Culture (2007). Her essay about the ways in which exploitation movies of the 1960s dramatize Freedom Summer was published in Deborah Barker and Kathryn McKee's American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary (University of Georgia Press, 2011). With Allison Graham she edited the Media and Film volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (2011). She is currently editing the Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South.
Research Summary
Sharon Monteith is Professor of American Studies. She researches the US South in cultural history, film, media and contemporary fiction. Her books include Advancing Sisterhood: Interracial… read more
Selected Publications
MONTEITH SHARON, 2008. American Culture in the 1960s Edinburgh University Press.
MONTEITH SHARON, 2011. Exploitation Movies and the Freedom Struggle of the 1960s. In: DEBORAH BARKER AND KATHRYN MCKEE, ed., American Cinema And The Southern Imaginary University of Georgia Press.
MONTEITH, S., 2008. Emmett Till in the melodramatic imagination: William Bradford Huie and Vin Packer in the 1950s. In: METRESS, C. and POLLACK, H., eds., Emmett Till in literary memory and imagination Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 31-52
MONTEITH, S., 2008. Sally Hemings in Visual Culture: A Radical Act of the Imagination? Slavery and Abolition. VOL 29(NUMBER 2), 233-246
Current Research
Sharon Monteith is Professor of American Studies. She researches the US South in cultural history, film, media and contemporary fiction. Her books include Advancing Sisterhood: Interracial Friendships in Southern Fiction (University of Georgia Press, 2000), American Culture in the 1960s (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), which argues that it is impossible to understand the Sixties without recourse to the southern freedom struggle, and (with Paul Grainge and Mark Jancovich) Film Histories (EUP/Toronto, 2006). She has been working on a long-term research project on the Civil Rights South in the Melodramatic Imagination since she was awarded a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship to work on Race and Gender in the Mississippi Delta in 2001-2. This includes a series of articles and a collective biography of SNCC focusing on memoirs, fiction and film about the Student Non-Violent Cordinating Committee. Monteith has also co-edited Gender and the Civil Rights Movement with Peter Ling (Garland, 1999/ Rutgers, 2004) and South To a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture, with Suzanne Jones (LSU, 2002) and has contributed to a number of collections on Southern culture including Media, Culture and the Modern African Freedom Struggle (2002), Emmett Till in Historical and Literary Imagination (2008), Poverty and Progress in the US South (2007) and the Blackwell Companion to Southern Culture (2007). Her essay about the ways in which exploitation movies of the 1960s dramatize Freedom Summer is published in Deborah Barker and Kathryn McKee's American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary (2011). With Allison Graham she recently edited the Media and Film volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (forthcoming 2011). She is currently editing the Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South.
Monteith publishes on contemporary British fiction. She was the first person to write a book a book about Pat Barker and is currently working on a literary and intellectual biography of the award-winning writer whose writing she has followed since 1982. She has interviewed Pat Barker on a number of occasions including at the Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival. She published Pat Barker (2002), following it with a co-edited collection Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker (2005) and Contemporary British and Irish Fiction: An Introduction Through Interview (2005) which she wrote with Jenny Newman and Pat Wheeler. More recently she delivered the plenary at the first UK conference devoted solely to Pat Barker's work that was organised by Pat Wheeler and she is contributing the Afterword to Wheeler's edited collection Re-Reading Pat Barker (forthcoming with Cambridge Scholars Press).
Past Research
Sharon Monteith researches and teaches Southern Studies (literature, film, media and cultural studies) and contemporary American Studies in a variety of contexts including US race relations and civil rights, visual culture and cultural memory, new social movements, intellectual history, and the 1960s. She is the Associate Dean of the Gradaute School with responsibility for the Arts Faculty and has supervised some 17 PhD students to completion on a variety of topics including Southern literature, political cinema, figures such as Frank Sinatra and Muhammad Ali,and issues such as gender and race, region and enviromentalism . With Helen Foster she published "Writing a Research Proposal, Securing an Offer and Applying for Funding" The Research Student's Companion, eds. Ged Hall and Jo Longman (London: Sage, 2008)
Together with Prof. Nahem Yousaf (Nottingham Trent University), she edits the Manchester University Press series of monographs Contemporary American and Canadian Writers. Please email proposals for new books in the series to both editors.
Prof. Monteith welcomes applications from students who wish to follow M.Res or PhD study on the US South and ideas of region, culture and identity, especially in a transnational or global framework; on issues of race and representation in the twentieth- and twenty-first century United States; on southern literature, the Civil Rights Movement, particularly the Movement or the 1960s as represented in film, fiction and in cultural memory; and on the American 1960s in intellectual history. She is interested in the decade's relationship to different cultural forms. She also writes on contemporary fiction in a number of contexts related to class and memory. For example, she has published a book of interviews with contemporary British and Irish writers as well as two books on the Prize-winning British writer Pat Barker. She would welcome applications from students of contemporary American or British fiction and of literatures in comparative context