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Dr Gianluca Sergi

Description
Film sound, filmmaking practices, Hollywood politics, scriptwriting, Hollywood cinema, Italian cinema.

Dr Graham Thompson

Description
19th-century American literature, especially Herman Melville, George Lippard and William Dean Howells; post-1945 American literature, especially Douglas Coupland; business and work in American culture; American culture in the 1980s; American sexuality.

Dr Magnus Brechtken

Description
19th and 20th century Germany and international history and politics. Germany and Europe. Anglo-German relations. German-American relations. Third Reich and history of anti-Semitism. Historiography on Germany. Media, parties and politics. Political memoir.

Dr Mark Gallagher

Description
Contemporary American and international cinema. American independent film. Documentary film and television. Global television. Gender and masculinity in media. Action film. East Asian cinema.

Dr Nick Thomas

Description
Post-1945 European and American social change, in particular 1960s protest movements. Women and society. The Sexual Revolution. Reactions to and impact of Vietnam War.

Dr Paul Grainge

Description
American film and the New Hollywood. Memory and nostalgia. Global media. Branding. Cultural Studies. Time Magazine.

Professor Bernard McGuirk

Description
Modern Spanish American, Brazilian, Spanish, Portuguese and French literatures. Critical theory.

Professor Jeffrey Kenner

Description
European Union law — legal and political developments, constitutional matters, employment and social law. EU relations with the US, Russia and other major powers.

Professor Judith Newman

Description
Contemporary American and Postcolonial fiction, especially South African. Women's writing. 19th-century American writing and slavery, especially Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Professor Peter Ling

Description
African American history. American history. Non-violence and social justice. Martin Luther King Jnr and political education in the civil rights movement.

Professor Peter Messent

Description
Mark Twain. Detective fiction. 20th-century American literature. American realism and naturalism. American crime fiction. The modern American novel from 1880 to present. Narrative theory. Hemingway.

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