我们有三个不同的主题研究领域，涵盖了当今美国研究中的关键问题。我们的研究主题跨越学科界限，并结合了我们学术人员的专业知识。种族，性别和公民自由，美国环境，场所和空间，美国比较研究，前卫和反文化。
Our areas of research strength cover the critical issues in American studies today through the lenses of American histories, American literature and American cultural studies. Our research themes cross disciplinary boundaries and combine the expertise of our academic staff. We have lively concentrations in the areas of race, gender and civil liberties, American environments, places and spaces, interdisciplinary Area Studies, comparative American studies, American avant-gardes and popular culture.<br>RESEARCH - Your teaching will be research led, and you will become an active member of our research community. You will have the opportunity to explore your interests in depth under supervision during your dissertation. <br>Themes our students have explored as research scholars include: <br>African-American and Native American history and literature, Cold War and American international relations, Gender, race, and sexuality, Great American historical figures, American religion, Youth cultures and subcultures, American superheroes, feminism and neo-liberalism, Native American literature and land, The politics of environmental pollution, Transnational American culture, and American writing, from Mark Twain to Leslie Marmon Silko, from Gertrude Stein to Toni Morrison. Our historians specialise in nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century history, and our literary supervision takes in nineteenth century, modern, postmodern, contemporary and newly emerging poetry, prose and mixed media writing.<br>STUDENT RESEARCH - We welcome applications for PhDs, MPhil degrees and Masters' by Research. You'll be supervised by a team of at least two faculty members. If you are interested in applying for a research degree, please feel free to contact academic staff directly. Our current students are working on groundbreaking topics including the constitutionalism of the death penalty, Native American writing, activism and environmental justice, the poetics of the mid-century domestic space, black filmmaking in the age of Obama, the rise of digital anti-feminism, representations of mixed-race women in early 20th-century America, the work of Louisa May Alcott and Christina Rossetti, and the poetry of Charles Bernstein, AR Ammons, and Susan Howe.<br>RESEARCH EVENTS AND RESEARCH SKILLS TRAINING - As a postgraduate student you will be part of a vibrant research community that brings faculty and students together regularly. You'll participate in our research seminars, where visiting speakers and American studies staff and students come together to present and discuss papers based on their research. You'll also develop your research and professional skills through sessions organised by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities Graduate School.