Becky Avila

b.avila@uea.ac.uk
Research project: The role of education in the racial development and racial awareness of young children. (More specifically my project will examine how the primary school curricula (both hidden and formal) prepare young children to live in an increasingly multicultural United States.)
Other research interests: History of race and racism in the United States; history and development of the American educational system; multicultural education; children and race

Matthew Bentley

M.Bentley@uea.ac.uk | eastanglia.academia.edu/MatthewBentley
Research project: Manhood at the Carlisle Indian School, 1879-1918
Other research interests: History of masculinity in America; Native-American history; history of sport; and the American West

Stephen Boddington

S.Boddington@uea.ac.uk | eastanglia.academia.edu/StephenBoddington
Research project: Why the superhero genre became the dominate form within the American comics Industry
Other research interests: American popular culture; history of comic books; genre theory; meta narratives within mass-produced culture; print culture; the history of the book; pulp novels; American film and radio serials of the 1930s and 40s; the history of the superhero genre.

Nick Cleaver

nicholas.cleaver@uea.ac.uk | eastanglia.academia.edu/NickCleaver
Research project: The foreign policy of the Second Grover Cleveland administration
Other research interests: US foreign policy; the American Civil War; the Gilded Age

Edward Clough

e.clough@uea.ac.uk | eastanglia.academia.edu/EdwardClough
Research project: Faulkner/Structure, or How the South was Built - Fictional architecture and objects in the novels of William Faulkner
Other research interests: American literature; visual culture; material culture; the American South; representations of violence; architecture; literary theory.

Francisco Costa

f.costa@uea.ac.uk | eastanglia.academia.edu/FranciscoCosta
Research project: Representation of Queer Identities on the American Stage from the 1950s to the 1990s
Other research interests: 20th-century American literature and culture, especially in an interdisciplinary approach; gender studies, particularly GLBQT studies; theatre and performance studies; ethnic and racial studies.

Paul Dance

p.dance@uea.ac.uk
Research project: e e cummings' contribution to modernist poetry 
Other research interests: modernist poetry; poetics; linguistics; Freud 

Lidija Davidovska

l.davidovskaivanovska@uea.ac.uk | eastanglia.academia.edu/LidijaDavidovska
Research project: American mainstream poetry after the late '50s to late '90s (Robert Lowell, James Wright, Richard Hugo, Rita Dove, Philip Levine)
Other research interests: Literary theory (stylistics); discourse analysis; American culture (second part of the 20th century); American pragmatism; phenomenology; existentialism.

Jonathan Ward

jonathan.ward@uea.ac.uk | eastanglia.academia.edu/JonathanWard
Research project: The Representation of the Black Male Body within 20th-Century American Popular Culture
Other research interests: The body; gender and sexuality; race and ethnicity; film; photography; cultural studies.