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Dr Andrew Dix
Tel: +44 01509 222892
Role: Lecturer in American Studies
Email: A.Dix@lboro.ac.uk
Room KK.0.06, Music Centre, East Park
Publications
My research interests extend across the range of American Studies, and include African American and Native American cultures, nineteenth-, twentieth- and twenty-first-century US fiction, and film (particularly adaptation, star studies, and the relationships between cinema and globalisation). I have recently co-authored, with my Loughborough colleagues Brian Jarvis and Paul Jenner, The Contemporary American Novel in Context (due out from Continuum in 2011). Previous publications include a wide-ranging, evaluative survey of critical and theoretical approaches to cinema, Beginning Film Studies (Manchester University Press, 2008) and a co-edited collection of essays, Figures of Heresy: Radical Theology in English and American Writing, 1800-2000 (Sussex Academic Press, 2006; co-edited with Jonathan Taylor); together with articles and book chapters on subjects including Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, contemporary Native American fiction, and the imagination of globalisation in films by the British director Michael Winterbottom. I am currently completing an article on Johnny Depp as transnational film star, and beginning research on a new, book-length project – a study of the representation of white, African American and Native American interactions in US literature from the eighteenth century to the present.
I currently convene five undergraduate modules: Part A's 'Introduction to American Literature’ and ‘Introduction to Film Studies', Part B's 'African American Culture' and ‘American Adaptations’, and Part C’s ‘The American West’. With Brian Jarvis, I also co-teach Part B's 'Nineteenth-Century American Writing'. At postgraduate level I convene two MA modules – 'On the Road: American Travel and its Meanings' and 'The American Novel Now'.
I am currently supervising PhD theses on models of stardom in Hollywood animation and on the politics of pastoral in writings by and about the American South from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries. I would welcome inquiries by postgraduate students interested in research in such areas as African American culture, Native American culture, the American West, nineteenth-, twentieth- and twenty-first-century American fiction, American film, American travel narratives, and travel writing more broadly.