Professor Neil Campbell
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Job title: Professor and Senior Research Fellow in American Studies
Email: n.campbell@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 591481
Room: E706, East Tower, Kedleston Road
Recent publications
- The Cultures of the American West (Edinburgh University Press, 2000)
- American Youth Cultures as editor (Edinburgh University Press, 2004)
- Issues in Americanisation and Culture (Edinburgh University Press, 2006) edited with G. McKay and J. Davies
- 'Critical regionalism, Thirdspace and John Brinckerhoff Jackson's Western Cultural Landscapes' in S. Kollin (ed) Postwestern Cultures (University of Nebraska Press), 2006
- The Rhizomatic West: Representing the West in the Global, Media Age (University of Nebraska Press, 2008)
- 'From story to film: Brokeback Mountain's "in-between spaces" in Canadian Review of American Studies (forthcoming 2008)
- 'The American Western' in D. Seed (ed), Blackwells Companion to Modern American Fiction (forthcoming 2009)
- 'Jack Kerouac and Robert Frank: "He Got Eyes", in M. Gidley (ed) Writing with Light (Peter Lang) forthcoming 2009
I am currently beginning research for a new book [the final part of the New West trilogy] Postwesterns - on film and the modern American imagination.
Faculty: Arts, Design and Technology
School: School of Humanities
Subject Area: American Studies
Professor of American Studies, Senior Research Fellow
Teaching responsibilities
American Studies
Research interests
The contemporary American West, American youth cultures, American cultural studies, photography.
I am particularly interested in postgraduate students who wish to research into any aspect of the American West.
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
- British Association of American Studies
- Western Literature Association
