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PROFESSOR CYNTHIA HAMILTON
I received a AB cum laude from Wheaton College, Massachusetts and a D.Phil. in American Studies from the University of Sussex. I have served on the Executive Committee of the British Association for American Studies and on the Board of the Collegium for African American Research. I am currently the Secretary of CAAR and a General Editor of the FORECAAST Series, sponsored by CAAR and published by Liverpool University Press. I have been a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, and a Peterson Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. I was recipient of the 1997 Arthur Miller Prize for an essay on Toni Morrison. My work examines the dynamics of popular literary genres including slave narrative, the temperance tale, the captivity narrative, the western, detective fiction, the gothic, and sentimental reform literature.
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DR LINDA MCLOUGHLIN
I have been Curriculum Co-ordinator for English Language since 2002 when I developed and led through validation a new English Language Pathway. I teach the first year Foundations in English Language; second level Language, Ideology and Power and third level Sociolinguistics and Research Methods. I also teach on the MA English Language modules Research Methods and Language and Power. My research interests straddle critical discourse analysis and sociolinguistics and is primarily focused on language, gender and sexuality. My PhD (Liverpool University) is on the social construction of female sexuality in teenage magazines. My book The Language of Magazines aims to help students develop a linguistic framework to uncover the ideological messages permeating magazine texts.
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Dr. JACQUI MILLER
I am Head of Department for Media and Communication and Principal Lecturer in Film History at Liverpool Hope.
Media and Communication at Liverpool Hope has a multi and interdisciplinary focus. All undergraduate students take 'core' media elements including, as well as media theory, journalism, radio, and PR/marketing/branding. In addition, single honours students study film history and theory, as well as practical work in filmmaking, photography, and animation. Media and Communication at Hope is underpinned by the principle of critical and creative practice, fusing academic rigour with the illumination of theory by applied work. In addition to our BA/Pathway in Media and Communication, we have an MA in Film, Media and Society and a Combined Honours Pathway in Film and Visual Culture.
I lead Liverpool Hope's Popular Culture Research Group and convene the annual international conference at Hope, Theorising the Popular. My research interests are film history and theory, as well as crime fiction.
