Dr Sarah MacLachlan

Academic and professional qualifications

My D.Phil. American Studies was awarded in 1999 by the University of Sussex (Border Fictions: Questions of Identity and Contemporary US Cultures). I studied for my MA in the English Department at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. My BA American Studies/English was awarded by the University of Birmingham.

Previous employment

I have been teaching in the English Department at Manchester Metropolitan University since 1999.

Other academic service (administration and management)

Associate BA Programme Leader (English and American Literature)

MA English Studies: Contemporary Literature and Film Programme Director

US Exchange Co-Ordinator

Why study ?

Undergraduate courses

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American literature and cultural theory; contemporary American writing; border fictions; the American South.

Postgraduate teaching

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American literature and cultural theory; contemporary American writing; border fictions; the American South.

Research expertise

Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century American literature and cultural theory, especially race and representations of the US-Mexico border; Chicano/a Studies; Latin America, particularly Cuba and nostalgia, in the US cultural imagination.

Current work in progress

• Books (authored/edited/special issues)

  The Cambridge Introduction to Chicano/a Literature and Culture.

Consultancy and advisory roles

The Year’s Work in English Studies Reviewer: Post-1945 American Literature (2000-2005)

British Association for American Studies Executive Committee, Conference Sub-Committee Chair