Dr Sarah MacLachlan
Senior Lecturer & MA English Studies Programme Leader
My profile
Biography
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.
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
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
Teaching
Postgraduate teaching
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American literature and cultural theory; contemporary American writing; border fictions; the American South.
Research outputs
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.