Research degrees

PGT-courses

We offer a range of both taught masters and PhD research courses.

Research opportunities

Masters

Research your passion supplemented by teaching from our experts. A masters is ideal preparation for a PhD or shorter research topics:

PhD options

Produce a significant piece of research with support and guidance from our academic staff.

Our research specialities

African American Literature, History and Culture
American Art and Visual Culture
American Intellectual History
American Labour History
American Music and Popular Culture
American Political History
American Print Culture and Book History
Asian American Literature and Culture
Canadian Literature and Culture
Civil Rights and Social Justice
Contemporary American Fiction
Crime, Prisons and Criminal Justice
Feminist Theory
Gender and Queer Studies
Indigenous Culture
Latino/a Culture
Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
North American Border Studies
US Foreign Policy

More about our research

See our postgraduate research prospectus

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Department of American and Canadian Studies

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Nottingham, NG7 2RD

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