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Professor Stephen McVeigh

Professor Stephen McVeigh

Professor
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Telephone number

+44 (0) 1792 602897
Available For Postgraduate Supervision

About

Professor Stephen McVeigh is Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor Education (Quality and Standards). He is the institutional lead for a number of significant education projects across the university. He is project lead for Curriculum Transformation and is driving projects relating to improving retention and progression, implementing a new timetabling policy, reviewing and enhancing key quality assurance processes and structures, and defining the future shape of education related professional service units.

As Professor in in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, he is a cultural historian of 19th and 20th century United States. His areas of research and teaching are diverse within this frame of 19th and 20th century American cultural history, including the history and mythology of the American West, American film, 20th century American literature and American pulp fictions, and American War and Society.

Professor McVeigh is the series editor of War, Culture and Society, a research monograph series published by Bloomsbury. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of War and Culture Studies.

Areas Of Expertise

  • The history of the American West
  • The West in literature and popular culture
  • 20th century American literature
  • American film
  • American popular culture
  • American mythology
  • American war and society
  • The Spanish Civil War

Career Highlights

Teaching Interests

• Frontier mythology in 20th century American history and culture
• American War and Society
• 19th and 20th century American cultural history,
• American film
• 20th century American literature and American pulp fictions
• The Spanish Civil War
• American masculinities
• Representations of war in art, literature and film

Research