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Dr Brian Miller
Visiting Lecturer and Tutor in History
Office: G75, 15 Woodland Road : Consulting hours (PDF, 66kB)
Phone: +44 (0)117 928 7620
Email: b.g.miller@bristol.ac.uk
Research interests
Works on Anglo-American cultural relations in literary publishing in the mid-twentieth century; American influences on British literary culture and the ideology of Anglo-Americanism in Britain in the pre-war, wartime and postwar periods.
He has recently completed a doctoral thesis: 'Hamish Hamilton and the Culture of Anglo-Americanism 1931-1972' (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Bristol, 2001).
Presently engaged in further book-history research to determine and identify the dissemination, popularity and marketability of fiction and non-fiction American writers in Britain between the 1920s and 1960s, prior to the advancement of the transatlantic conglomerisation of British publishing media.
Papers
- 'The Transatlantic Cultural Nexus in Publishing Before the Advent of the Transnational Conglomerate'. Annual Conference, British Association for American Studies, Keele University, 9th April, 2001.
- 'Graft Down at City Hall? John Gunther, American Book Journalism, and Perceptions of European Cataclysm in the 1930s' 49th Parallel, Birmingham University, August 2001.
- 'Editing Americans: The practice of the anglicising of American texts by British publishers 1951-1993 - a case study in evolution'. Work-in-Progress Seminar, Bristol University Department of Historical Studies, Spring 2002.
Current teaching
- Outline course seminars: 'USA to 1877' (2nd and 3rd year)
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