I have recently completed a manuscript entitled "Scottish
Highlanders in Colonial Georgia: the recruitment, emigraton, and
settlement in Darien, 1735-1748." I teach third and fourth year
Honours students in "Post-WWII American Society and Its
Critics,"i.e., Civil Rights Movement, Women's Movement, and Gay
Liberation. I also teach American History, 1863-1940 and will
introduce a new course next year "Scotland and the Americas,
1620-1865."
Tony Parker
Dr. A.W. Parker
chool of American Studies
University of Dundee
Dundee, DD1 4HN
Scotland UK
Subject: Icebreaker #34: Dr Duco van Oostrum D.Oostrum@Sheffield.ac.uk
I'm currently working as a Lecturer in American Literature at the
University of Sheffield, teaching and doing research especially in
late nineteenth-century and early 20th-century American Literature.
I've flipped flopped back and forth between the Netherlands and the
US (both for my interest in basketball and because of my academic
interests) before finally settling, not quite in between, in the UK.
I'm interested in current projects on American authors and US culture
on the www. I'm now setting up a multi-disciplinary American Studies
course on American Sports and African American Culture (just an
excuse to follow American basketball, you might say), and if anyone
on the list has creative thoughts on the matter, I'd be delighted to
hear about them. My recent book (__Male Authors, Female Subjects__)
is a discussion of the representation of women in texts by male
authors (mostly Henry Adams, Henry James, but also by two Dutch
authors, Multatuli and Frederik van Eeden).
I'm looking forward to an exchange of useful information on US culture
hich might be of help for myself and the American Studies program
here at the University of Sheffield.
cheers,
Duco
Dr Duco van Oostrum
Department of English Literature
Shearwood Mount tel: +44-114-282-6278
hearwood Road fax: +44-114-282-4246
Sheffield, S10 2TD e-mail: D.Oostrum@Sheffield.ac.uk
England