Faculty Member, English Literature
Lecturer in English Literature
Thesis Title: Purchasing Power: Gender and Consumerism in Twentieth-Century American Literature
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Dr Duco van Oostrum
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About
I completed my PhD at the University of Sheffield where I also held a part-time Teaching Fellowship for three years. I then spent two years lecturing in English and American Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, before coming to York St John in September 2011.
My thesis examined the work of Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Gertrude Stein, Fannie Hurst and Zora Neale Hurston in terms of literature, consumerism and the articulation of female identity. I'm currently working on a monograph based on my thesis, and on a new research project based on contemporary literary and cultural responses to the American Civil War.
I recently participated in the Fulbright Commission's American Studies Summer Institure which involved spending four wonderful weeks at New York Unviersity. More information can be found here:
http://www.fulbright.co.uk/fulbright-awards/for-uk-citizens/special-pr
