Dr Rowland Hughes
MA (Oxon), MA, PhD
Job title: Principal Lecturer in English Literature
Email Address: R.W.Hughes@herts.ac.uk
Telephone Number: 01707 285 632
Memberships and Appointments: • British Association of American Studies
Rowland Hughes has been at the University of Hertfordshire since 2003. He gained his undergraduate degree in English Language and Literature from Magdalen College, Oxford, before going on to gain an MA in Anglo-American Literary Relations and a PhD from University College, London. His teaching responsibilities include the core Level 2 module on literature from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, but lie mainly in American literature. He teaches American Literature to 1900 at Level 2; Level Three options on transatlantic literary exchange and Native American literature; and an MA module on Western American writing.
Rowland's research interests lie principally in print culture of the early US; writing about the American West; transatlantic cultural exchange; and literature and the environment. His doctoral thesis explored representations of the frontier and Native Americans in early American literature. Current projects focus on representions of the body in early America; fictions of familicide in the early US; and the New Orleans pirate Jean Lafitte. Applications are welcome from research students working on American literature, particularly colonial, early national, and nineteenth-century American literature; the American West (and American regionalism more broadly); travel writing; environmentalism and literature; popular fiction.