About the Author

Douglas Tallack

During the writing this essay, Douglas Tallack moved to a post as Professor of American Studies, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Arts, Humanities and Law at the University of Leicester, UK.  He was formerly Professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Professor Tallack has written and edited a number of books: New York Sights: Visualizing Old and New New York (2005); City Sites: Multi-Media Essays on New York and Chicago (co-editor) (2000); Critical Theory: A Reader (editor) (1995); The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story (1993); Twentieth-Century America (1991); and Literary Theory at Work (editor) (1987). He has twice won the Arthur Miller Prize for the best American Studies article of the year, and was director of the 3Cities project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. Professor Tallack holds honorary guest professorships at Tsinghua and Shanghai International Studies University, and was the Grolier Club (New York) Fellow for 2008. He has been a member of the UK Government's Marshall Commission and the Advisory Board of the Observatory for Borderless Education.

Email: prof.d.tallack@le.ac.uk