We are happy to announce that Dr John Beck will be delivering the keynote lecture at the conference.
Dr John Beck is a senior lecturer in the department of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University. His work explores American literature and visual culture, and he is currently working on a number of projects relating to military bunkers, art schools, modern ruins, documentary film, land art, and landscape photography. His many publications include Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature (2009) with the University of Nebraska Press, and Writing the radical centre : William Carlos Williams, John Dewey, and American cultural politics (2001) published by the University of New York Press.
Richard Moss and Amy Jordan,
Organisers.
