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Details for Dr Theo Savvas
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr Theo Savvas |
| Job title | Lecturer |
| Department | Department of English University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | BA(Cantab.), MA(London), MA(Cantab.), PhD(Essex) |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | British Association for American Studies Modern Language Association of America |
| Keywords | American literature Postmodernism multi-ethnic literature transnationalism in literature history and fiction contemporary literature |
| Areas of expertise | My main research area is post-1945 American literature. I am interested in the relationship between history and fiction, and have published a number of articles in this field. My book, 'American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past', was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011. I am currently engaged in two new projects. I am working on a book, tentatively titled, 'The New Coordinates of American Literature: Immigrant Writing and Transnationalism', which is concerned with exploring the shifting nature of American literature caused by the increase in immigrant writing since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. I will discuss immigrant writing in the context of transnational theories of literature, but also suggest new ways that we might conceive American literature in the twenty-first century. I am also working on an edited volume, provisionally called 'Heirs to the Masters', which will bring together essays on contemporary American writers with links to postmodernism. |