Professor Mick Gidley, BA, Manchester; MA, Chicago; DPhil, Sussex
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Research Interests
Interests in American literary and cultural history, with emphasis on representations
of race and region; photography; modernism, especially Faulkner; Native American
expression; ideas of landscape; transcultural transmissions. His books on American
Indian themes are The Vanishing Race: Selections from Edward S. Curtis
' The North American Indian (1976; 1987); With One Sky Above Us:
Life on an Indian Reservation at the Turn of the Century (1979; 1985);
Kopet: A Documentary Narrative of Chief Joseph's Last Years (1981;
1983); Edward S. Curtis and The North American Indian, Incorporated
(1998; 2000), and, most recently, Edward
S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field (2003).
His other works include A Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public
Collections (1974), American Photography (1983), and, as editor
or co-editor, Views of American Landscapes (1989; 2007), Locating
the Shakers (1990), Representing Others: White Views of Indigenous
Peoples (1992), Modern American Culture (1993), American Photographs
in Europe (1994), and Modern American Landscapes (1995). Currently,
he is working on a study of E. O. Hoppé's Anglo-American writings and
photographs.
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S Curtis and the North American Indian Incorporated.
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S. Curtis and The North American Indian Project in the Field.
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"Silence, Grandeur: Emil Otto Hoppé's Popular American Landscapes".
Order a copy of Stand, Native
American Special Issue, 8:1 (2008),
edited by Mick Gidley.
Recent Activities
Appointments and Awards:
• Awarded Arthur Miller Essay Prize ( 2007) for an essay on the photographer
Richard Avedon.
• Became Emeritus Professor of American Literature & Culture on retirement
in 2006.
• In 2005 served as William Robertson Coe Distinguished Visiting Professor
of American Studies at the University of Wyoming.
• Awarded a British Academy grant for research travel in the US, 2004.
• Arts & Humanities Research Board (AHRB) Study Leave for 2001 calendar
year.
• Leverhulme Grant for research travel for study of E.O. Hoppé,
2001-2002.
Some Plenary Lectures:
• Edward S. Curtis Symposium, Getty Center, Los Angeles, June 2008
• US Survey
Photography, Paris 3 University, September 2007.
• Symposium on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, University of London,
February 2007.
• First Symposium, Native Studies Research Network, London, September
2006.
• American West Symposium for Alfred Bush, Princeton University, April
2006.
• Picturing Atrocity, Graduate Center of CUNY, New York, December 2005.
• American Realities, Swiss Association for North American Studies, Lausanne,
November 2002.
• Photography and the American Dream, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, September
2001.
• Curtis symposia, Claremont, CA; Paris; Lyons; and Lausanne, 2000-2001.
Other Papers:
• Native American Camera Consciousness, Terra Foundation, Giverny, France,
July 2007
• The Photographic Representation of Indians, Universities of Colorado,
Wyoming, Warwick, East Anglia, Leeds, etc, 2005-2007
• Photographs in US History, US Council for the Teaching of History, Montana
State University, June 2005.
• Marcus Cunliffe Writes America, British Association for American Studies,
April 2005.
• Richard Avedon’s In the American West, Universities of
Basel, Venice, Lancaster, Nottingham, Swansea, Sussex, etc, 2000-2003.
National and International Professional Activities:
• Guest edited a special Native American issue of STAND, “Engaging
with Tradition”, Vol.8, Number 1 (2008), which features work by leading
contemporary figures (for an order form, click here).
• Editorial Boards, Comparative American Studies, 2002--; American
Quarterly, 2000-2004; Journal of American Studies, 1998-2006;
etc
• Founder member and Executive Committee member, Native Studies Research
Network, 2005--
• Member, AHRC Peer Review College, 2004--
• Executive Committee, International American Studies Association, 2001-03.
• Research Assessment Exercise Panel for American Studies, 1999-2001.
• UK (elected) Representative, Board of European Association for American
Studies, 1997-2002.
Symposia Organization
• Literature & Photography, School of English, University of Leeds, 10 November
2007.
• (with Jay Prosser), Reading
Photographs in Crisis, Leeds Humanities Research Institute, 14 December
2007.
Teaching:
Professor Gidley retired from teaching in 2006.
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