Nottingham Contemporary

David Roediger is a Foundation distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at The University of Kansas. Roediger’s research interests are strongly focussed on race and class in U.S. history and he has had numerous books published on the subject including, The Wages of Whiteness and Working toward Whiteness (1991) – often cited as a groundbreaking study into the formation of white working-class racism in the United States. His most recent publications include The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History) (2012) written in collaboration with historian Elizabeth D.Esch, and Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All, How Race Survived U.S. History (2014). He is currently working on a project about middle class history from 1830 to present day and is the president of the American Studies Association.

Sharon Monteith is a professor of American studies at the University of Nottingham and the Director of the AHRC-funded Midland3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. Her research works across history, literature, media, film, and cultural studies with particular focus on the American South and the Civil rights movement. Her books include Advancing Sisterhood?: Interracial Friendships in Southern Fiction (University of Georgia Press, 2000) which explores relationships between black and white women across a selection of white female American literature, and American culture in the 1960s (Edinburgh University Press, 2008) which charts the changing face of major forms of American culture throughout the Twentieth-Century. She has also edited the book The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South (2013) and The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Media (2011) with Allison Graham. Monteith is currently working on completing SNCC’s Stories: Narrative Culture and the Southern Freedom Struggle of the 1960s for the University of Georgia Press. She was awarded the Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship at the University of Memphis in 2001.