Dr Katie McGettigan

BIOGRAPHY

Dr Katie McGettigan is Lecturer in American Literature. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century American and transatlantic literature and print culture. Her first book, Herman Melville: Modernity and the Material Text is forthcoming from the University Press of New England. In 2014, she was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship for a project exploring the publication of American Literature in Britain, 1830-1860. Her work has appeared in Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literature and Cultural Relations and the Journal of Culture, Society and Masculinities.