Hamilton Carroll

Professor Hamilton Carroll is a faculty member at the School of English under the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures at the University of Leeds. He joined the university in 2006 and is a leading scholar in American Studies, with expertise in 20th-21st century US literature, film studies, gender studies, and globalization.

• PhD in English Literature and American Studies (2003), MA (English Literature), and BA from the University of Indiana--Bloomington.

His research interrogates the interplay between macro-level forces like globalization, neoliberalism, and transnationalism and micro-level cultural formations of national identity, citizenship, and subjectivity. He is completing a monograph on 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis in US fiction, and starting a project on white working-class identity under Trump.

Carroll’s book Affirmative Reaction: New Formation of White Masculinity analyzes white masculine privilege as a mobile, mutable identity. He has held postdoctoral positions at Georgia Institute of Technology and University College Dublin.