Mick Gidley
Mick Gidley is Emeritus Professor of American Literature & Culture at the University of Leeds. He worked for many years at the University of Exeter, where he was Director of the Centre for American & Commonwealth Arts and Reader in American Studies. He has frequently taught and lectured in the United States; in 2005, for example, he was the William Robertson Coe Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of Wyoming. In 2006 he won the Arthur Miller Essay Prize, in 2009 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the British Association for American Studies (BAAS), and over the years he has been awarded grants and fellowships by such bodies as the American Council of learned Societies, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and the Leverhulme Trust. For BAAS he chaired the Education Committee for an extended period and was later elected as the UK board member of the European Association for American Studies. He has served on the editorial boards of various journals, such as American Quarterly, Journal of American Studies, European Review of Native American Studies, and Comparative American Studies.
His recent books include Photography and the USA (Reaktion), Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated (Cambridge UP), Edward S. Curtis and the North American India Project in the Field (U of Nebraska P), and, as editor, Writing with Light: Words and Photographs in American Texts (Peter Lang). Picturing Atrocity (Reaktion), of which he is a co-editor, will be published in late 2011.
Mick Gidley's earlier books are With One Sky above Us, Kopet, and (as editor or co-editor) The Vanishing Race, Views of American Landscapes, Locating the Shakers, Representing Others, Modern American Culture: An Introduction, American Photographs in Europe, and Modern American Landscapes. Other publications include many literary essays on William Faulkner, Scott Fitzgerald and other American Moderns, such pamphlets as Audio-Visual Materials for American Studies and A Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections, and exhibition catalogue essays for shows at such galleries as the Barbican, London, and the Musée d'Art Américain, Giverny. Of late, after a long intermission, he has published poems in Stand and other little magazines.
