Paul Giles (academic)

rdf:langString Paul Giles (academic)

rdf:langString Paul Giles

rdf:langString Paul Giles

rdf:langString London, England

rdf:langString Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University

rdf:langString Fellow, Australian Academy for the Humanities

rdf:langString B.A.

rdf:langString M.A.

rdf:langString D. Phil in English

rdf:langString English

rdf:langString Academic, author and researcher

rdf:langString Paul Giles is an English-born academic, author and researcher. He is a Professor of English in the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Australian Catholic University. Giles’ research interests surround the theory and practice of transnationalism and the American literature and culture. Some of his books include Transnationalism in Practice: Essays on American Studies, Literature and Religion (2010); Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730–1860 (2001); Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature (2006); American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics (1992); Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary (2002); The Global Remapping of American Literature (2011); and Hart Crane: The Contexts of The Bridge (1986). More recently, he has extended this transnational method to Australian literature, in Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture (2019) and The Planetary Clock: Antipodean Time and Spherical Postmodern Fictions (2021). Giles is a Fellow of the Australian Academy for the Humanities and has been a Professorial Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford where he continues as a Supernumerary Fellow. He is a series Editor for Anthem Studies in Global English Literatures and has been a co-editor of Australasian Journal of American Studies and was an Editor of American literature, Oxford Handbooks Online. He is a member of the advisory board for the Institute of World Literature.