Paul Giles has taught at the Universities of Nottingham and Cambridge as well as Portland State University in Oregon. From 2002 to 2009, he was Professor of American Literature and Director of the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, while also serving (between 2005 and 2007) as President of the International American Studies Association. In 2010, he moved to the University of Sydney, Australia, as Challis Chair of English Literature.

• Preface; Copyright Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Evolution of Critical Transnationalism; 1. Reconstructing American Studies: Transnational Paradoxes, Comparative Perspectives (1994); 2. Transnationalism in Practice (2001); 3. Post-liberalism: George W. Bush and the Internationalization of American Studies (2004); 4. E Pluribus Multitudinum: The New World of Journal Publishing in American Studies (2005); 5. Historicizing the Transnational: Robert Coover, Kathy Acker, and the Rewriting of British Cultural History, 1970-1997 (2007); 6. F. O. Matthiessen: Comparative Criticism and the Rhetoric of Violence (2001, revised 2009); 7. Henry James Athwart: Deterritorialization in The Sacred Fount (2003); 8. "The Magnet Attracting": Dreiser's Literary Style (2004); 9. The Literary Culture of Colonial America: Theology and Aesthetics (2005); 10. The Abjection of American Literature: Jamaica Kincaid and the Ghosts of Postcolonialism (2009); 11. Catholic Ideology and American Slave Narratives (1997); 13. The Intertextual Politics of Cultural Catholicism: Tiepolo, Madonna, Scorsese (1997); 13. "Like a Black Bell": Henry Carlile and the Negative Theology of Place (2007); 14. The Springsteen Affect: Religion in American Studies (2009); Index.

Paul Giles has taught at the Universities of Nottingham and Cambridge as well as Portland State University in Oregon. From 2002 to 2009, he was Professor of American Literature and Director of the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, while also serving (between 2005 and 2007) as President of the International American Studies Association. In 2010, he moved to the University of Sydney, Australia, as Challis Chair of English Literature.

• Preface; Copyright Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Evolution of Critical Transnationalism; 1. Reconstructing American Studies: Transnational Paradoxes, Comparative Perspectives (1994); 2. Transnationalism in Practice (2001); 3. Post-liberalism: George W. Bush and the Internationalization of American Studies (2004); 4. E Pluribus Multitudinum: The New World of Journal Publishing in American Studies (2005); 5. Historicizing the Transnational: Robert Coover, Kathy Acker, and the Rewriting of British Cultural History, 1970-1997 (2007); 6. F. O. Matthiessen: Comparative Criticism and the Rhetoric of Violence (2001, revised 2009); 7. Henry James Athwart: Deterritorialization in The Sacred Fount (2003); 8. "The Magnet Attracting": Dreiser's Literary Style (2004); 9. The Literary Culture of Colonial America: Theology and Aesthetics (2005); 10. The Abjection of American Literature: Jamaica Kincaid and the Ghosts of Postcolonialism (2009); 11. Catholic Ideology and American Slave Narratives (1997); 13. The Intertextual Politics of Cultural Catholicism: Tiepolo, Madonna, Scorsese (1997); 13. "Like a Black Bell": Henry Carlile and the Negative Theology of Place (2007); 14. The Springsteen Affect: Religion in American Studies (2009); Index.

Paul Giles has taught at the Universities of Nottingham and Cambridge as well as Portland State University in Oregon. From 2002 to 2009, he was Professor of American Literature and Director of the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, while also serving (between 2005 and 2007) as President of the International American Studies Association. In 2010, he moved to the University of Sydney, Australia, as Challis Chair of English Literature.

• Preface; Copyright Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Evolution of Critical Transnationalism; 1. Reconstructing American Studies: Transnational Paradoxes, Comparative Perspectives (1994); 2. Transnationalism in Practice (2001); 3. Post-liberalism: George W. Bush and the Internationalization of American Studies (2004); 4. E Pluribus Multitudinum: The New World of Journal Publishing in American Studies (2005); 5. Historicizing the Transnational: Robert Coover, Kathy Acker, and the Rewriting of British Cultural History, 1970-1997 (2007); 6. F. O. Matthiessen: Comparative Criticism and the Rhetoric of Violence (2001, revised 2009); 7. Henry James Athwart: Deterritorialization in The Sacred Fount (2003); 8. "The Magnet Attracting": Dreiser's Literary Style (2004); 9. The Literary Culture of Colonial America: Theology and Aesthetics (2005); 10. The Abjection of American Literature: Jamaica Kincaid and the Ghosts of Postcolonialism (2009); 11. Catholic Ideology and American Slave Narratives (1997); 13. The Intertextual Politics of Cultural Catholicism: Tiepolo, Madonna, Scorsese (1997); 13. "Like a Black Bell": Henry Carlile and the Negative Theology of Place (2007); 14. The Springsteen Affect: Religion in American Studies (2009); Index.