Paul Giles

Experience

• 2022–present
  Professor of English, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
• 2010–2022
  Challis Professor of English, University of Sydney
• 2002–2009
  Professor of American Literature, University of Oxford
• 1999–2002
  University Lecturer in American Literature, University of Cambridge

Education

• 1985 
  University of Oxford, D Phil.
• 1979 
  University of Oxford, B.A. English, First Class

Publications

• 2021
  The Planetary Clock: Antipodean Time and Spherical Postmodern Fictions, Oxford University Press
• 2019
  Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture, Oxford University Press
• 2013
  Antipodean America: Australasia and the Constitution of U.S. Literature, Oxford University Press
• 2011
  The Global Remapping of American Literature, Princeton University Press
• 2010
  Transnationalism in Practice: Essays on American Studies, Literature and Religion, Edinburgh University Press
• 2006
  Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature, Oxford University Press
• 2002
  Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary, Duke University Press
• 2001
  Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730-1860, University of Pennsylvania Press
• 1992
  American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics, Cambridge University Press
• 1986
  Hart Crane: The Contexts of The Bridge, Cambridge University Press

Grants and Contracts

• 2015
  Chronometrics: Cultural Representations of Antipodean Time

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

• 2011
  Antipodean America: Australasia, Colonialism and the Constitution of U.S. Literature

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

Professional Memberships

• American Studies Association
• Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association
• British Association of American Studies
• International Association of University Professors of English
• Modern Language Association of America

Research Areas

• Literary Studies (2005)

Honours

Director, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, 2003-2008; President, International American Studies Association, 2005-2007; President, International Association of University Professors of English, 2019-23; Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities.