Sarah Trott

I am a Senior Lecturer in American Studies and History at York St. John University. My interdisciplinary research is grounded in field of American Studies and lies at the intersection of culture, history, politics, and social memory. My work focuses on the impact of war in 19th and 20th century America, with a secondary concentration on subversive culture and trauma. My monograph, published with the University Press of Mississippi (2016), challenged the American canon, arguing a case for the work of crime fiction writer Raymond Chandler to be located and read alongside the work of the Lost Generation. By taking into account the impact of wartime post-traumatic stress disorder upon American crime fiction I introduced the original concept of ‘War Noir’ to the study of American literature.