Gillian Mitchell
Dr Gillian Mitchell

Gillian A. M. Mitchell

M.A. (Hons), M.Phil. (Glasgow), PhD (Toronto), LLCM. T.H.E. (Bangor) - Lecturer

 
Contact Details

E-mail - gamm2@st-and.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 462896
Fax - +44 (0)1334 462914


 

Teaching and Research Interests

Post-1945 Popular Music in the United States, Britain and Canada

Main Publications

  • ‘From ‘Rock’ to ‘Beat’: Towards a Reappraisal of Popular Music in Britain, 1958-1962’, Popular Music and Society (Published online via iFirst, August 7th 2012 – hard copy forthcoming July 2013)
  • ‘A Very ‘British’ Introduction to Rock ‘n’ Roll: Tommy Steele and the Advent of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Britain, 1956-1960’, Contemporary British History 25/2 (2011): 205-225.
  • ‘Joan Baez’, Online Literary Encyclopaedia (2008).
  • The North American Folk Revival: Nation and Identity in the United States and Canada, 1945-1980 (Ashgate, 2007)
  • ‘Visions of Diversity: Cultural Pluralism and the Folk Music Revival Movement of Canada and the United States, 1958-1965’, Journal of American Studies 40/3 (2006) 593-614.
  • ‘‘A Path to Life’ or ‘A Way of Life’: The Contrasting Approaches of Emerson and Thoreau to the Natural World’, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 6/1 (2000)

Teaching Duties

Participates in the teaching of Modern History and offers the following Honours courses:

 

 

 

Main Publications