The Centre for American Studies dates back to 1973 and over more than forty years we have developed a strong research culture that matches the … Read more

Irene Lopez Sanchez is a PhD student at the Centre for American Studies at the University of Kent. We caught up with Irene to find … Read more

Director of the Centre for American Studies, John Wills, recently gave a talk titled, ‘Play America and Video Games in an Experimental Age‘ about his … Read more

The fourth Americanist Symposium, organised by Jack Dice and Irene Lopez, postgraduate students at The Centre for American Studies at the University of Kent took … Read more

The Board also invites film scholars to write essays about the movies explaining their significance. Dr John Wills, Reader in American History and Culture and Director … Read more

The Age of Revolution project, led by Dr Ben Marsh from the Centre for American Studies and the School of History, has secured £41,500 of … Read more

As part of our celebration of 40 years of Pac-man, we’re delighted to present this video, made for The Micro Museum by Dr John Wills, … Read more

Digital culture Kent, invites you to an online guest talk on Monday 3rd August, 2020 at 3pm, Avatar-Gamer Zombie Hybrids: the Post-Human in Apocalyptic Play. … Read more

The video games industry makes more money than the music and film industries combined but do we really understand video games – their ideas, their … Read more

Congratulations to Dr Will Norman of the Centre for American Studies who has recently received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship grant of £49,710 for his project, … Read more