Philip McGowan is Professor of American Literature at Queen’s University Belfast and the President of the European Association for American Studies, with research and teaching interests in twentieth-century American poetry, contemporary American fiction, and film. He also has wider interests in revolutionary America, the American nineteenth century, westerns, and American narratives of addiction and alcohol control. In the field of poetry, his teaching and research focuses on Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, the Middle Generation poets, and Mark Doty.
