Christopher Gair

Chris Gair is a Senior Lecturer in English and American Studies at Glasgow University. He took his first degree at Loughborough University and his MA and PhD at Nottingham University. He has taught at the College of St. Mark and St. John, Plymouth (1993–98), the University of Birmingham (1998–2007) and was Visiting Fellow in English at the University of Chicago in 2001 and in English and American Studies at Yale University in 2009. He has written numerous articles and books, mainly in his chief research areas, late 19th and early 20th century American literary and visual culture, the Beat Generation and the American Counterculture.