Dr Sue Currell, the chair of the British Association for American Studies, at the memorial for abolitionist Frederick Douglass in Fells Point, Baltimore.
Sussex academic elected chair of British Association for American Studies. A Sussex academic has been elected as the new chair of the British Association for American Studies. Dr Sue Currell , Reader in American Literature in the School of English, will serve a three-year term in the role, beginning with immediate effect until April 2016. The British Association for American Studies (BAAS), a charitable organisation, advocates for the study of America across disciplinary boundaries in universities, colleges, and schools in the UK. The charity also works closely with such organisations as the Embassy of the United States and the Fulbright Commission to offer awards for publications, travel scholarships as well as graduate teaching assistantships in America. Dr Currell's appointment marks only the fourth occasion that the BAAS has elected a female chair, and the 19th chair since the organisation was founded in 1955. As chair of the BAAS, Dr Currell will act as the figurehead for historians, literary scholars, politics and international studies specialists, and cultural studies scholars whose work focuses on the United States.
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