We are delighted to announce that Dr Grace Halden, recent graduate of the English and Humanities MPhil/PhD programme, has signed her first book deal to write Three Mile Island: The Meltdown Crisis and Nuclear Power in American Culture.

 

The book will be published by Routledge.

 

Three Mile Island: The Meltdown Crisis and Nuclear Power in American Culture builds on the research Grace conducted when working on the first two chapters of her PhD thesis at Birkbeck entitled ‘If This a Man’ Technological Development and Human Disappearance in US Sf since 1945.

 

Three Mile Island: The Meltdown Crisis and Nuclear Power in American Culture engages with the Three Mile Island nuclear incident of 1979 alongside the wider contextual framework of the nuclear debate in America during the twentieth century. Not only was the 1979 Three Mile Island event important for the history of nuclear development, it also exposed fundamental issues regarding how information is disseminated to the public.

 

Through exploring both sociohistorical and literary representations of Three Mile Island, Grace will examine how nuclear technology was both idealized and challenged before, during, and after this event – from the 1945 atomic strike on Japan to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

 

With special thanks to Professor Roger Luckhurst.

 

For more information on Grace’s work please visit: http://gracehalden.wix.com/gracehalden

 

 

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