Dr Amy Kenyon

Amy Kenyon is a historian, writer and photographer based in London. Born in Dearborn, Michigan, she spent her childhood in suburban Detroit. In 1972, she moved to France and studied at the American University in Paris and the University of Aix-Marseille. She has subsequently lived, worked and studied in England and Massachusetts. She received a BA in Photography and an MA in History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her PhD in Cultural History was completed at the University of Leeds in the UK. Her book, Dreaming Suburbia, on the cultural history of Detroit, was published in 2004 and her novel, Ford Road, has just been published by the University of Michigan Press.  Her current project concerns the relations between place and memory, and the uses of private and public photographs in memory writing.  The history and culture of Detroit and Michigan remain strong personal and research interests.

Academic qualifications

1998 PhD Cultural History, University of Leeds, UK

1988 MA Social History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

1979 BA Documentary Photography,  University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA           

1974 Associate in Arts, American University in Paris, France.

Teaching

BA L2 'Cities of Modernity,' BA L3 Dissertations, BA 'Writing Cultures' workshop

Selected publications

Books

2011 Ford Road (a novel),  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

2004 Dreaming Suburbia: Detroit and the Production of Postwar Space and Culture, Detroit: Wayne State University Press