Jordan SavageJordan Savageis a Lecturer in United States Literature at the University of Essex. Her research centres on literary and cinematic constructions of US.nationalism and national identity. She is interested in the iconography of dirt in the Wester; poetry, especially Native poetry, offering counter-narratives to US nationalism; and the myth structure of American Exceptionalism. Jordan has published on contemporary poetry from Britain and the USA, modern poetics, and Western generic studies. Read More Read Less