A historian, writer, and photographer, Amy’s studies took place in France, Massachusetts and England. She completed her BA in Documentary Photography and MA in History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her PhD, a cultural history of postwar American suburbia, was completed at Leeds University in 1998.

Amy has more than ten years of teaching experience gained at Leeds University, Leeds Trinity, Goldsmiths (University of London), and Leiden University in the Netherlands.  She left university lecturing in 2016 to work as a freelance writer and academic editor. She has edited publications for research organizations and scholars preparing manuscripts for submission to funding bodies, journals, and book publishers.

Amy’s teaching areas (undergraduate and postgraduate) have included the following: Social and Cultural History, Urban Studies,  Film History, Communications/Media, and American Studies. Her university posts also included acting as a dissertation supervisor, as well as providing support to international students. She has experience in student assessment at all levels including essays, exams, thesis preparation, and oral presentations. At Leeds Trinity, she was the Admissions Tutor for the Centre for Cultural Studies.

Amy is the author of a nonfiction book, Dreaming Suburbia (Wayne State University Press) and a novel, Ford Road (University of Michigan Press). She has written for The Detroit News, Salon, Bright Lights Film Journal, Belt Magazine, Eclectica Magazine, Streetlight Magazine, and the London Financial Times ‘Urban Ingenuity’ series. She was a winner of the Streetlight Magazine short/short fiction contest (2016), and her 2015 essay titled “Of Rumor and Riot” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize (US). She has also blogged for the Huffington Post UK.