BSc Mech. Eng. Leeds, BA, MA, and PhD Essex
Teacher, Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies

John Cant’s research takes in the fields of US literature and cinema. He also works on Latin American cinema, with a particular interest in Argentine film. In 2007 Routledge published his book, Cormac McCarthy and the Myth of American Exceptionalism, dealing with all McCarthy’s published texts and the two short stories he wrote as a student. He has also published on The Coen Brothers and, jointly with Professor Eva-Lynn Jagoe, on Lucrecia Martel’s La niña santa. He teaches film, covering all aspects of the Department’s courses and runs a weekly programme of screenings for the Centre for Film Studies, focused on colleagues’ research interests.