Chris Gair is a Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has written numerous articles and books, mainly in his chief research areas, late 19th and early 20th century American literary and visual culture, the Beat Generation and the American Counterculture. He is the editor of Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations.
His chief Beat-related publications are: The Beat Generation (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2008) and The American Counterculture, 1945–1972 (Edinburgh University Press, 2007).
European Beat Studies Network 