Prof. Peter Knight is the Principal Investigator on this project. He is a professor of American Studies at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Conspiracy Culture and The Kennedy Assassination, and Reading the Market: Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America. He is a Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded History of Financial Advice project, and with Paul Crosthwaite and Nicky Marsh edits the book series Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture, and Economics.
