Ryan Brooks
Dissertation Fellow
Department of English
About
Ryan Brooks is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English. His research interests include 20th- and 21st-century literature, transatlantic modernism and postmodernism, and the history of literary criticism and theory. His work has been published in the critical anthology, The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television, and he has essays on Richard Powers, Jonathan Franzen, and Ben Marcus forthcoming in Twentieth-Century Literature and the critical anthology Postmodern/Postwar—and After.
Selected Publications
” ‘Feel your pain’: Neoliberalism and Social Form in Contemporary American Fiction”