Andrew Hoberek
Andrew Hoberek
PhD 1998, University of Chicago
Contemporary US and global literature; twentieth and twenty-first-century American literature; African American literature; comics and graphic novels; film and visual culture
Andrew Hoberek teaches courses in twentieth and twenty-first-century American literature and culture and in African American literature. He is the author of The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work (Princeton University Press, 2005) and Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics (Rutgers University Press, 2015). He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and co-editor, with Jason Gladstone and Daniel Worden, of the volume Postmodern/Postwar—And After (University of Iowa Press, 2016). He has recently published an essay on Don DeLillo's impact on contemporary culture in The Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023) and another on Melville and insurrection in the journal American Literary History (https://academic.oup.com/alh/article-abstract/35/1/23/7049033). His current research projects include books in progress on the 1970s Marvel comic book series The Micronauts and on the Tammy Wynette song "Stand by Your Man," an essay on setting for the forthcoming Routledge Companion to the Novel, and another essay on the Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness's 1935 novel Independent People. He is also an affiliate faculty member in the Black Studies Program (https://blackstudies.missouri.edu).
Fellowship from the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University
“DeLilloesque: DeLillo’s Cultural Impact,” The Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts, ed. Catherine Gander (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023)
“Melville, Insurrection, and the Problem of the Nation,” American Literary History 35.1 (Spring 2023): 23-37
“Pop Art and the Fictional Middle Class,” nonsite 37, special issue on Contemporary Art and the PMC (Part One), 8 December 2021, https://nonsite.org/pop-art-and-the-fictional-middle-class/
“Literary, but Not Prestigious: Lupin and the Serious Pleasures of Amorality,” Contemporaries, cluster on New Literary Television, ed. Arin Keeble and Samuel Thomas, 2 November 2021, https://lfq.salisbury.edu/_issues/49_4/of_watchment_and_great_men_the_gra phic_novel_the_television_series_and_the_police.html
“Another Toy Story: The Micronauts, Rom, and Capitalist Epic,” The Other 1980s: Reframing Comics’ Crucial Decade, ed. Brannon Costello and Brian Cremins (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021) 120-135
“Popular Genres and Interiority,” Amerikastudien/American Studies 64:4 (2019): 567-578
Andrew Hoberek, "The Forever War, or, Did the Cold War Really End?." Neocolonial Fictions, ed. Steven Belletto and Joseph Keith (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2019) 204-220
Andrew Hoberek, "Wallace and American Literature.” The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace, ed. Ralph Clare (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Andrew Hoberek, “Literary Genre Fiction.” American Literature in Transition: 2000-2010, ed. Rachel Greenwald Smith (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Andrew Hoberek, “Post-recession Realism.” Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture, ed. Mitchum Huehls and Rachel Greenwald Smith (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)
Andrew Hoberek, ed., Postmodern/Postwar—and After (with Jason Gladstone and Daniel Worden; Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2016), www.uipress.uiowa.edu
Andrew Hoberek, ed., The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy (Cambridge University Press, 2015), www.cambridge.org
Andrew Hoberek, Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics (Rutgers University Press, 2015), rutgerspress
Andrew Hoberek. The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work (Princeton University Press, 2005) www.pupress.princeton.edu