Andrew Hoberek
Andrew Hoberek
PhD 1998, University of Chicago
Contemporary US and global literature; twentieth and twenty-first-century American literature; comics and graphic novels; film and visual culture; hip-hop
Andrew Hoberek teaches courses in twentieth and twenty-first-century American literature and culture. 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 a former Comics/ Graphic Novels Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books (https://lareviewofbooks.org), and has recently published an essay 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 a book in progress on the song "Stand by Your Man" and its appearance in films of the 1970s, 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
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, forthcoming)
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