Mentoring Statement
I am interested in getting to know students at all levels, from undergraduates to graduate students. Students in my courses and any other students affiliated with the Comparative Literature department should feel free to stop by my office hours or make an appointment to talk.
Biography
Dennis M. Hogan is a postdoctoral fellow in Comparative Literature and a scholar of the hemispheric Americas. His book manuscript, The Transit Zones, reads works written in Spanish, English, and French from Panama, Nicaragua, Colombia, the U.S., France, and the British Empire to document and interpret the cultural archive that emerged from the inter-imperial competition to control the interoceanic crossings across Central America in the second half of the nineteenth century. His scholarly work has appeared in ELH, the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Anthurium, and Oxford Bibliographies in Victorian Literature, as well as in volumes from Johns Hopkins University Press and Bloomsbury. Hogan has also written on literature, culture, and politics for publications including the New York Times, N+1, The Baffler, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among others.
Beyond literary studies, Hogan also has an interest in the history and culture of work and workers and the U.S. university; he is the Higher Education section editor of Public Books and sits on the executive board of the New York Labor History Association.
Education
- PhD, AM, Brown University
- MA, Toronto Metropolitan University
- BA, Swarthmore College
Research Interests
- Central American, Caribbean, and Latin American literature
- Empire, colonialism, and diaspora
- Global 19th-century studies
- Literatures of travel, transit, and migration
- Literature and economics
Teaching Interests
- Hemispheric American literatures
- Global 19th-century literature
- Literatures of work and labor
- Latin American and Caribbean literature
- Literatures and cultures of higher education and the university
Honors and Awards
- First place for Excellence in Religion News Analysis (with Adam Haber, Matylda Figlerowicz, and Aparna Gopalan, Jewish Currents), Religion News Association (2025)
- Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Humanities, Brown University (2023)
- Albert Spaulding Cook Memorial Prize for Best Essay in Comparative Literature, Brown University (2015)