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Personal profile
About
Benjamin Bergholtz is an Assistant Professor of 20th and 21st century American literature. He received his PhD from Louisiana State University in 2018, and he was a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech before joining the faculty at Louisiana Tech. His research interests include the contemporary intersections of global and American literature, critical theory, and aesthetics. These interests coalesce in his current book project, Swallowing the World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel, which argues that the maximalist novel is an aesthetic response to globalization and a global phenomenon in its own right.
Contact Information
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 318-257-3563
Education/Academic qualification
English Department, Ph.D., Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge
… → 2018
English Department, M.A., Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge
… → 2013
English Literature, B.A., University of Central Florida
… → 2009
External positions
Marion L Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology
Aug 1 2018 → Aug 1 2019
Research Interests
- 20th century American literature
- 21st century American literature
- global Anglophone literature
- literary encyclopedism
- the “maximalist” novel
- postcolonial studies
- critical theory
- multimodal pedagogy
- aesthetics of Theodor Adorno
Disciplines
- English Language and Literature
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The "Pursuit of Knowledge" and the paradoxes of postcolonial encyclopedism in Zia Haider Rahman's in the light of what we know
Bergholtz, B., Apr 1 2020, In: Genre. 53, 1, p. 79-103 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Mapping the Maximalist Novel: A Dialogue Between Students and Teachers
Bergholtz, B., Apr 23 2019, In: TechStyle: A Forum for Multimodal Pedagogy and Research by the Brittain Fellows at Georgia Tech.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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‘An Act of Geographical Violence’ Crime, Literature, and the Colonial Compulsion
Bergholtz, B., Feb 2019Research output: Other contribution
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"certainty in its purest form": Globalization, fundamentalism, and narrative in Zadie Smith's White Teeth
Bergholtz, B., 2016, In: Contemporary Literature. 57, 4, p. 541-568 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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“Certainty in Its Purest Form”: Globalization, Fundamentalism, and Narrative in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
Bergholtz, B., 2016, In: Contemporary Literature. 57, 4Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review