Christopher GoGwilt
Professor
(On Leave Fall 2026)
BA, Swarthmore; Ph.D., Princeton University
Research and Teaching Interests: Victorian and modernist studies (British, American, European, and comparative colonial and postcolonial literatures); postcolonial studies; ecology and literature; critical theory
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Christopher GoGwilt is the author of The Passage of Literature: Genealogies of Modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya (Oxford, 2011) which won the Modernist Studies Association book prize for 2012. His most recent book is The K-Effect: Romanization, Modernism, and the Spacing and Timing of Print Culture (forthcoming from Fordham UP, 2023). He is also the author of The Fiction of Geopolitics: Afterimages of Culture from Wilkie Collins to Alfred Hitchcock (Stanford, 2000) and The Invention of the West: Joseph Conrad and the Double-Mapping of Europe and Empire (Stanford, 1995). He has published numerous essays in the areas of Victorian studies, modernism, colonialism, and post-colonialism as book-chapters and in such journals as Comparative Literature Studies, Cultural Critique, Modernism/Modernity, Mosaic, New German Critique, Victorian Studies, and The Yale Journal of Criticism. Recent publications include “Jean Rhys and Indonesia: A Lineage and Alienage” (in Transnational Jean Rhys, Bloomsbury, 2021) “Indonesian Dissidence and Modern Narrative Form: Pramoedya Ananta Toer” (in A Companion to World Literature, Wiley and Sons, 2019), and "The Novel and the Nation" (in A Companion to the English Novel. Wiley-Blackwell, 2015). He is the co-editor of Westernness: Critical Reflections on the Spatio-Temporal Construction of the West (de Gruyter, 2022) and Mocking Bird Technologies: The Poetics of Parroting, Mimicry, and Other Starling Tropes (Fordham University Press, 2018). His website is chris.gogwilt.com.