Daniel Bergman

Daniel Bergman is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English. A recent graduate of the department's PhD program, he is currently working on a monograph that illuminates new facets of the relationship between literary style and political form in twenty-first-century U.S. fiction, showing how this fiction uses its experiments with genre--and, in particular, its reformulations of culturally standardized coming-of-age narratives--to stretch and redefine the parameters of U.S. citizenship.

As part of his fellowship, he is also beginning research on a new project which interrogates the emergence of "obsolescence" as one of contemporary literature's governing thematic preoccupations, seeking to better understand how twenty-first-century fiction's apparent embrace of its own irrelevance might simultaneously reinforce and unsettle narratives of technological progress in the age of artificial intelligence.

List of Publications

• “Declarations of In-Dependence: Incomplete Love Stories, Insecure Adulthood, and Alternative Narratives of Citizenship in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies,” accepted in LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory.
• Review of Rossen Djagalov, From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema Between the Second and Third Worlds, in University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 91, No. 3, Fall 2022, pp. 344-46.