Benjamin Fagan

Benjamin Fagan is an Associate Professor of English at Auburn University, specializing in early African American literature and culture. His research intersects media studies and cultural history, focusing on 19th-century print cultures, religious texts, and national identity formation.

• Authored The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation (2016)
• Co-editor of Visions of Glory: The Civil War in Word and Image (2019)
• Editor of African American Literature in Transition, 1830-1850 (2021)

His scholarly work has been published in journals such as American Literary History, African American Review, and American Periodicals, as well as in edited collections on the Colored Conventions Movement and Frederick Douglass. Courses he offers include H-185: African American Print Cultures in the Nineteenth Century.