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Alex Hofmann is an Lecturer in History at the University of Chicago, affiliated with the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS). His research focuses on the cultural history of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American South, examining how regional peculiarities illuminate broader U.S. historical dynamics.
- PhD in History from the University of Chicago
- BA in History and Political Science from the University of Southern California
Dr. Hofmann's work spans interdisciplinary approaches to historical oddities, emphasizing the interplay between destruction and creation, horror and comedy, and gravity and frivolity in American cultural history. His current manuscript, Shattered: The South after the Civil War, explores how wartime trauma reshaped white Southern cultural practices, linking them to later racial violence.
His recent publication, The Kinetic South (Southern Cultures, 2023), analyzes the South as a framework for understanding U.S. historical myths and contradictions. Courses taught include cultural history, themed spaces, and spectacle studies.
