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Ian Afflerbach is an Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of North Georgia's College of Arts & Letters, Department of English. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis (2016) and a B.A. from Wake Forest University (2009). His research focuses on American literature since 1865, Anglophone modernism, African-American literature, and critical theory. Current projects include investigating the cultural concept of 'sellouts' and analyzing liberalism's evolution in modern literature.
Teaching includes courses on African-American literature, modernism, literary criticism, and science fiction. His first book, Making Liberalism New (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021), explores liberalism's trajectory through American fiction and was a finalist for the Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize. Recent articles appear in PMLA, Novel, and Modernism/modernity.
He has held roles as a Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech (2016–2017) and Visiting Fellow at Johannes Gutenberg University (2013–2014). His work bridges literary analysis with political theory, examining themes like ideological betrayal, cultural authenticity, and the intersection of literature with societal change.
Research interests include 20th-century American literature and politics, modernist studies, periodical culture, and the history of liberal thought. He actively explores how literary works reflect and shape sociopolitical dynamics through critical frameworks like Marxism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial theory.
