Joseph Rosenberg

Joseph Rosenberg is an Associate Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies and a Concurrent Assistant Professor in the Department of English Education at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a Fellow at the Nanovic Institute. His academic credentials include a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from the University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall), an M.A. in English Literature from Queen's University (Canada), and a B.A. in English (First-class Honors) from the University of King's College (Dalhousie University).

Rosenberg's research focuses on modernism, the avant-garde, print culture, and literary theory. His first monograph, Wastepaper Modernism: Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Ruins of Print (2021), examines how modernist literature engages with the materiality of paper and textual decay. He is currently working on a second book, Undone: Late Modernism and the Aesthetics of Failure, exploring post-war modernism's turn toward deflationary aesthetics. His work has appeared in journals like Modernism/Modernity and Critical Quarterly.

Rosenberg has received major fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and won the 2015 Space Between Society Essay Prize for his piece Paper Bombs. His scholarship bridges literary analysis with broader cultural critiques of media and communication.