Rivky Mondal
استاد آموزشی · late 19th and 20th century American and British literature
University of Chicagoمعرفی
Rivky Mondal is a Humanities Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago with dual appointments in the English Department and Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Specializing in late 19th-21st century literature, their research bridges modernist aesthetics, affect theory, and queer studies. Their work interrogates how minoritarian strategies like tact, opacity, and introversion negotiate systemic inequalities through literary form.
Current projects include Subtle Distinctions, analyzing microsocial encounters in modern novels from Henry James to Sally Rooney, and A Modern History of Introversion, tracing the sociocultural evolution of introversion as a critical counterpoint to neoliberal individualism. Publications appear in The Henry James Review, Camera Obscura, and Textual Practice.
Teaching emphasizes archival research and sociological methodologies, integrating praxis between pedagogy and scholarship. Ongoing work explores how literary forms articulate underhanded social strategies that paradoxically sustain social cohesion despite power imbalances.
