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Tristan Schweiger is an Assistant Instructional Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at The University of Chicago, affiliated with the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities. He also serves as an Affiliate Faculty member at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture.
- Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago (2015)
- M.A. in Journalism from Columbia University
- B.A. in English and Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania
His research focuses on Atlantic literature of the long eighteenth century, particularly the intersection of gender and empire in texts from Robinson Crusoe to Rob Roy. He explores themes such as historicism, postcolonialism, Marxism, and gender theory, with recent publications on slavery and ideologies of property in eighteenth-century Caribbean literature. His courses, such as Gender, Capital, and Desire: Jane Austen and Critical Interpretation and Working 9 to 5, examine critical methodologies and representations of labor, respectively, through feminist, Marxist, and queer studies lenses.
Tristan Schweiger co-hosts the podcast Better Read than Dead: Literature from a Left Perspective and is a proud member of Faculty Forward/SEIU Local 73, the contingent faculty union at the University of Chicago. His prior experience as a reporter covering state and local politics on the East Coast informs his interdisciplinary approach to literature and critical theory.
