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Jonathan Greenberg
Professor, English, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Office:
- Dickson Hall 467
- Email:
- greenbergj@ebasd.com
- Phone:
- 973-655-7850
- Degrees:
- BA, Harvard University
- MA, Princeton University
- PhD, Princeton University
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I teach many different courses in the English Department, many of them in my areas of specialization, which are English-language modernism -- British, Irish, and American -- and satire. But I also enjoy teaching introductory courses such as the departmental survey of British Literature after 1660, or "Utopian and Dystopian Fiction." I've published two books on satire: Modernism, Satire, and The Novel (2011), and The Cambridge Introduction to Satire (2019). I also co-edited a collection of essays on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (2016). I also recently published two trade books co-written with CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca, Mobituaries (2019) and Roctogenarians (2024) that blend history, humor, and cultural analysis.
Specialization
Modernism and 20th Century Literature; Comedy and Satire; Darwin and Literature; James Joyce; Literary Theory.
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Documents
- "'Was Anyone Hurt?': A Handful of Dust and the Ends of Satire"
- "Nathanael West and the Mystery of Feeling"
- "Cannibals and Catholics: Reading the Reading of Black Mischief"
- "Okonkwo and the Storyteller: Death, Accident, and Meaning in Chinua Achebe and Walter Benjamin"
- "Why Can't Biologists Read Poetry?"
- "Darwin and Literary Studies"
- "The Ideology of the Mermaid"
- The Modernist Novel's Experiments with Narrative
- Springtime for Ulysses
- Losing Track of Time
- Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Tradition of Satire
- Friendship, Liberalism, and the Novel
Research Projects
Cambridge Introduction to Satire
Part of the Cambridge Introductions series, this book aims to provide a general overview of satire for undergraduates and general readers. While it will draw upon satire from Aristophanes through Stephen Colbert, it will also place a heavy emphasis on modern and contemporary works, which have usually been neglected in favor of the ancient and Enlightenment canons.