About

Mark David Kaufman, PhD, is Associate Professor of English at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO, where he teaches literature and film studies. His scholarship has appeared (or is forthcoming) in American Quarterly, James Joyce Quarterly, Hypermedia Joyce Studies, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, Public Domain Review, European Journal of American Studies, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Twentieth-Century Literature, and The Space Between. Currently, he is at work on a book project, tentatively titled Spyography: Modernism, Espionage, and the Militant Aesthetic State, focusing on the relationship between modernism and national security, the weaponization of the humanities during wartime, and the cultivation of writers as spies by the Anglo-American intelligence community .

Teaching and research interests: Modern and Contemporary British, Irish, and Anglophone Literature; Transatlantic Modernism; New Modernist Studies; Law and Literature; Espionage; Hermetic Tradition; Clinical Gaze; Literary Theory