Connor Bennett

PhD Candidate

Campus

Areas of Interest

  • American Literature
  • Psychoanalysis

Biography

My SSHRC-funded dissertation frames American literary minimalism as a melancholic mode of composition. I argue that minimalist stylistics serve their practitioners as a means through which to renegotiate and reinvent American idealism in the post-war United States.

List of Publications

“Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, Aesthetics,” Contemporaries at Post45 cluster co-edited with Michael Dango

Additional Information

Recipient of the TATP's TA Teaching Excellence Award, 2023