Daniel Bergman

PhD Candidate

Campus

Areas of Interest

  • American literature
  • Immigration and transnational studies

Biography

My research focuses on parallels between narratives of maturation and narratives of citizenship acquisition in contemporary American literature. Driven by the conviction that literary scholarship can speak to wider public debates, I examine the extent to which recent fiction invites a reconsideration of the conceptions of belonging that currently structure national identity in the US and Canada.