Henning Mankell's detective is always uneasy around those alien characters (the typographical kind).
08.26.2015
If we want to do sociology of literature, let’s get away from texts for a bit.
03.23.2015
In memory of a writer with the rare combination of democratic humanism and fantastic world-building imagination.
07.26.2014
Some methodological reflections after the DH 2014 conference. Parental advisory: Profanity, Sociology.
01.13.2014
Let’s talk about quantitative literary history and where you can find the best tacos al pastor.
04.05.2013
This post could also be called: Walter Benjamin in the Age of Me Noodling Around with Small Data.
02.11.2013
A slightly annotated reconstruction of my response to the survey distributed to all Rutgers faculty as part of the new president’s Strategic Planning initative. Subtitle: Why not be idealistic?
12.14.2012
(Co-written by AG and Ted Underwood.) Of all our literary-historical narratives it is the history of criticism itself that seems most wedded to a stodgy history-of-ideas approach—narrating change through a succession of stars or contending schools.
06.06.2012
What are the eras of publishing history? Are they literary eras?
05.16.2012
Seen through a sociologist’s eyes, the literary system can look very strange indeed.
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Andrew Goldstone
Andrew Goldstone is an Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. His book, Fictions of Autonomy: Modernism from Wilde to de Man, is published by Oxford University Press. He specializes in twentieth-century literature in English, with interests in modernist and non-modernist writing, literary theory, the sociology of literature, and the digital humanities.