Expertise

His research areas include post-1945 American poetry, 20th-century American literature, transatlanticism, critical theory, and aesthetics. Aesthetics has been a particularly illustrative field for Shafer when delineating the materialisms and politics of mostly French, 20th and 21st-century theorists, and when locating possible intersections between a so-called feminist, queer, or black aesthetic in American literature. One question often raised is how a modernist work can attest to a repressive more »

Past Affiliations
Degrees
MA, Dartmouth College
PhD, University of Warwick, English and Comparative Literary Studies