Patrick Jagoda's Blog

Patrick Jagoda is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of new media at the University of Chicago and will begin as an Assistant Professor of English in 2012. He received his PhD in English from Duke University with a certificate in Information Science and Information Studies. Patrick is interested in the ubiquity of networks, as metaphors and material systems, in the post-1945 period. His work examines how contemporary American literature, film, television, videogames, and virtual worlds deploy different artistic forms to render the complexities of global networks. His articles and reviews have appeared in Critical Inquiry, Social Text, Neo-Victorian Studies, and American Literature.