Andrew Hebard
Education
- Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2003
- M.A., University of Chicago
- B.A., Yale University
Research Interests
- Late 19th and 20th century Literature
- Law and Literature
- Sovereignty
- Genre
- Literature and the Environment
Teaching Interests
- American Literature
- Literary Theory
- Genre
- Law and Literature
- Literature and the Environment
Selected Publications
Book
- The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885-1910. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013
Book Chapters
- "Realism and Naturalism" in Realism and the Novel. e.d Paul Stasi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2024.
Articles
- “Political Corruption and Mark Twain’s West” Mark Twain Annual (2022) 20: 174-89.
- “’Vast, Vague, and Impersonal’: Statistics, Ecology, and the Aesthetics of Scale in Frank Norris’s The Octopus.” Studies in American Naturalism (Summer 2022) 17.1: 1-24.
- "Science and Aesthetics in American Realism" in The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism, Ed. Keith Newlin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- "Race Conservation and Imperial Sovereignty in Sutton Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio," Arizona Quarterly, Fall 2015.
- "Disruptive Histories: Towards a Radical Politics of Remembrance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog," in Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog," Ed Griselda Pollock and Max Silverman. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2011.
- "Law, Literature, and the 'Situation' of Immigration," Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Winter 2012.
- "Romance and Riot: Charles Chesnutt, the Romantic South and the Conventions of Extralegal Violence," African American Review, Spring 2012.
- "Romantic Sovereignty: Popular Romances and the American Imperial State in the Philippines," American Quarterly, September, 2005.
Recent Reviews
- Review of John Cullen Gruesser, A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line, American Literary History, 2023.
- Review of Michael Lundblad, The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture. In American Literary History, 2015.
- Review of Meg Wesling, Empire’s Proxy: American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines, in 19th Century Literature, 2014.
- Review of Jonathan Kertzer, Poetic Justice and Legal Fictions, in Modern Philology, 2012.
- Review of Susan K. Harris, God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902, in Journal of American History, 2012.
Awards
- NEH Seminar Grant at the Newberry Library, 2010
- Huntington Library Summer Grant, 2005
Work in Progress
Andrew Hebard is currently working on a book that examines the relationship between literary conventions and attempts to regulate political corruption during the Progressive Era.