Title:
Continuing Lecturer
Specialties:
Biography:
Jasper Bernes specializes in 20th-century American literature, with an emphasis on postwar poetry and poetics, Marxism, and political economy. His first book, The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization (Stanford UP, 2017), examined the role poetry and art play in the postindustrial restructuring of labor. He is presently working on The Test of Communism for Verso.
Current Research:
Genre theory and poetics. The historical novel. Literature and revolution.
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