Dennis Hogan is a writer, academic, and organizer based in Providence, RI. (more)
He is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at Brown University.
His dissertation, “The Queen of Two Worlds: Crisis and Creation in the Central American Transit Zones, 1848-1914,” centers on the transit zones of Central America, two narrow strips of land comprising the interoceanic routes through Panama and Nicaragua. Focusing on writers from Panama, Nicaragua, Colombia, Britain, and the United States, the dissertation argues that we can tell the story of nineteenth-century literature only when we recognize that the struggle for Central America was integral to the global project of imperial hegemony.
Dennis also serves as the Political Director of the Graduate Labor Organization-AFT Local 6516 and the Electoral Coordinator of Reclaim RI. (less)
He is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at Brown University.
His dissertation, “The Queen of Two Worlds: Crisis and Creation in the Central American Transit Zones, 1848-1914,” centers on the transit zones of Central America, two narrow strips of land comprising the interoceanic routes through Panama and Nicaragua. Focusing on writers from Panama, Nicaragua, Colombia, Britain, and the United States, the dissertation argues that we can tell the story of nineteenth-century literature only when we recognize that the struggle for Central America was integral to the global project of imperial hegemony.
Dennis also serves as the Political Director of the Graduate Labor Organization-AFT Local 6516 and the Electoral Coordinator of Reclaim RI. (less)
Recent writing includes articles for the Baffler, Chronicle of Higher Education, Full Stop, and Teen Vogue. (more)
A full list can be found below:
- Britain in Latin America, Oxford Bibliographies in Victorian Literature, January 2022
- The Triumph of the Money Managers, The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 2021
- Those Who Can Do, The Baffler, September 2021
- Higher Education for All? This Bill Could make it Happen, Teen Vogue, July 2021 with Rithika Ramamurthy
- Paradoxical Imperialism: A New Reading of Informal Empire, Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura 36.2, Spring 2021
- Runaway American Dreams, The Baffler, April 2021
- Mary Seacole and the Cholera in Panama, Full Stop, February 2021
- How the Coronavirus Will — or Should — Transform Graduate Education, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 2020 with Rithika Ramamurthy
- Urban Geographies and the Politics of Development on Staten Island, Fabrikzeitung, April 2020
- With or Without U, Full Stop, August 2019 with Hilary Rasch
- Nobody Wins if Graduate Students Can’t Organize, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 2019
- Matter and the Idea: Hugo, Viollet-le-duc, And The Nineteenth-century Invention Of Notre Dame, V21, August 2019
- The Decadence of “Diaboliques”, LA Review of Books, April 2016
- “And that is not how Jamaica is”: Cultural Creolization, Optimism, and National Identity in Kerry Young's Pao, Anthurium, May 2015