Ivan Kreilkamp is an associate professor in the Department of English at Indiana University, where he is also a co-editor of the journal Victorian Studies. He’s published recently in Public Books, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and The New Yorker online.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Pistols at Dawn
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Creativity Under Capitalism: The Pop Music Critic as Public Intellectual
Robert Christgau, Dean of American Rock Critics, is a much-needed example of the public intellectual unafraid of tapping into his academic voice (and persona)....
Maximal Anxiety
THE NEW YORKER'S editor David Remnick has dubbed Roz Chast “the magazine's only certifiable genius," but to some of the magazine’...
A Rage That Had No End: The Novels of Elena Ferrante
Invariably damaged, Ferrante’s narrators and protagonists suffer from injuries that tend to shift, disconcertingly, from the figurative to the literal....
