I’m a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of English and in the College at the University of Chicago. I earned my PhD in English from the University of Chicago in 2024 and hold a BA from Wesleyan University.

I specialize in Anglo-American modernist fiction, African American literature, the contemporary novel, ecocriticism, and critical theory. My work has been published in Nonsite, ASAP/Review, and JMMLA and is forthcoming in Modernism/modernity and Mediations.

I have two book projects in progress: The Market Architecture of Modernist Fiction and Host Modernism: Novel Aesthetics and the Metabolic Rift. You can read about these projects on my research page, and about courses I've designed on my teaching page.

Feel free to contact me at cgortmaker@uchicago.edu.