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'm an Americanist whose research and teaching spans Anglo-American modernism, the contemporary American novel, African American literature, ecocriticism, and critical theory. I have peer-reviewed articles published or forthcoming in Modernism/modernity and Nonsite, and review essays published or forthcoming in Critical Inquiry, Mediations, ASAP/Review, and JMMLA.

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.