I’m a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of English and in the College at the University of Chicago.

I specialize in Anglo-American modernist fiction and its intersections with African American literature, the contemporary novel, and critical theory. My work has been published in nonsite.org and JMMLA and is forthcoming in Modernism/modernity and Mediations.

My current book project, The Market Architecture of Modernist Fiction, argues that a distinct strain of modernism’s commitment to aesthetic autonomy spans the twentieth century and persists today by internalizing—and turning to its own ends—the market logic of capitalist modernity.

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