I’m a Lecturer in the Department of English at Binghamton University. 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 span Anglo-American modernism, the contemporary American novel, African American literature, critical theory, ecocriticism, and critical AI studies. Here are a couple of my publications:

"Market Texture: The Art of Genre Fiction"

in Modernism/modernity (2026).

"Mary Ellen Solt: Concretizing 1968"

in nonsite.org (2022).

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 taught on my teaching page.

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