I’m a Lecturer in the Department of English at Binghamton University, State University of New York. 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, and critical theory.

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. You can find syllabi and descriptions of courses I've taught—such as "Literature vs. AI" and "Climate Fiction"—on my teaching page.

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