Joseph Litvak

Joseph Litvak is Professor of English at Tufts University.  He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University in 1981.  His research interests include Victorian Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Mass Culture of the Cold War and Jewish Cultural Studies.  He is the author of Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory and the Novel (Duke University Press, 1997) and Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel (University of California Press, 1992) He is also the author of After the Jew: Stoolpigeon Culture and the Hollywood Blacklist, forthcoming from Duke University Press.  His essay on Proust and “sophistication” appeared in Novel Gazing, an anthology edited by Eve Sedgwick.