A discussion of fiction and other writing about plagues, viruses, and diseases, and the ways we humans deal with them.
Dr. Santin is Assistant Professor of English at CUI. He teaches courses in American literature and world literature, American history and political theory, and composition and rhetoric. His research interests focus primarily on twentieth and twenty-first American literature and politics, especially in relation to race and ethnicity.
He is the author of the forthcoming book Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism: A Literary History, 1945–2008 (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
He obtained his Ph.D. in English from the University of Notre Dame. He tweets @BMSantin