Timothy Aubry is an associate professor of English and deputy chair of the English Department at Baruch College (CUNY), specializing in American Literature from the 20th and 21st century, contemporary fiction, literary theory and criticism, and popular culture. He received his BA from Amherst College and his PhD from Princeton. His first book, Reading as Therapy: What Contemporary Fiction Does for Middle-Class Americans (2011), explores the various therapeutic and practical purposes that contemporary American fiction serves for its readers. He is presently working on a new book project focused on the role of aesthetic judgment in contemporary academic scholarship. His articles have appeared in PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, Contemporary Literature, N+1, The Point, Paper Monument, and The Millions. At Baruch, he teaches courses in American literature, the modern novel, and world literature.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Letter to the Editor: Timothy Aubry Responds to Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s Review of His “Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures”
Timothy Aubry responds to Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s LARB review of his “Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures” (December 12, 2018)....
Songs of Innocence and Experience: Mark Greif’s “Against Everything”
Timothy Aubry on Mark Greif's "Against Everything."...
