Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts & Science; Gallatin
Project: Chartist drama: the performance of politics and the politics of performance
Greg Vargo is an assistant professor in the department of English, FAS and the Gallatin School. His research focuses on the literary and cultural milieu of nineteenth-century British protest movements and the interplay between politics, periodical culture, and the novel. He is the author of An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction: Chartism, Radical Print Culture, and the Social Problem Novel (Cambridge UP, forthcoming 2017-18), which suggests that underground newspapers affiliated with radical movements fostered an experimental literary culture which stretched the contours of well-known Victorian genres including the Bildungsroman, melodrama, and social-problem fiction. A new research project focuses on anti-imperialism in nineteenth-century British radicalism. At the Center for the Humanities, he will be working on the role of theater in working-class political movements of the Victorian era.