Dennis Hogan is a writer, academic, and organizer based in Providence, RI.
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He is a Lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard University; from 2023 to 2024, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Haverford College.
His research interests include literature and economics in nineteenth-century Central America and labor in the contemporary US university.
His research project “The Queen of Two Worlds: Crisis and Creation in the Central American Transit Zones, 1848-1914,” centers on the transit zones of Central America, two narrow strips of land comprising the interoceanic routes through Panama and Nicaragua. Focusing on writers from Panama, Nicaragua, Colombia, Britain, and the United States, the project argues that we can tell the story of nineteenth-century literature only when we recognize that the struggle for Central America was integral to the global project of imperial hegemony.
Dennis has also served as the RI Political Director of SEIU 1199NE, the Political Director of the Graduate Labor Organization-AFT Local 6516 and the Electoral Coordinator of Reclaim RI.
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Recent work includes organizing the symposium "Universities and Democracy" at Haverford College, scholarly publications in the
Revista de Estudios Hispánicos,
ELH and
Oxford Bibliographies in Victorian Literature, and popular writing in
The New York Times,
LARB,
Lux,
the Baffler,
The Chronicle of Higher Education,
Full Stop,
Jewish Currents and
Teen Vogue.
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A full list can be found below:
- Exilio e imaginación geográfica del liberalismo colombiano: Santiago Pérez Triana escapa por los Llanos orientales, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 58.3 (October 2024)
- The NIH Cuts Are Part Of An All-Out War On Higher Education, Defector, February 28, 2025
- TV Interview: "Dennis Hogan on Trump threats to take back Panama canal," France 24, February 2, 2025
- "US Imperial Hubris in Central America," The Dig Newsletter, January 2025
- TV Interview, "Is China involved in running the Panama Canal like US President Trump claims?," DW News, January 21, 2025
- Radio Interview, "The Panama Canal and Climate Change," Today with Claire Byrne (RTE), January 13, 2025
- Radio Interview: "Trump Threatens to Retake Panama Canal," The Current (CBC), January 6, 2025
- The Panama Canal Has a Big Problem, But it's Not China or Trump, The New York Times, January 1, 2025
- Drawn Together, Held Apart: Cristina Henríquez's The Great Divide, Public Books, November 14, 2024
- Radio Interview: Staten Island's Politics of Resentment, This Is Hell, September 2024
- I Got Mine: Staten Island's Politics of Resentment, The Baffler 75, September 2024
- Who Has the Right to "Disrupt" the University, Jewish Currents, May 3, 2024
- "University City: Race, Power, and Politics in Philadelphia" Class profiled by Haverford College
- Universities and Democracy Symposium, February 2024
- "Our Americas: Imagining the Hemisphere" Class profiled by Haverford College
- Capture the Flagship, The Baffler, September 2023
- "All Ways Open to All Men": Anthony Trollope and Mary Seacole in the Central American Transit Zones, ELH, March 2023
- Radio Interview: Higher Ed Crisis with Dennis Hogan, The Dig Podcast, February 2023
- Ruling Class in Session: On Charlie Eaton's Bankers in the Ivory Tower, LARB, August 2022
- The Seditious Foreigner: Reissuing the writing of Puerto Rican labor leader Luisa Capetillo, Lux Magazine, April 2022
- A Conversation with Robin D.G. Kelley and Naomi Williams, moderated by Dennis Hogan and Rithika Ramamurthy, Aydelotte Foundation at Swarthmore College, January 2022
- Britain in Latin America, Oxford Bibliographies in Victorian Literature, January 2022
- The Triumph of the Money Managers, The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 2021
- Those Who Can Do, The Baffler, September 2021
- Higher Education for All? This Bill Could make it Happen, Teen Vogue, July 2021 with Rithika Ramamurthy
- Paradoxical Imperialism: A New Reading of Informal Empire, Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura 36.2, Spring 2021
- Runaway American Dreams, The Baffler, April 2021
- Mary Seacole and the Cholera in Panama, Full Stop, February 2021
- How the Coronavirus Will — or Should — Transform Graduate Education, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 2020 with Rithika Ramamurthy
- Urban Geographies and the Politics of Development on Staten Island, Fabrikzeitung, April 2020
- With or Without U, Full Stop, August 2019 with Hilary Rasch
- Nobody Wins if Graduate Students Can’t Organize, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 2019
- Matter and the Idea: Hugo, Viollet-le-duc, And The Nineteenth-century Invention Of Notre Dame, V21, August 2019
- The Decadence of “Diaboliques”, LA Review of Books, April 2016
- “And that is not how Jamaica is”: Cultural Creolization, Optimism, and National Identity in Kerry Young's Pao, Anthurium, May 2015
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