Michael Borgstrom, PhD

Michael Borgstrom teaches and writes about American literature, sexuality and gender studies, African American literature, and critical race theory. A former Mellon Foundation fellow, his book Minority Reports: Identity and Social Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Literature was published in 2010 by Palgrave Macmillan as part of their Future of Minority Studies series. Additional work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in journals such as PMLA, African American Review, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, and Journal of Homosexuality. He is currently at work on a new project, tentatively titled Anxiety Attacks: Queerness and Cultural Tension in American Literary History.