Bryan M. Santin is Associate Professor of English at Concordia University Irvine, joint faculty in the Department of History and Political Thought, and Concordia’s Director of General Education. He teaches courses in American literature, world literature, American history, political theory, and constitutional law. His research interests focus primarily on twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature, politics, and law, especially in relation to race and ethnicity.
He is the author of Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism: A Literary History, 1945–2008 (Cambridge University Press, Hardcover 2021; Paperback 2023). An interview with the New Books Network was released in December 2021. Also, he is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Novel and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 2017. His dissertation was titled: Imagining the American Right: Postwar Fiction, Race, and the Rise of Modern Conservatism, 1945—2005.
More recently, he is earned his M.L.S. degree (Master of Legal Studies) from UCLA School of Law in 2025. He specialized in U.S. constitutional history, constitutional law, and legal philosophy.
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