About Me

Bryan M. Santin, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English at Concordia University Irvine.

Bryan M. Santin is Associate Professor of English at Concordia University Irvine, and co-chair of the English Department. He teaches courses in American literature and world literature, American history and political theory, and composition and rhetoric. His research interests focus primarily on twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature and politics, 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.

Most recently, 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.

He tweets @BMSantin