Eric Bennett
Eric Bennett is a professor of English at Providence College. His most recent book, Welcome to the Election Year War, will be published by T. Willingham Press later this month.
Stories by this Author
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The Review | EssayCan Literary Scholars Transcend Their Training?
The field has painted itself into a corner. John Guillory offers a way out. -
The Review
How America Taught the World to Write Small
It exported a literature of individualism and domesticity — not one of solidarity and big ideas. -
The Review
Dear Humanities Profs: We Are the Problem
Dismayed about American politics? Look in the mirror. -
The Review
How Iowa Flattened Literature
With help from the CIA, Paul Engle’s writing students battled Communism and eggheaded abstraction. The damage to writing still lingers.
