Email: lengutkin@gmail.com
CURRENT POSITION
Editor, The Chronicle Review (2025-present)
Senior Editor, The Chronicle Review (2020–2025)
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Associate Editor, The Chronicle Review (2018-2020)
Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows (2014-16, 2018)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. English. Yale University (2014)
B.A., English. Bard College (2007)
BOOKS
Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present (University of Virginia, 2020).
ARTICLES
“On John Hawkes and Second Skin,” Literary Imagination 27.2 (2025): 157-165.
“Institutionalized Incivility.” Social Research: An International Quarterly 92.2 (2025): 503-524.
“‘Vast Impropriety’: Tragedy, Camp Negation, and the double entendre in Henry James,” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 51.2 (2018): 105-131.
“Muriel Spark’s Camp Metafiction,” Contemporary Literature 58.1 (2017): 53-81.
“Modernist Genre Decadence from H.G. Wells to William S. Burroughs,” Affirmations: of the modern 5.1 (2017): 29-54.
“The Dandified Dick: Hardboiled Noir and the Wildean Epigram,” ELH 81.4 (2014): 1299-1326.
“Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood and Decadent Style,” Literature Compass 11.6 (2014): 337-346.
“The Feral Sublime: Caspar Hauser and Melville’s Pierre,” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 15.2 (2013): 20-36.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“The Aestheticist Anti-Novel,” in British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s (Edinburgh University Press, 2019): 72-89.
“‘If not by reality’s yardstick’: Narrative Unreliability, Retrospection, and Myth in Mary Caponegro,” in La squisita interruzione: saggi, note e appunti sulla prosa lirica di Mary Caponegro (I Quaderni di Zeta, Udine, 2017): 81-90.
OCCASIONAL ESSAYS AND REVIEWS
“A Princeton President’s Evasions,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (October 2025).
“Absolute Values,” The Point (September 2025).
“The Wages of Cultural Secularization,” Liberties (January 2025).
“Fighting Words.” The Chronicle of Higher Education (October 2024).
“Is Blasphemy Illiberal?” The Yale Review (September 2024).
“Curricular Trauma.” Liberties (April 2024). (Rpt. in The Chronicle of Higher Education).
“The Hyperbolic Style in American Academe,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (February 2024).
“A Decade of Ideological Transformation Comes Undone,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 2024).
“The Blasphemer,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (February 2023).
Review of Jonathan Freedman, The Jewish Decadence. Genre 55.3 (December 2022).
“Exodus: Vaera,” Jewish Currents (April, 2020).
Review of John Frow, On Interpretive Conflict. Genre 53.1 (July 2020).
“A Tale of Two Plagiarists.” The Chronicle Review (October 11, 2019).
Review of Philip Mann, The Dandy at Dusk: Taste and Melancholy in the Twentieth Century. Modernism/modernity 26.3 (Autumn 2019): 678-680.
“Philip Roth and the Fantasies of Authorship.” Post45 (March 2019, online).
Review essay on Matthew Wilkens, Revolution: The Event in Postwar Fiction. Amerikastudien/American Studies 63.1 (Summer 2018).
Review of Bénédicte Cost, Catherine Delyfer, and Christine Reynier (eds.), Connecting Aestheticism and Modernism: Continuities, Revisions, Speculations. Modernism/modernity 24.4 (Winter 2017): 882-884.
Review of Thomas S. Davis, The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life. Modern Fiction Studies 63.4 (Winter 2017): 763-765.
“The University Is Not A Technology” (with Sam Fallon). The Chronicle of Higher Education (October 17, 2017).
“Allegory and Disturbance: On Twin Peaks: The Return.” Post45 (September 2017, online).
“Genre Mistuned: On Twin Peaks: The Return.” Post45 (August 2017, online).
Review of Claire Jarvis, Exquisite Masochism: Marriage, Sex, and the Novel Form. Los Angeles Review of Books (March 2017, online).
Review of Andrew Pepper, Unwilling Executioner: Crime Fiction and the State. Times Literary Supplement (February 10, 2017).
Review essay on Rita Felski, The Limits of Critique and Lee Konstantinou, Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction. Amerikastudien/American Studies 61.4 (Winter 2016).
“The Elenic Question: On Ferrante and Authorship” (with Merve Emre). The Los Angeles Review of Books (October 2016, online).
“Matthew Barney’s ‘Excrementitious’ Transcendentalism: On River of Fundament.” The Los Angeles Review of Books (April 2016, online).
Review of Henry Mead, T.E. Hulme and the Politics of Early Modernism. Times Literary Supplement (January 22, 2016).
“Radical Feeling in the Poetry of WWI”: Max Egremont, Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew. Boston Review (August 2014, online).
“Camp von Trier”: Lars von Trier, Nymphomaniac. The Los Angeles Review of Books (March 2014, online).
“Minority Rapport”: Review of Michael Szalay, Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party. Democracy: A Journal of Ideas 27 (January 2013): 108-115.
“The Last Obscenity”: On William Gaddis, Selected Letters. The Los Angeles Review of Books (June 2013, online).
Review of John Paul Athanasourelis, Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe. The Journal of Popular Culture 45.6 (December 2012): 1332-1334.
Review of Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet. Jacket2 (October 2012, online).
Review of Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man. Bookforum (July 2012, online).
Review of William Gaddis, JR. Bookforum (April 2012, online).
“Madame Futurist”: On Mina Loy, Selected Prose. The Brooklyn Rail (September 2011).
Review of Lyn Hejinian and Carla Harryman, The Wide Road (Belladonna, 2011). MAKE (online).
Review essay on Djuna Barnes, Ryder (Dalkey, 2010). MAKE 10 (Fall/Winter 2010-11).
SERVICE
Manuscript referee for ELH, Modernism/modernity, Genre, Modern Fiction Studies, Contemporary Women’s Writing.
Panel Organizer, “Aestheticism’s Afterlives”: Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Chicago, January 2019.
Seminar Co-Organizer, “The New Reception Studies”: American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, Universiteit Utrecht, July 2017.
Seminar Co-Organizer, “Genre As Aesthetic Judgment”: American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, Harvard University, March 2016.
Chair, “The Modern(ist) Historical Novel”: Modernist Studies Association Annual Convention, Boston, November 2015.
Seminar Co-Organizer, “Eighties Excess”: American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, New York University, March 2014.
PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED)
“Words and Other Demons”: Invited lecture, Portland State University, November 2025.
“Aestheticism, Appreciation, Critique, and the Imperiled Humanities”: American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, Chicago, March 2023.
“Camp’s Abstractions: Dandyism, Ivy-Compton Burnett, and Modernism’s End”: Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, March 2020.
“Unseriousness Seriously Pursued: More Notes on Camp”: Genre Talks featured Spring lecture, University of Oklahoma, April 2019.
“Djuna Barnes’s Decadent Science-Fictional Resonance”: American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, Georgetown University, March 2019.
“The Psychopathic Dandy: From Oscar Wilde to Bret Easton Ellis”: North American Victorian Studies Annual Convention, Phoenix, November 2016.
“Lars von Trier and Aesthetic Judgment”: Harvard Society of Fellows Annual Conference, Salon de Provence, June 2016.
“Lars von Trier’s Camp Sadism”: American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, Seattle, March 2015.
“American Psycho and Hyper-realism”: American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, New York University, March 2014.
“Homophobic Violence and the Artist Plot in Abel Ferrara’s Driller Killer”: American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, Brown University, March 2012.
“Wildean Wisecracking: Making the Epigram (More) Macho”: Yale British Studies Colloquium, November 2011.
“Reserved Heroics: From Victorian Reserve to the Hemingway Code”: Modernist Studies Association Annual Convention, SUNY Buffalo, October 2011.
“Hemingway and Aesthetic Connoisseurship”: American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, Simon Fraser University, April 2011.
“The Fiction Collective: From Historical Avant-Garde to University Press,” Yale 20/21st Colloquium, November 2010.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Harvard Society of Fellows (2014-2016, 2018).
Leylan Prize Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities, Yale University, 2012-2013.
Heinrich Bluecher Prize, Bard College, 2007.
TEACHING
Instructor, English 112, “Critical Reading and Writing II.” Endicott College, Spring 2017.
Instructor, English 111, “Critical Reading and Writing I.” Endicott College, Fall 2016.
Instructor, English 313, “World Literature.” Endicott College, Fall 2016
Language & Thinking Program, Bard College, Summer 2014.
Instructor, English 127, “Readings in American Literature.” Yale University, Spring 2014.
Instructor, English 114, “Outsiders.” Yale University, Fall 2013.
Language & Thinking Program, Bard College, Summer 2012.
Instructor, English 130, “Epic.” Yale University, Spring 2012.
Teaching Assistant, “Shakespeare’s Tragedies and Histories” (Professor David Kastan). Yale University, Fall 2011.
Teaching Assistant, “Victorian Novel” (Professor Ruth Yeazell). Yale University, Spring 2011.
Teaching Assistant, “Hemingway Faulkner Fitzgerald” (Professor Wai Chee Dimock). Yale University, Fall 2010.
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