Robert A. Rushing

Rob Rushing is associate professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he holds affiliate appointments with Cinema Studies and the European Union Center, and is a member of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. He works predominantly on 20th and 21st century literature and popular culture in Italian, English, French and Spanish; his research interests include modern Italian literature; film studies; critical theory, especially psychoanalysis; comparative literary studies; and genre. Rushing is the author of Resisting Arrest: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture (New York: Other Press, 2007) and Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016), winner of the AAIS 2016 prize for Best Book: Film/Media, as well as co-editor of Mad Men, Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style and the 1960s. His articles and reviews have appeared in Camera Obscura, Yale French Studies, Comparative Literature, MLN, American Literary History, and American Imago.