Erik Dussere

Erik Dussere is originally from Oswego, in central New York. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts, and his Ph.D. is from Rutgers University. He currently lives in Takoma Park, MD and teaches classes in literature and film at American University in Washington, DC. He has published Balancing the Books (a study of the way that the novels of Toni Morrison and William Faulkner deal with the history of slavery) and America Is Elsewhere (which looks at the tradition of "noir" in post-WWII film and fiction and its relationship to consumer culture). He has also written about X-Men comics (in Salon) and Pogo comic strips (in the Journal of American Culture). His first novel, The West House, was published in 2020.