Jonathan Greenberg

Biography

I teach many different courses in the English Department, many of them in my areas of specialization, which are English-language modernism -- British, Irish, and American -- and satire. But I also enjoy teaching introductory courses such as the departmental survey of British Literature after 1660, or "Utopian and Dystopian Fiction." I've published two books on satire: Modernism, Satire, and The Novel (2011), and The Cambridge Introduction to Satire (2019). I also co-edited a collection of essays on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (2016). I also recently published two trade books co-written with CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca, Mobituaries (2019) and Roctogenarians (2024) that blend history, humor, and cultural analysis.

Education

• BA, Harvard University
• MA, Princeton University
• PhD, Princeton University

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Research

Modernism and 20th Century Literature; Comedy and Satire; Darwin and Literature; James Joyce; Literary Theory.

Cambridge Introduction to Satire

Part of the Cambridge Introductions series, this book aims to provide a general overview of satire for undergraduates and general readers. While it will draw upon satire from Aristophanes through Stephen Colbert, it will also place a heavy emphasis on modern and contemporary works, which have usually been neglected in favor of the ancient and Enlightenment canons.