Senior Instructor

About

  • Office Hours

    M 1-1:45, F 11-1; and by appointment

  • Role

    Faculty

  • Position

    • Senior Instructor

  • Department

    • English and University Composition Program

  • Education

    • Ph.D. English, University of Iowa
    • B.A. English, St. Olaf College

Biography

Mark Bresnan has taught American literature, American studies, critical and theory and composition at Colorado State since 2018. Professor Bresnan has a Ph.D. in contemporary American literature from the University of Iowa and has published articles and essays on work by Philip Roth, David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Ben Fountain. Since 2023, he has worked with Wiki Education to teach students how to better understand and edit Wikipedia. He lives in Boulder County with his wife and daughter.

Publications

Recent Publications

“Archive Anxiety in Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City.” Literature Interpretation Theory. Special Issue: “Literature and/as Archive.” Eds. Pieter Vermeulen and Tom Chadwick. 31:1 (Winter 2020): 8-24.

"Considering Composition: Teaching David Foster Wallace in the First-Year Writing Classroom." Approaches to Teaching The Works of David Foster Wallace. Modern Language Association, 2019: 68-74.

“‘Try to Stay Awake’: David Foster Wallace, the Political Media, and John McCain.” The David Foster Wallace Society Blog. September 5, 2018.

“At once distant and very close: The Millions Interviews Bill McKibben.” The Millions. October 17, 2017.

“America First: Reading Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America in the Age of Trump.” Los Angeles Review of Books. September 11, 2016.