PhD - English
University of California at Berkeley - 2018
Erin Greer
Assistant Professor — Literature
pronouns: she/her
Professional Preparation
M.St. - English (1900-present)
University of Oxford - 2010
University of Oxford - 2010
BA - Literature
Duke University - 2007
Duke University - 2007
Research Areas
My teaching and research interests include 20th- and 21st-century British and Anglophone literature, ordinary language philosophy, political philosophy, feminist thought, and digital social media. My first book, Fiction, Philosophy, and the Ideal of Conversation, is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press. It enlists literature and philosophy to clarify the idealization of “conversation” as a metaphor and practice often deemed central to ethical and democratic life.Publications
Erin Greer, “Dark Posthumanism and the Novel: Zadie Smith’s NW and our Possible Futures,” Athenaeum Review 7. 2023 - publications
“Make our institutions great again,” a review of Stanley Fish’s The First: How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump, Salmagundi. 2022 - Review
“Wages For Facework: Black Mirror’s ‘Nosedive’ and Digital Reproductive Labor,” Camera Obscura 35.3 (105): 88-115. 2020 - Article
“Something that would have been somebody,” Salmagundi 208-209. * Listed as notable in Best American Essays, 2021. 2020 - Essay
“Must We Do What We Say? The Plight of Marriage in George Meredith’s The Egoist,” Stanley Cavell on Aesthetic Understanding, ed. Garry L. Hagberg. 2018 - Chapter
“‘A Many-Sided Substance’: The Philosophy of Conversation in Woolf, Russell, and Kant,” Journal of Modern Literature 40.3. 2017 - Article