Patrick P. Jagoda, Graduate Instructor
Email Address: ppj2@duke.edu
Specialties:
20th Century/Modernist Studies
Critical Theory
American Literature
Postcolonial Literature
Other
Education:
BA, Pomona College, 2004
Research Categories: Aesthetics of terror(ism), American political fiction, Politics of new media, Synthetic worlds
Research Description: Patrick Jagoda specializes in post-1945 American literature, new media, critical theory, emerging technologies, and speculative fiction. He is particularly interested in theories of American Empire, representations of contemporary terror(ism), and the ethicopolitical dimensions of literature and media. Recently, he has sought to apply observations from the emergent, interdisciplinary field of social network theory to the ways in which users interact in persistent online 'synthetic worlds': spaces that serve both as virtual actualizations and experimental laboratories of possible economic, cultural, and political realities. His current work concerns aesthetic representations of contemporary (revolutionary) terrorism in literary, electronic, and media texts.