Research Bio

Joshua Gang's research interests include: 20th- and 21st-century British and Irish literature, fiction and drama in particular; literature and philosophy--especially philosophy of mind, language, and moral philosophy; the history of the novel; literary history; art and the sciences of mind; and the history of criticism.

His book Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in November 2021 (Hopkins Series in Modernism): https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/behaviorism-consciousness-and-literary-mind

His research has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, journals including Critical Inquiry, ELH, PMLA, and Novel: A Forum on Fiction. 

He is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers in 2012 and, after a fellowship at Washington University-Saint Louis and a tenure-track position at the University of Toronto, came to Berkeley in 2015. 

For more about Professor Gang and Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind: https://joshuagang.com

Research Expertise and Interest

philosophy and literature, 20th century Irish and British literature, literary theory and criticism, moral philosophy, philosophy of mind