Adam Fales

Adam Fales received his B.A. from Fordham University. His current research primarily explores the literature and history of the nineteenth-century United States, focusing on book history, women’s writing, mass culture, and queer and feminist theory. He is also a managing editor at Chicago Review.

Peer-reviewed publications:

• “‘Copyright, 1892, By Elizabeth S. Melville’: Rethinking the Field Formation of Melville Studies,” with Jordan Alexander Stein (Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 21.1, 2019)

Selected other publications:

• “Horror in Revision: On the Contemporary Gothic” (Los Angeles Review of Books)
• Collations: Book Forum On Megan Ward’s Seeming Human (V21 Collective)
• On Michael Jonik’s Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman (The British Society of Science and Literature)
• On Rachel Ingalls’s Binstead’s Safari (Full Stop)
• “Unpacking a Digital Library: A Tour through Early American Metadata” (The American Antiquarian Society)
• “See? On Jenny Xie’s Eye Level” (Debutantes)