bio

Amy Hungerford, the Ruth Fulton Benedict Professor of English and Comparative Literature, currently serves as Dean and Executive Vice President of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University. She is responsible for a full-time research and teaching faculty of 900 across the Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences, as well as the collective mission of the five graduate and undergraduate schools within Arts and Sciences. A scholar of American literature, her first two monographs—The Holocaust of Texts and Postmodern Belief—explore literary engagements with genocide and with religion in the 20th century. Her most recent book, Making Literature Now, examines how social networks shape contemporary writers’ creative choices and the choices we make about reading.