Mark Kaufman

Biography

Dr. Mark David Kaufman is a full-time faculty member in the Department of English and Communication at Alvernia University, where he teaches a wide range of courses in writing, literature, and film studies. He holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Tufts University, as well as a Master of Arts in English and Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Colorado State University. Kaufman has presented papers at international conferences in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, France, and the Czech Republic, and his scholarship has appeared (or is forthcoming) in a number of journals, including Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, Hypermedia Joyce Studies, the Public Domain Review, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Twentieth-Century Literature, The Space Between, and the European Journal of American Studies.

Research Interest

Kaufman’s primary research interests focus on British and Irish Modernism. In particular, the works of James Joyce have long held a fascination for him. His M.A. thesis, Roll Away the Reel World: James Joyce, Visual Textuality, and the Art of Motion Pictures, was a national finalist for the Western Association of Graduate Schools Distinguished Thesis Award (2003). In recent years, he has cultivated an interest in the intersection of law and literature, especially as it pertains to the discord between government secrecy and freedom of expression. He is currently at work on a book project, tentatively titled Spyography: Modernism, Espionage, and the Militant Aesthetic State, which examines the problematic recruitment of writers into the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) through literary texts, memoirs, and recently declassified government documents housed in the UK National Archives in Kew.