Benjamin Mangrum

Benjamin Mangrum is Associate Professor of Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of The Comedy of Computation: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obsolescence (Stanford University Press, 2025) and Land of Tomorrow: Postwar Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2019). He has also published articles in PMLA, Diacritics, New Literary History, Modern Fiction Studies, American Literature, American Literary History, Contemporary Literature, and elsewhere. He received the 2023 Levitan Prize from MIT and is a past member of the Michigan Society of Fellows.