Amy Hungerford began her teaching career at Yale in 1999 after completing her M.A. and Ph.D. in English and American Literature at the Johns Hopkins University, where she had earlier earned a degree in creative writing (M.A., Poetry, 1993). She was promoted to Professor of English at Yale in 2007. Her first book, The Holocaust of Texts (Chicago, 2003), examines how American writers have engaged the history of genocide since World War II. Her most recent book, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960 (Princeton UP, 2010), was shortlisted for the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Textual Study of Religion. Her current research focuses on the artistic and social networks that thrive today through independent print and digital publishing ventures, independent bookstores, and community book clubs. Prof. Hungerford is a regular contributor to the Yale Review, and she was one of the early, featured lecturers for Open Yale Courses, with “American Novel Since 1945,” a course she still teaches and that often features visits from contemporary authors. Among other honors, Prof. Hungerford was awarded the Robert Frost Chair in the summer of 2011 by the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College for excellence in teaching, and the Poorvu Family Prize of Yale College for innovation and excellence in interdisciplinary teaching in spring 2005.
