Alfred Bendixen

Alfred Bendixen is the founder and Executive Director of the American Literature Association and a lecturer in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University.

Bendixen gained a Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina in 1979, with a thesis on "Americans in Europe before 1865 : a study of the travel book".^[1] He held posts at Barnard College (1979-1988) and California State University, Los Angeles (1988-2005) before moving to Texas A&M University, where he served as the Associate Department Head of English (2007-2009) and a Professor of English (2006 - 2013).^[2] He now serves as a lecturer in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University,^[3] having previously been a lecturer in English at the same university.^[4]

His research has centered on the recovery of 19th century literature and neglected genres, including the ghost story, detective fiction, science fiction, and travel writing.^[4]

Selected publications

• Haunted women : the best supernatural tales by American women writers (1985, F. Ungar, ISBN 9780804420525)
• Edith Wharton: New Critical Essays (1992, Garland, ISBN 9780824078485, with Annette Zilversmit)
• The Whole Family, new edition and introduction to this 12-author 1908 novel (2001, Duke UP, ISBN 9780822328384)
• The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing (2009, Cambridge UP, ISBN 9780521861090, with Judith Hamera)
• A Companion to the American Short Story (2010, Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 9781405115438, with James Nagel)
• A Companion to the American Novel (2012, Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 9781118220399)
• The Cambridge History of American Poetry (2014, Cambridge UP, ISBN 9781107003361, co-edited with Stephen Burt)
• The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture (2017, Routledge: ISBN 978-0367878740), co-edited with Olivia Carr Edenfield