Yonina Hoffman

Yonina Hoffman is an Assistant Professor of English at the US Merchant Marine Academy. Yonina’s research applies systems theory and phenomenology to 20th century literature and the global systems novel. Yonina’s first book, The Voices of David Foster Wallace, used concepts from narrative theory, rhetoric, and phenomenology to to examine the experience of reading through novelistic progression and narrative “voice.” Yonina’s new book project, Ending the Endless, examines the way that contemporary systems novels understand the globe. These projects and Yonina’s others on phenomenology, literature, religion, and environment frequently return to systems concepts of feedback loops and self-regulation to approach all dimensions of literature.