James Berger

James Berger is Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Yale University. He received his B.A. from Columbia University, his M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. His interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature, literary theory, disability studies, neuroscience and literature, and apocalyptic literature and film, the latter including apocalypticism and the notion of the “post-apocalyptic” in exploring the limits of language, the relations between language and non-language, the status of discursive objects imagined as somehow–whether through global catastrophe, personal impairment, or religious or ethical imperative–outside the bounds of discourse. Dr. Berger is the author of multiple scholarly articles, and his books include After the End: Representations of Post-Apocalypse.