Faculty

Justin Neuman is a professor of literary studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School. He is the author of Fiction Beyond Secularism (2014), co-author of Modernism and Its Environments (2020), and co-editor of the "Cultural Frames, Framing Culture" series at University of Virginia Press. He has completed over fifty trail ultramarathons... and still can't outrun his inbox.

Ph.D., English Language and Literature, University of Virginia, 2008 M.A., English Literature, Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, 2003 B.A., English Literature and Creative Writing, Dartmouth College, Magna Cum Laude, 1999

Books • Fiction Beyond Secularism. Northwestern University Press / FlashPoints, 2014. • Modernism and Its Environments, with Michael Rubenstein. Bloomsbury, 2020.

Book chapters • “Energy Recognition Scenes and the Myth of Global Cooling.” In Anthropocene Reading, ed. Tobias Menely and Jesse Oak Taylor. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017. • “Salman Rushdie’s Religious Cosmopolitans.” In Cosmopolitanism, Religion, and the Public Sphere, ed. Maria Rovisco. Routledge, 2014.

Selected articles & review essays • “Religious Cosmopolitanism? Orhan Pamuk, the Headscarf Debate, and the Problem with Pluralism.” Minnesota Review 77 (2011). • “Unexpected Cosmopolitans: Media and Diaspora in J. M. Coetzee’s Summertime.” Criticism 53.1 (2011). • “The Fictive Origins of Secular Humanism.” Criticism 50.4 (2008). • “In Search of a Gothic Proust.” Gothic Studies 10.1 (2008). • “Imitation Games.” NOVEL (2018).

Public essays • “Play is doing its work even if we’re not keeping score.” Aeon, 2026. • “Scrubbing In.” The Hedgehog Review. • Contributing scholar, The Immanent Frame (2008–2012).