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Daniel Hack’s work explores how literary texts shape and contest the meaning of the world. He is the author of two notable books: "Material Interests: Victorian Novel" published by the University of Virginia Press in 2005, which examines how Victorian novelists turned the potentially troubling implications of the material world into literary value and cultural authority; and "Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature," published by Princeton University Press in 2017, which highlights the significance of African American writers and editors in reinterpreting contemporary British literature in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Currently, he is working on a project that investigates the connection between meaning-making practices and the logic of novels in relation to real life, placing this within the broader narrative of the rise of meaningfulness as a core value in modern life. The courses he teaches include topics such as the realities portrayed in fiction, the relationship between plot and meaning, and the interplay of race within transatlantic print culture.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science