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Tristan Schweiger received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago in 2015. His research focuses on Atlantic literature of the long eighteenth century. He holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in English and Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation, titled "Planters, Mariners, Nabobs, Squires: Masculine Types and Imperial Ideology, 1719-1817," assesses the intersection of gender and empire in texts spanning from "Robinson Crusoe" to "The Wild Irish Girl" and "Rob Roy." He has published works on the ideologies of slavery in eighteenth-century Caribbean literature. His broader research interests include historicism, postcolonialism, Marxism, and gender theory. Before returning to academia, he worked as a reporter covering state and local politics for a series of newspapers on the East Coast. In the classroom, he discusses a broad spectrum of literary works and co-hosts the podcast "Read More Than Dead: Literature from a Left Perspective." He is a proud member of Faculty Forward/SEIU Local 73, the contingent faculty union at the University of Chicago.
Department of Philosophy