Chris R. Vials

Biography
Chris R. Vials, visiting assistant professor of literature, holds a B.A. in English and History from the University of Texas at Austin, a M.A. in English Literature from the Ohio State University, and a Ph. D. in English and American Studies from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His major area of study is late 19th and early 20th century American history, literature, and culture, with emphases on popular culture, working class literature, visual culture, and ethnic American literature. His dissertation, forthcoming from the University Press of Mississippi, deals with the intersection of realist aesthetics, mass culture, and the Popular Front social movement of the 1930s and 1940s. His latest work will be appearing in Criticism: a Quarterly for Literature and the Arts.