Dennis M. Hogan edits the Higher Education section at Public Books. He is a scholar and writer teaching in the History and Literature program at Harvard University. His research examines the literature and culture of interoceanic transit in Central America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dennis’s work has been published in ELH, the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and Oxford Bibliographies in Victorian Literature, as well as The Baffler, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Teen Vogue, and The New York Times.
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Writing on Public Books
Toward the Next American University: A Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Higher Ed
The path higher education was on before Trump’s reelection was neither certain nor stable. There is not much to go back to now.
Drawn Together, Held Apart: Cristina Henríquez’s “The Great Divide”
Cristina Henríquez’s novel is the product of extensive historical research. It also comes amid a boom in scholarship on and depictions of Panama and the canal.












