Erik M. Bachman is a postgraduate researcher and lecturer in the Literature Department and Porter College at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Likewise, he serves as an English instructor at Foothill College, Monterey Peninsula College, Columbia College, Modesto Junior College, and Merced College. His teaching appointments at Columbia College and Merced College include course offerings and tutoring sessions through the Rising Scholars Program at Valley State Prison, Central California Women’s Facility, and Sierra Conservation Center.

Erik’s areas of study include transatlantic modernism, literary naturalism, legal studies, film, and twentieth-century U.S. and world Anglophone literature, on which topics he has published numerous articles and book chapters. His first book, Literary Obscenities: U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism, was published in April 2018 as part of the Refiguring Modernism series at Penn State University Press. He is currently developing two new book projects: (1) The Intellectuals Who Failed Better, a comparative assessment of how literary and dramatic categories shaped the reception of the Moscow Show Trials among American, British, Anglophone Caribbean, and German intellectuals; and (2) an as-yet-untitled project that resituates the development of mid-twentieth-century British horror films in terms of the formation of the European Union. He is also the co-editor of the Lukács Library, for which he has translated both volumes of Die Eigenart des Ästhetischen (The Specificity of the Aesthetic). He has taught lecture and seminar courses on modernist literature, science fiction, film, aesthetics, creative writing, and composition.

You will find a current-ish CV here. You can reach him via email (ebachman followed by @ucsc.edu). He’ll no longer Tweet when pressed. His academia.edu page exists here.