Alfred Bendixen

Alfred Bendixen is the founder and Executive Director of the American Literature Association and a lecturer in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University.

Bendixen gained a Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina in 1979, with a thesis on "Americans in Europe before 1865 : a study of the travel book". He held posts at Barnard College (1979-1988) and California State University, Los Angeles (1988-2005) before moving to Texas A&M University, where he served as the Associate Department Head of English (2007-2009) and a Professor of English (2006 - 2013). He now serves as a lecturer in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University, having previously been a lecturer in English at the same university.

His research has centered on the recovery of 19th century literature and neglected genres, including the ghost story, detective fiction, science fiction, and travel writing.

Selected publications

• Haunted women : the best supernatural tales by American women writers (1985, F. Ungar, )
• Edith Wharton: New Critical Essays (1992, Garland, , with Annette Zilversmit)
• The Whole Family, new edition and introduction to this 12-author 1908 novel (2001, Duke UP, )
• The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing (2009, Cambridge UP, , with Judith Hamera)
• A Companion to the American Short Story (2010, Wiley-Blackwell, , with James Nagel)
• A Companion to the American Novel (2012, Wiley-Blackwell, )
• The Cambridge History of American Poetry (2014, Cambridge UP, , co-edited with Stephen Burt)
• The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture (2017, Routledge: ), co-edited with Olivia Carr Edenfield