Gayle Rogers
- Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Department Chair
Gayle's Affiliations: LRDC, LSET Hub, HAIL, Pitt Cyber, PASTA, Center for Governance and Markets, PEEL, Global Studies Center, Center for Latin American Studies, European Studies Center, Cultural Studies, Critical Quarterly, Pitt News
Gayle Rogers is Andrew W. Mellon professor and chair of English, Dietrich School Special Liaison for Outreach and Development, and affiliated faculty with Pitt Cyber, the Center for Governance and Markets, the Global Studies Center, the Center for Latin American Studies, the European Studies Center, and the Cultural Studies program. He works primarily on prediction, the history of ideas, global modernisms, translation theory, comparative literature, critical history, and the intersections of literature, economics, and risk theory.
His current projects include: developing inclusive LLM feedback and tutoring models (with Lorraine Li and Diane Litman), funded by Tools Competition, LRDC, and Pitt Cyber; studies of language prediction in Generative AI, including its academic, K-12 curricular, and workplace applications; and studies of prediction in cultural history.
His recent works include Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI (Columbia University Press, 2021) and The New Modernist Studies Reader: An Anthology of Essential Criticism, ed. with Sean Latham (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). He was also editor of “Risk: A Dossier”, a special issue of Critical Quarterly (April 2021).
His previous books include Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of American and Spanish Literatures (Columbia UP, 2016), and Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History (Oxford UP, 2012). With Sean Latham, he co-authored Modernism: Evolution of an Idea (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). This book launched the New Modernisms series, which Latham and Rogers co-edited.
He is a former member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Departments of English and an MLA Certified External Reviewer. He serves on the editorial board of Modernism/modernity and, in the past, served on the board of the Modernist Studies Association. He was a member of the organizing committee for MSA’s 2014 conference in Pittsburgh. He has been a member of the MLA First Book Prize committee and chaired the MSA Book Prize committee. He chaired the MLA's division on prose fiction. He is associate editor Critical Quarterly, and with Jonathan Arac, was co-organizer of the 2016 Society for Novel Studies conference. At Pitt, he has been chair of the Humanities Council, co-director of the Literature Program and associate chair of English, along with many school- and university-level service roles. His teaching focuses on modernism, world literary history, the politics of translation and aesthetic theory, cosmopolitanism and history, and the novel.
His work has been funded by Tools, LRDC, Pitt Cyber, Pitt Momentum Funds, the NEH, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sports.
Representative Publications
“Translation in Hispanophone Modernism,” with María del Pilar Blanco, in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernism and Translation (forthcoming)
“With AI finishing your sentences, what will happen to your unique voice on the page?” The Conversation (March 17, 2026).
“Want to Boost Your Major? Get to Know Your Neighbors,” ADE Bulletin 162 (2025): 103-109.
“Speculation and Predictive Technology,” in Speculative Enquiries, ed. Connell Vaughn and Marinos Koutsomichalis (Dublin: EUT Academic Press, 2024): 26–38.
Interview with Intelligent Investor (Jason Zweig, Wall Street Journal), April 2022.
“The Story of Speculation” (Being Human Podcast Interview), January 2022.
Interview with Report on Business, November 2021.
“Cryptocurrency, Speculation, and How We Imagine the Future,” CUP Blog (November 2021).
“Too Much Information: Candor and the Department Chair,” Chronicle of Higher Education (October 2021).
“Why Does Speculation Persist in the Age of Predictive Data?”, History News Network (July 2021).
“Speculation” (New Books Network Podcast Interview).
“What the Memestock and Crypto Surges Say about Speculating in the 21st Century” (Thorns Have Roses Podcast Interview).
“From Tulips and Scrips to Bitcoin and Meme Stocks: How the Act of Speculating Became a Financial Mania,” The Conversation (April 2021; republished in 30+ media outlets).
“Risk’s Instruments: Speculation, Futurity, and Modernist Finance,” in The New Modernist Studies, ed. Douglas Mao (Cambridge UP, 2021): 278–96.
“Translation and/as Disconnection,” co-ed. and intro. with Joshua L. Miller, Modernism/modernity Print Plus (Sept. 2018).
Oliverio Girondo's 'Superwords,' Public Books
“Death by Prefix? The Paradoxical Life of Modernist Studies,” LA Review of Books
"Translation,” in A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism, ed. Eric Hayot and Rebecca L. Walkowitz (Columbia UP, 2016), 248–62.
“American Modernisms in the World,” in The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel, ed. Joshua Miller (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015), 227–44.
“‘Spanish is a language Tu’: Hemingway’s Cubist Spanglish,” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 48:2 (August 2015): 224–42.
“Jiménez, Modernism/o, and the Languages of Comparative Modernist Studies,” Comparative Literature 66:1 (Winter 2014): 127–47.
“Restaging the Disaster: Dos Passos and National Literatures after the Spanish-American War,” Journal of Modern Literature 36:2 (Winter 2013): 61–79.
“1616, Bilingual Modernism, and Anglo-Spanish Literary History,” Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 4:1 (2013): 100–110.
“El cosmopolitismo de Ortega: Kant, nacionalismo y el intelectual contemporáneo estadounidense,” trans. Sebastián Urli, Revista de Estudios Orteguianos 26 (2013): 79–99.
“Joyce and the Spanish Ulysses,” Modernism/modernity 19:2 (April 2012): 255–75.
“The Circulation of Interwar Anglophone and Hispanic Modernisms,” in The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms, ed. Mark Wollaeger (New York: Oxford UP, 2012), 461–77.
Interview and profile of Ben Lerner, Contemporary Literature 54:2 (Summer 2013): 219–38.
“Is the Spanish Language White?”, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 14, 2013: B1, 8.
“James Joyce in His Labyrinth” (translation, preface, and annotations to Antonio Marichalar, “James Joyce en su laberinto” [1924]), Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA) 124:3 (May 2009): 926–38.Research Interests
History of ideas; global modernisms; comparative literature; empire; translation theory; critical history; English, American, and Spanish literatures; speculation and speculative fiction
Research Interests
History of ideas; global modernisms; comparative literature; empire; translation theory; critical history; English, American, and Spanish literatures; speculation and speculative fiction
