Deak Nabers

Deak Nabers teaches English at Brown University. He is the author of Victory of Law: The Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment, and American Literature, 1852-1866. His current book project, entitled The Martial Imagination, examines the impact of nuclear weapons on postwar American liberalism and the rise of postmodernism. He is one of the founders of Post•45, the preeminent academic society devoted to the study of later twentieth-century American literature and culture, and he sits on the board of its journal and its book series