Short biography
Stephen Schryer recently completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Irvine. His essay, "Fantasies of the New Class: The New Criticism, Harvard Sociology, and the Idea of the University" appeared in the May 2007 issue of PMLA. He has also contributed to Paper Empire: William Gaddis and the World System, edited by Joseph Tabbi and Rone Shavers. His manuscript-in-progress explores the idea of the new class in post-World War II American Fiction and consensus sociology.