joshua gang/associate professor of English/affiliate faculty in Philosophy
University of California, Berkeley

My research and teaching focus on literature's relations to key problems in philosophy--from philosophy of mind and moral philosophy in particular—as well as twentieth century British and Irish literature and the history of criticism. Occasionally I write about film and queer theory, too.

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My book Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2021 (Hopkins Studies in Modernism). And my essay "Derek Jarman and Everything That Is the Case" was published in Critical Inquiry in 2022. Additional work has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, journals such as ELH, Modern Philology, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, PMLA, and Twentieth Century Literature. A complete list of publications (with links) will be uploaded to this website sometime during Summer 2025.

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I am currently working on a new project tentatively titled, Beautiful Errors: Moral Philosophy, Modern Fiction, and the Appeal to Aesthetics.​

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You can email me at "jsgang" followed by an at-symbol, followed by the name of my employer, and then ".edu." I don't really use social media, but when I do, it's under the name "categorymistake."