Christopher Vials

Christopher Vials is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where he also serves as Director of American Studies. He is the author of Haunted by Hitler: Liberals, the Left, and the Fight against Fascism in the United States (2014), for which he was recently interviewed on NPR and CBC Radio. He is also author of Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and US Culture 1935-1947 (2009), and his work has appeared in the Journal of Asian American Studies...See more

Christopher Vials is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where he also serves as Director of American Studies. He is the author of Haunted by Hitler: Liberals, the Left, and the Fight against Fascism in the United States (2014), for which he was recently interviewed on NPR and CBC Radio. He is also author of Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and US Culture 1935-1947 (2009), and his work has appeared in the Journal of Asian American Studies, Criticism, Science and Society, and other venues. See less