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Noah Bendzsa

Noah Bendzsa
Contact Information
Email address: 
noah.bendzsa [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Group: 
Doctoral Students
Stream: 
Cultural Studies
Specialization by geographical area: 
United States
Specialization by time period: 
19th-Century
20th-Century
21st-Century
Area(s): 
Archives & Bibliography
Book History
Critical Theory
Areas of interest: 

American Studies; US intellectual and cultural history; the history of Marxism and Left movements; the history of criticism; Fredric Jameson

Biography: 

Noah Bendzsa is a PhD candidate in English at McGill University. He is an intellectual and cultural historian of the United States. His research focuses on the history of criticism and the history of leftist thought since the nineteenth century. His SSHRC-supported dissertation is a reception history of the cultural critic Fredric Jameson.

Degree(s): 

PhD (cultural studies) Carnegie Mellon, 2023-2025 (no degree)
B.A. (Hons.) Carleton University, 2022

Selected publications: 

“An Interview with David Halperin,” Scrivener Creative Review 47, no. 1 (Dec. 2025): 20-30.

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 

SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, 2025-2028
Annette K. Baxter Travel Grant, American Studies Association, 2026
McGill Graduate Excellence Award, 2026
Cecile Parrish Memorial Scholarship, Monash University, 2023 (doctoral, declined)
Canadian Graduate Scholarship—Master’s, 2023 (declined)
Senate Medal, Carleton University, 2022

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