Vogel to Host Fall 2026 Chambliss Faculty Lecture Oct. 21

KUTZTOWN, Pa. – Kutztown University is proud to host an engaging and interactive lecture by Dr. Andrew Vogel, professor of English, for Kutztown University's Fall 2026 Chambliss Faculty Lecture 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, 183 McFarland Student Union.

Vogel has been a professor at KU since 2007, was chair of the English department from 2012-20 and became the KU Honors Program director in 2023.

The title of Vogel's presentation is "Mobility in the Irish Ireland Movement." In late 19th-century Ireland, storytelling became a driving force in the fight for freedom from colonial oppression. Travel was the basis of these stories. Emerging writers of the Irish Literary Revival like Augusta Gregory, William Butler Yeats and John Millington Synge explored Ireland, learned Irish-Gaelic, collected native stories and translated them for both page and stage, fueling the independence movement with ideas that redefined the ways Ireland experiences and navigates national space.

Since Vogel began at KU, his book was published in 2024, “Narrating a New Mobility Landscape in the Modern American Road Story, 1893-1921: Ambivalence and Aspiration.” The book has received endorsements from several top researchers and international experts in the field of mobility studies. The book has also been endorsed by scholars in American Modernism for its contributions in that field.

Vogel's book became possible through the PASSHE Faculty Professional Development Fund. The fund supported his travel to Detroit, where he spent time in the National Automotive History Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Transportation History Achieve at the University of Michigan and the Benson Ford Research Center at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. The grant also supported him to review archival records at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

He has also published multiple scholarly articles including ones in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Studies in American Naturalism, Studies in Travel Writing, The Critical Insights collection and American Studies that are prominent in his field.

Vogel's poems have been published in both national and international publications including Poetry East, White Wall Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Roanoke Review, Crab Creek, California Quarterly and Evergreen.

His research has been presented at conferences held at the Sorbonne in Paris, Princeton University, the Institute for Regional Geography in Leibniz and the Bloomsday Centenary James Joyce conference in Dublin, Ireland. He has been involved with the KU faculty-led study abroad program in Ireland since 2018 and won a PASSHE Faculty Professional Development Fund to study the Irish language in immersion programs in Ireland.