Biography
Professor of English, Director of the Kutztown University Honors Program, and co-coordinator of the KU-Ireland study abroad program, Dr. Andrew Vogel's research concentrates on American road stories in the Progressive Era. His book, Narrating a New Mobility Landscape in the Modern American Road Story, 1893-1921: Ambivalence and Aspiration, was published in 2024 in the Palgrave Macmillian Mobility Studies series. It examines the way road stories altered American geography at the turn of the twentieth century, establishing serious social justice and environmental consequences that we contend with to this day. A portion of it covering Hamlin Garland and the agrarian reform of American road policy was published in Studies in American Naturalism, spring 2011. A spin off from the book situates Theodore Dreiser’s A Hoosier Holiday within the political negotiations over good roads that took place in 1915, leading to the unprecedented National Aid Road legislation of 1916. This article was published in a special issue of Studies in Travel Writing that considers travel writing and the car. He has written a chapter on race, passing, and the American Dream in American Dream from Salem Press’s Critical Insight’s series, an article on Walt Whitman’s associations with the Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, and an article exploring Gertrude Stein’s geographic imagination appeared in EAPSU online. An examination of the intertextual exchanges between jazz poetry and music was published in Harlot of the Arts online, and he also published an article that demonstrates the relationship between Beat writers’ use of bathetic humor and the influence of Walt Whitman’s romantic idealism in American Studies. A book chapter contrasting John A. Williams' and John Steinbeck's coverage of the Civil Rights movement in road books produced in the early 1960s is forthcoming in an edited collection on multi-ethnic American travel writing with Bloomsbury Press, and he's working on a chapter on mobility in the Gaelic cultural revival of the late 19th century for a forthcoming handbook of mobility studies in the humanities with Oxford University Press.
Vogel also writes poetry. His work has appeared most recently in Poetry East, Hunger Mountain, Crab Creek Review, The Briar Cliff Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Cider Press Review, the Valparaiso Poetry Review, and the Roanoke Review.
